admin | June 29, 2020
I am fascinated by how quickly people adapt their behaviors. The virus has made everyone nervous and willing to do almost anything to change, to get back to the old normal. For those of us who are Orthodox, we are not about to give up going to minyan
admin | June 28, 2020
Members of the Merkaz Ha-Iyr congregation.(Photo: David Schwartz/Special for The Republic) After 12 years of providing an "inclusive" space to celebrate Judaism, Phoenix's Merkaz Ha-Iyrsynagogue is formally disbanding Tuesday. Two members spoke to The Arizona Republic about their experience building the synagogue in 2008 and raising their children with its teachings, saying they feel nostalgic about its closure but grateful for the foundation it provided their families over the years. Alan Bayless Feldman's family was among the congregation's founding members.
admin | June 28, 2020
JTA Amid the nationwide movement to take down memorials to Confederacy figures, two Charlotte synagogues are calling for the removal of a downtown monument to Judah Benjamin, a Jewish politician who served as a cabinet member for the Confederate government. The names of the two synagogues, the Reform Temple Beth El and the Conservative Temple Israel, are featured on the gravestone-like monument, though the synagogues never approved of the memorial. A joint letter from the presidents of both synagogue to their congregations published online last week explains that the memorial, installed in 1948, was the idea of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
admin | June 28, 2020
If youve ever heard the phrase flatten the curve, you have Dr. Howard Markel to thank
admin | June 28, 2020
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admin | June 28, 2020
The very night Rebecca Novick and her husband, Avi, settled into their new home in Long Beach a little more than a week ago, they received a welcoming they did not expect: the young new rabbi in Long Beach, Benny Berlin, was at their front door with a traditional Shabbat dinner of chicken and pasta. "It was really good," said Rebecca, a 32-year-old occupational therapist. "We were so touched by how warm and welcoming it all was.
admin | June 28, 2020
Speaker 1:Reveal is supported by Everlane. When you're staying at home for an extended period of time, 24/7 pajamas just won't cut it.
admin | June 28, 2020
On the last day of Passover last year, a young nursing student went into the Chabad of Poway synagogue and shot four people, killing 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye. The accused murderers manifesto was filled with anti-Semitic sentiments, but it also contained another element: The shooters wish that his actions would lead the government to start confiscating guns, and thus provoke a civil war between white nationalists and everyone else. If this revolution doesnt happen soon, we wont have the numbers to win it, the alleged murderer wrote
admin | June 28, 2020
For years, Saudi Arabia worked tirelessly to export Wahhabism, its home-grown strain of intolerant Islam, to Muslim communities worldwide. It poured many billions of dollars into funding mosques, schools, and cultural organizations that promoted Islamist extremism an extremism capable of turning murderous, as Americans learned on Sept. 11, 2001, when 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists, 15 of them Saudi citizens, murdered thousands of people.
admin | June 28, 2020
Synagogues across England will be permitted to reopen for prayer and to hold services from next month, Prime minister Boris Johnson said today. As of 4 July, places of worships in England will also be able to reopen for wedding services with a maximum of 30 guests, subject to social distancing, in the governments latest easing of lockdown rules. Mr Speaker, I know that many have mourned the closure of places of worship and this year Easter, Passover and Eid all occurred during the lockdown, Johnson told the House of Commons on Tuesday
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