admin | September 19, 2020
Debbie Frimet blows the shofar at Temple Beth Chai By Jill Fox The apples and honey are there, but something will be missing during this Jewish New Yearthe congregation. Parkland temples have been busily preparing for something very different, as COVID-19 continues to keep worshipers away
admin | September 19, 2020
It happened at 1:30 A.M. A new email landed in my inbox, with the subject: Hello Joshua Breiner, attached is a travel permit for a shofar blower [prayer leader]. I havent managed to fall asleep since.
admin | September 15, 2020
When is a door not a door? Well, if youre a member of Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland and are tasked with helping to make a community eruv, or boundary used on Shabbat, you have to get creative
admin | September 15, 2020
(JTA) Jerusalems Great Synagogue will be closed during the High Holidays for the first time since it opened more than 60 years ago. In a statement on Sunday, the synagogue cited the risk of worshippers passing the coronavirus to others.
admin | September 15, 2020
(September 15, 2020 / JNS) After 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.
admin | September 15, 2020
Sept. 14, 2020 By Allie Griffin A Queens resident launched a petition Sunday to protect a Rego Park synagogue, a diner and a group of small businesses from the wrecking ball. A developer who owns the triangular lot at 98-81 Queens Blvd.
admin | September 15, 2020
The United Synagogue has said it is amazed at how quickly synagogues have adapted to government guidance on what Jews can and cant do during this months High Holy Days. If follows the issuance of detailed rules on Monday to ensure that Jewish gatherings over the festive season including for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot limit the spread of coronavirus, after consultation with Public Health England.
admin | September 15, 2020
Morning prayer service (Shacharit) in Fair Lawn takes place at the back of Congregation Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn on 09/10/20.
admin | September 15, 2020
Rabbi Lazarow said usually there would be 1800 people at Saturday morning services, a choir of 30 people and six or seven people leading the main service.
admin | September 13, 2020
Sixty five years after mobs in Istanbul killed dozens, destroyed thousands of stores and homes and sought to eradicate the Greek minority in Turkey, commemorations are taking place. This was the often forgotten 1955 pogrom, one that conjures up memories of attacks on Jews across Eastern Europe in previous eras.The attacks targeted Greeks and other minorities, including Jews and Armenians. It was part of the nationalist extremism that underpinned what was then an ostensibly secular Turkey
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