admin | February 1, 2021
Boca Raton, FL As the old saying goes, cleanliness is next to godliness. Thats why two faith-based organizations in Boca Raton, Florida Bnai Torah Congregation and St. Gregorys Episcopal Church have joined together to offer a critical service to those in the community who need it most.
admin | February 1, 2021
Rachel B. Gross can pinpoint the exact moment the idea for her book was planted.
admin | February 1, 2021
When Rabbi Shneor Zalman Schneersohn first arrived as the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in the small town of Rovno, western Ukraine, in 2004, he didnt think much of the ancient synagogue where he took up his position as the towns lone rabbi. Known as Rovne in Yiddish, Rovno in Russian, and today, in Ukrainian, as Rivne, the town had once been the thriving heartland of the heavily Jewish Volhynia region. But for Schneersohn and his wife, Rachel, there was too much work to do reviving Jewish life to focus on history.
admin | February 1, 2021
At the beginning of Kabbalat Shabbat last week, I walked into the womens section at an out of town shul and found it filled with men. One man had his two young children with him and was sitting on a couch in the back of the womens section with his legs spread out into the aisle so I had to step over them to get to my assigned seat. Another was davening mincha in the back, I assume out of respect for the rabbi who was giving a shiur in the mens section before Shabbat davening
admin | February 1, 2021
Lincoln used to be the home of a substantial Jewish community who came over to the UK during the Norman Conquest. This community stayed in Lincoln until the expulsion of the Jews in England in 1290. Just over 700 years passed by until a new, smaller, Jewish community was established in the city.
admin | February 1, 2021
BURLINGTON, Vt. At This Place in History were in Burlington with Executive Director of the Vermont Historical Society Steve Perkins. Were standing on the steps of Ohavi Zedek Synagogue on Prospect Street in Burlington.
admin | February 1, 2021
I had come to Paris in 1980 with the grandiose objective to contain antisemitism. Little did I foresee its nature. On 3 October, the eve of Sukkot (Tabernacles), I was visiting an Israeli journalist, Tamar Cohen.
admin | February 1, 2021
67-year-old Lebanese-Canadian Hassan Diab is accused of blowing up a synagogue in Paris on October 3rd, 1980 in an attack that killed four people and injured 46. Diab, a former University of Ottawa sociology professor was extradited to France from Canada in 2014. In 2018, he was released due to a lack of convincing evidence against him.
admin | February 1, 2021
Video above: White supremacist images culminate at Capitol riotSecretary-General Antonio Guterres urged coordinated global action on Monday to build an alliance against the growth and spread of neo-Nazism and white supremacy and the resurgence of xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and hate speech sparked partly by the COVID-19 pandemic.The U.N. chief also urged international action to fight propaganda and disinformation.
admin | February 1, 2021
(January 27, 2021 / JNS) The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man on surveillance video last year vandalizing a synagogue and Chabad House in Huntsville, Ala. Swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted on Etz Chayim Conservative Synagogue in the wee hours of the morning on April 9 as Jews around the world were observing the start of Passover. The next night, similar graffiti was painted on Chabad of Huntsville
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