admin | June 24, 2020
Image by iStock As our nation recovers from the challenges of the last few months, your ministry has an opportunity to amplify your mission and support the people you serve.
admin | June 24, 2020
As COVID-19 swept across the Navajo Nation this year, one member of the Navajo Nation Council turned to a community he knew would step up to help: Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County, his familys synagogue in the Washington, D.C., area. Beth El stepped up to be a fiscal sponsor, to be a nonprofit that can accept donations
admin | June 24, 2020
The Jewish Home at Rockleigh has seen many changes over the last several months as it adapts to the limitations imposed by the novel coronavirus. Now, according to Sunni Herman, its executive vice president, it is a time of healing
admin | June 24, 2020
Photo by nevermindtheend Dear PoPville, I wanted to see if you could post something about a disturbing assault I witnessed yesterday. Ive seen others post about recent random attacks on joggers and pedestrians in DC
admin | June 22, 2020
Before the Coronavirus my first appointment of every day was attending the 6:45 am minyan (service) at my synagogue.
admin | June 22, 2020
This striking photo, taken in 1915, shows the Rue Castara in Lunville, France, where Rabbi Ernest Weill was murdered, along with other Jewish and non-Jewish civilians, by Bavarian soldiers during World War One. The tragic event took place at this very location in 1914. The accompanying text of the photo also points out that we can see, on the left, the skeletons of the synagogue of Lunville, left in ruins after an arson attack.
admin | June 22, 2020
JTA About 15 years ago, a large synagogue in northern California installed a set of windows in the religious school engraved with the names of some 175 prominent Jews, from biblical figures to famous actors. One of them, sandwiched between Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, was Judah Benjamin, the most prominent Jewish official in the Confederacy. Benjamin, who enslaved 140 people on a Louisiana sugar plantation, served variously as the Confederate attorney general, secretary of war and secretary of state
admin | June 22, 2020
Securing Jewish institutions has rarely been this complicated: Theres the question of reopening, a spike in anti-Semitic activity online which security experts worry could translate to physical attacks and the pressing national conversation about racism in policing, and the Jewish communitys relationship to police.
admin | June 22, 2020
Plans to convert a historic synagogue and court building built in the 1860s into the Augusta Jewish Museum are moving along, with a first phase expected to open by December. Historic Augusta and the Augusta Jewish Museum Board commemorated the start of construction Wednesday to convert the former Richmond County Court of Ordinary building into Phase 1 of the museum
admin | June 22, 2020
Just a few faint traces remain of Kitcheners old Jewish neighbourhood on Madison Avenue South. But the solid brown-brick building that used to be the synagogue still stands on the hill, with rounded arches over the windows and door. The building is now the Crkva Bozja Church of God.
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