admin | July 29, 2020
Across the room sat a man, a murderer, who had tried to kill me and 51 others praying in the Halle Synagogue last Yom Kippur. Responding to question after question from the judge, he espoused the most hateful ideology, showing no shame at his open contempt and cruel rhetoric toward Muslims and Jews, people of Arab and Turkish descent, Black people, women even other white people who didnt support his cause. This man displayed in open court that he was exactly who we thought he was.
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admin | July 29, 2020
A suspected neo-Nazi based in Sacramento who was the subject of a July 24 Huffington Post article linking him to the vandalism of a synagogue has been under investigation for about three weeks by the county sheriffs department, J. has learned.
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admin | July 29, 2020
LONDON (JTA) Jersey is one of Britains most unusual places an autonomous island closer to France than to mainland England, a tax haven for Londons superrich and the last remnant of the English crowns Norman domains.
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admin | July 29, 2020
National-World Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) The oldest member of Shaarie Torah, a Portland synagogue, turned 100 years old on Sunday. Because of the pandemic, friends and neighbors got creative in celebrating Frida Gass Cohen and organized a surprise drive-by birthday parade for her.
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admin | July 29, 2020
Houses of worship are continuing to evolve in their offerings for worship services and programming since Phase 2 of Gov. Charlie Bakers reopening plan that allows them to open their doors.
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admin | July 29, 2020
Most events in the Jewish calendar revolve around celebration, but Tisha B'Av this Wednesday and Thursday (July 29 and 30) takes on a more mournful tone. With Surrey's largest Jewish community, Weybridge is home to North West Surrey Synagogue where this event is being marked this year with a live stream alongside other synagogues instead of face to face services.
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admin | July 25, 2020
LONDON Jersey is one of Britains most unusual places an autonomous island closer to France than to mainland England, a tax haven for Londons superrich and the last remnant of the English crowns Norman domains. But Jersey is also home to a rare non-urban British Jewish community with a unique history forged in the face of the Nazi occupation during World War II the only German occupation of any UK territory. These days, though, the community, with a formal membership of only 49 and an average age of over 70, has had to negotiate the coronavirus crisis as its membership continues to shrink
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admin | July 25, 2020
BERLIN (JTA) Across the room sat a man, a murderer, who had tried to kill me and 51 others praying in the Halle Synagogue last Yom Kippur.
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admin | July 25, 2020
"The air over Jerusalem is saturated with prayers and dreams like the air over industrial cities," wrote Yehuda Amichai, one of the city's beloved poets, in 1980. "It's hard to breathe." Now it's hard to pray. In the historic walled Old City, the beating heart of a place sacred to millions around the world, a second wave of the coronavirus has challenged devout communities to rethink how to pray safely
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admin | July 25, 2020
(JTA) For the rabbis and cantor of Congregation Beth Shalom in Northbrook, Illinois, the to-do list to prepare for the unprecedented online-only High Holidays season was long.
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