admin | April 11, 2024
One of Britains best-known rabbis, Dr Jonathan Romain, is to retire from the pulpit in summer after more than 40 years as spiritual leader of Maidenhead Synagogue. The author of 19 books and a regular voice on broadcast media, he will take up his new position as convenor of the Reform Beit Din at the end of July, before he turns 70 the following month
admin | April 11, 2024
Antisemitic attacks in Germany and elsewhere have surged since the start of the Israel Hamas war on 7 October. An incendiary device was thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany on Friday but caused only minor damage, police said. The incident in the city of Oldenburg happened early Friday afternoon
admin | March 21, 2024
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admin | March 21, 2024
Firefighters rescued 11 Torah scrolls early on Monday morning from a synagogue that went up in flames in the central Israel city of Kfar Saba. No one was hurt, but the building suffered serious damage
admin | March 21, 2024
BERLIN Germany says it has summoned the Iranian ambassador over an attempted arson attack on a synagogue in 2022 that Berlin believes was planned with the help of Tehran. A German-Iranian national was in December sentenced to two years and nine months in prison over the plot to attack a synagogue in the western German city of Bochum. The 36-year-old, identified only as Babak J., had planned to target the synagogue but ended up throwing an incendiary device at an adjacent school building
admin | March 21, 2024
(March 20, 2024 / Orthodox Union) Rabbi Adir Posy knows firsthand about the joys and challenges of being heavily involved in a synagogue; the national director of the Orthodox Unions Pepa and Rabbi Joseph Karasick Department of Synagogue Initiatives also serves as the associate rabbi at Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills, Calif. He says it is no secret that shul life can be both rewarding and stressful at times, particularly for shul administrators
admin | March 21, 2024
Shir Ami Reform Synagogue of Newtown collected 31,174 pounds of food for eight local hunger relief agencies during 2023. Not only does this collection help people experiencing food insecurity, it also supports the synagogues Code Blue initiative, where the congregation housed homeless persons overnight during extremely cold nights in the month of December. Marc Luber, Shir Ami board member and food insecurity chairperson, expressed his gratitude to the congregation and the community stating, Our local community came through in a big way with food donations over the past year
admin | March 21, 2024
A crash left a car in a very tight space Friday in Brookline, Massachusetts. The vehicle ended up on its side and wedged in an alley next to Temple Beth Zion, a synagogue on Beacon Street.
admin | March 21, 2024
By DAVID CRARY, Associated Press Purimis widely depicted as the most thoroughly joyful of Jewish holidays highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits, noisemakers and varying degrees of rowdiness. It celebrates the biblical story of how a plot to exterminate Jews in Persia was thwarted, and thus is embraced as an affirmation of Jewish survival throughout history. For many Jews, it will have extra significance this year during awar in Gazatriggered by the Oct.
admin | March 21, 2024
(March 19, 2024 / JNS) Questions surround the destruction of the Chevra Anshei Lubawitz synagogue in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. On Sunday, after years of legal challenges, demolition began on the synagogue that was built in 1907. The heavens are trembling, said Yaacov Behrman, president of the Jewish Future Alliance, according to ABC7 New York.
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