admin | October 28, 2020
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) The results are in from the American Jewish Committees very first public survey asking people if theyre familiar with the term anti-Semitism. The people who live in Squirrel Hill know hate and anti-Semitism all too well as Tuesday marks two years since the attacks inside the Tree of Life synagogue
admin | October 28, 2020
Instead of hundreds of community members gathering together at a starting line for Friendship Circle of Clevelands 11th annual My Walk 4 Friends, more than 500 people created their own 2-mile route to separately participate in the organizations annual fundraiser Oct. 25
admin | October 28, 2020
AMSTERDAM (JTA) Jews share of the population of Europe is as low now as it was 1,000 years ago and is declining even further, according to a landmark new demographic study. The study published Wednesday by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research found 1.3 million people who describe themselves as Jewish in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Russia. That figure has declined by nearly 60% since 1970, when there were 3.2 million Jews in the same area, wrote the reports authors, Daniel Staetsky and Sergio DellaPergola.
admin | October 16, 2020
The restoration of the Kadavumbhagam synagogue at Mattancherry, which was a place of worship for the Malabari Jews, is caught in a tussle between the State Department of Archaeology and local residents. After a portion of the roof of the synagogue and its facade collapsed last year, the Archaeology Department had decided to erect a temporary roof to prevent the structure from crumbling further and avert an erasure of history
admin | October 16, 2020
Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York City In the months that followed New Yorks COVID-19 shutdown, Rabbi Marc Schneier of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach set four goals for himself and his leadership teamto make The Hampton Synagogue the first major synagogue in the state to reopen, to launch their own television platform and build a global congregation, to adapt their annual Jewish film festival into a drive-in format at Gabreski Airport, and to continue the Jewish author discussion series in-person. He and his team managed to accomplish each of these goals, complying with all COVID-19 guidelines without compromising the quality and authenticity of programs offered. In addition to reopening his own synagogue in May, Schneier was appointed to advise Governor Andrew Cuomo on how to best reopen all churches, mosques and synagogues in New York
admin | October 14, 2020
News 12 Staff Oct 09, 2020, 10:18pm EDT Updated on:Oct 09, 2020, 10:18pm EDT There are concerns about compliance in the Village of Kiryas Joel, a state-designated red zone with a COVID-19 infection rate close to 30%. Outside of Kiryas Joel's main synagogue on Garfield Road on Friday, there were cars lined along the street, a packed parking lot, white sheets covering windows, and worshipers going in and out of the building. Under the new state orders that began Friday, no mass gatherings are allowed and houses of worship are restricted to 10 people at a time.
admin | October 14, 2020
HERAT, -- Afghanistans western province of Herat was once home to a thriving Jewish community that has now all but vanished from the region. Its monuments and properties have either fallen into disrepair or disappeared completely, and murky rules of tenure and stewardship of historical sites have left officials and residents arguing over their fate
admin | October 14, 2020
I am not a rabbi but am I proud of my colleagues who are. Along with cantors, soloists, educators, executive directors, board donors and laypeople in hundreds of congregations and spiritual communities, they pulled off one of the most extraordinary historic pivots in synagogue life.
admin | October 7, 2020
(JNS) Judah Samet has been on the front lines of history more than once. A survivor of Bergen-Belsen and a former Israeli paratrooper, the 82-year-old also lived through the mass shooting at the Tree of Life*Or LSimcha synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Oct
admin | September 27, 2020
Professor William Miles, who wrote The Rabbi of Timbuktu, will speak at an event held by Cantons Bnai Tikvah Adult Education at 8 p.m. Oct. 16 via Zoom
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