admin | September 21, 2020
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) Police are trying to track down a man accused of stealing more than $1,000 worth of construction tools from a synagogue in Brooklyn.
admin | September 21, 2020
Cultural anthropologist Alanna Cooper is undertaking a comprehensive study of the objects brought from buildings left behind as Clevelands Jewish congregations have migrated from their synagogue buildings in the center of the city to suburban locales. She was named one of four 2020-21 faculty fellows at Case Western Reserve Universitys Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship. Her grant is for a project entitled Digital Stores of Cleveland Synagogue Dispersion: Moving Pieces of Congregational Life
admin | September 21, 2020
TO THE EDITOR: In 2004, Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave the keynote address at the annual George Washington Letter Reading Ceremony at Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island. That year, we celebrated 350 years of Jewish Life in America. Justice Ginsburg was the sixth Jewish Justice on the U.S
admin | September 21, 2020
Renderings from Studio St Architects reveal a new 19-story tower located at 347 West 34th Street on the eastern edge of Hudson Yards, Manhattan. Described as a SynaCondo, the buildings typology will incorporate a portion of the existing West Side Jewish Center with a condominium volume above.
admin | September 21, 2020
At the Jewish Center on Manhattans Upper West Side, this years High Holidays will be anything but normal. With eight services happening in various spaces throughout the building, on the roof and in the street (closed off to facilitate services), approximately 400 people will gather for socially distanced and masked services at the Modern Orthodox synagogue.
admin | September 21, 2020
Roanoke's Beth Israel Synagogue celebrated Rosh Hashana with a possibly first-of-its-kind service in the congregation's more than 100-year history: an open-air celebration of the Jewish new year at Salem Memorial Baseball Stadium under a beautiful September sky on Sunday. It was the first time the congregation had been together since March, according to Rabbi Jamma Purser
admin | September 21, 2020
Photo Credit: screenshot {Reposted from the Sultan Knish website} fter an arson attempt at The Way Christian Church church in Berkeley, the pastor and the media blamed it on a racist who was lashing out at the churchs Black Lives Matter banner. McBride is now considering whether his decades long work challenging police brutality, registering people of faith to vote, or speaking out against white supremacy irritated the suspected arsonist, or whether they were angered by the Black Lives Matter sign hanging from the church, a press release from The Way Christian Church announced.
admin | September 21, 2020
VENTNOR Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport and his daughters, Ella, 12, and Chaya, 8, set up plastic chairs under a tent Friday afternoon in the courtyard at Chabad at the Shore Synagogue ahead of Rosh Hashana.
admin | September 21, 2020
Ebrahim Dahood Nonoo, the leader of Bahrains tiny Jewish community, was among the Gulf countrys approximately 50 Jews who thought peace with Israel would never arrive in our lifetimes.
admin | September 21, 2020
Planning for the Days of Awe, like planning for almost everything else in the first year of the novel coronavirus, involves preparing for surprises. This time, we might have to do things differently. The rabbis of several local congregations spoke with the Jewish News about how they plan to modify services to comply with the uneven progress of the pandemic, or with changed orders from Gov.
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