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NEW YORK (Press Release) The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday, March 2, condemned the vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in Rochester, NY. At least 16 headstones were toppled in the Waad Hakolel Cemetery in Rochester, also known as the Stone Road Cemetery, which has been in use by the local Jewish community since the 1920s.

In response to this crime, ADL is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the desecration.

Although it remains unclear if the attack was motivated by anti-Semitism, it was the third incident targeting Jewish cemeteries in the last two weeks. Burial grounds in the Philadelphia and St. Louis areas have been similarly vandalized with toppled headstones and other damage.

We are deeply disturbed by the vandalism committed against the Jewish communitys cemetery in Rochester, said Evan R. Bernstein, ADL New York Regional Director. Coming on the heels of two other similar attacks on Jewish cemeteries in other cities, it is that much more troubling, and we hope authorities can bring the perpetrators to justice and send a message that this kind of behavior is simply unacceptable.

ADL is in contact with the Rochester Jewish Community and has offered its full support and communal security resources.

The attack comes amid a climate of rising anti-Semitism around the country, and at a time when more than 120 Jewish Community Centers across the country have received telephone bomb threats.

ADL urges anyone with information on this crime to report it immediately to the Rochester Area Crime Stoppers at 585-423-9300.

In related news, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has produced an online resource to help parents, families and educators discuss the recent wave of bomb threats and evacuations affecting Jewish Community Centers and day schools with young children and teens.

The ADL resource, Five tips for talking with children about bomb threats at Jewish community centers provides educators, caregivers and family members with tools to help children understand the incidents and to have an open conversation about bias and prejudice that puts the incidents into perspective.

After more than 120 bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and day schools leading to the evacuation of children and the elderly, anxiety levels are high and children in the affected communities are asking tough questions, said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO. This resource offers practical guidance to parents who need to reassure their children without dismissing valid concerns about the recent series of threats and about rising anti-Semitism more generally.

The online resource was created by anti-bias education experts in ADLs award-winning A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Institute, which works with educators, parents and caregivers through the Leagues network of 27 regional offices to help young people deal with issues of anti-Semitism and prejudice in their schools and communities.

The five recommended ADL strategies for parents and educators include:

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A window is pictured with the Star of David in a new synagogue in Cottbus, Germany. (photo credit:REUTERS)

A regional court in Germany has decided that a brutal attempt to set fire to a local synagogue in 2014 was an act meant to express criticism against Israels conduct in its ongoing conflict with Hamas.

A German regional court in the city of Wuppertal affirmed a lower court decision last Friday stating that a violent attempt to burn the citys Bergische Synagogue by three men in 2014 was a justified expression of criticism of Israels policies.

Johannes Pinnel, a spokesman for the regional court, explained the courts decision regarding the three German Palestinians who sought to firebomb the Wuppertal synagogue in July 2014. The court said in its 2015 decision that the three men wanted to draw attention to the Gaza conflict with Israel and deemed the attack not to be motivated by antisemitism.

Israel launched Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014 to stop Hamas rocket attacks into Israeli territory.

The court sentenced the three men Muhammad E., 31, Ismail A., 26, and Muhammad A., 20 to suspended sentences for tossing firebombs at the synagogue. and causing 800 worth of damage.

The original synagogue in Wuppertal was burned by Nazis during the Kristallnacht pogroms in 1938.

Wuppertal has a population of nearly 344,000 and is located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The court noted that the men had consumed alcohol and there were no injuries to members of the synagogue.

A 13-year-old boy who lived near the synagogue and noticed the flames called the police. Several days before the fire, a person sprayed Free Palestine on one of its walls.

After the courts ruling, Volker Beck, a leading Green Party MP, said the attack on the synagogue was motivated by antisemitism and blasted the court for issuing a decision stating that the goal of the attack was to highlight the war in Gaza.

This is a mistaken decision as far as the motives of the perpetrators are concerned, he said, adding that the burning of a synagogue in Germany because of the Middle East conflict can be attributed only to antisemitism.

What do Jews in Germany have to do with the Middle East conflict? Every bit as much as Christians, non-religious people or Muslims in Germany, namely, absolutely nothing. The ignorance of the judiciary toward antisemitism is for many Jews in Germany especially alarming, said Beck.

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A fundraising page to support rebuilding the Islamic Center of Victoria, which was destroyed in a fire, reached more than $1 million by Wednesday afternoon. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle)

A fundraising page to support rebuilding the Islamic Center of Victoria, which was destroyed in a fire, reached more than $1 million by Wednesday afternoon. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle)

A week before the fire at the Islamic Center of Victoria, a vandal had painted "H8" (shorthand for hate) on the side of the building.

A week before the fire at the Islamic Center of Victoria, a vandal had painted "H8" (shorthand for hate) on the side of the building.

Mission Bend Masjid (Carlos Antonio Rios / Houston Chronicle)

Mission Bend Masjid (Carlos Antonio Rios / Houston Chronicle)

Masjid El-Farouq Islamic Center in Houston (Nick de la Torre / Chronicle)

Masjid El-Farouq Islamic Center in Houston (Nick de la Torre / Chronicle)

Islamic Education Center in West Houston (James Nielsen / Houston Chronicle)

Islamic Education Center in West Houston (James Nielsen / Houston Chronicle)

Islamic Education Center in West Houston (James Nielsen / Houston Chronicle)

Islamic Education Center in West Houston (James Nielsen / Houston Chronicle)

Islamic Da' wah Center in downtown Houston (Melissa Phillip / Houston Chronicle)

Islamic Da' wah Center in downtown Houston (Melissa Phillip / Houston Chronicle)

Masjid al Mustafa Mosque in West Houston (Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle)

Masjid al Mustafa Mosque in West Houston (Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle)

Muslim Student Assocation at the A.D. Bruce Religion Building at the University of Houston (Michael Paulsen / Chronicle)

Muslim Student Assocation at the A.D. Bruce Religion Building at the University of Houston (Michael Paulsen / Chronicle)

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community mosque in North Houston (Karen Warren / Chronicle)

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community mosque in North Houston (Karen Warren / Chronicle)

Islamic Da'wah Center in downtown Houston (Mayra Beltran / Chronicle)

Islamic Da'wah Center in downtown Houston (Mayra Beltran / Chronicle)

Clear Lake Education Center mosque (Johnny Hanson / Houston Chronicle)

Clear Lake Education Center mosque (Johnny Hanson / Houston Chronicle)

Maryam Masjid in Sugar Land (Eric Kayne / For the Chronicle)

Maryam Masjid in Sugar Land (Eric Kayne / For the Chronicle)

Muslim American Society's Katy Center. (Gary Fountain / For the Chronicle)

Muslim American Society's Katy Center. (Gary Fountain / For the Chronicle)

Texas town's synagogue hands keys to Muslim worshipers after mosque burns

VICTORIA After a fire destroyed this South Texas towns only mosque last weekend, Victorias sole Jewish temple handed over a set of keys to the Muslim worshippers.

A Jewish value is to love your neighbor as yourself, said Robert Loeb, 66, president of Bnai Israel Temple. So I think you have some responsibility when other people have some turmoil to help them out.

In a town of fewer than 80,000 where people can give telephone numbers without an area code, the offer was as simple as a man stopping by a friends house and turning over the keys to the synagogue.

Dr. Gary Branfman, a 61-year-old Jewish plastic surgeon, woke up Saturday morning to news that the Islamic Center of Victoria had burned down. From his house, he could see the flames that took firefighters four hours to extinguish.

"We're a pretty small city, so you could see it from everywhere," Branfman said.

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He drove the short distance to the mosque, where he saw the wreckage. He decided on the spot that he would drive to the house of the mosques president, Dr.Shahid Hashmi, a fellow surgeon who is a former neighbor and longtime friend.

The drive didnt take long. Branfman said Victoria residents joke that they can get anywhere in the city in eight minutes or less, unless theres a cow crossing the road.

Branfman pulled up to the Hashmi home in his white Land Rover with a Grateful Dead bumper sticker. He walked up to the familiar house, which features arches, tiles and other elements of Islamic architecture.

Hashmi, a 69-year-old general surgeon who serves as president of the Islamic center, returned home a few minutes later.

Branfman, a member of the Bnai Israel board, pulled out his set of temple keys. He had not yet asked the rest of the board for permission, but he was prepared to ask their forgiveness later. He left the keys in the hand of his old friend.

The move was natural in a place like Victoria.

"When you live in a town of 80,000, you know a lot of people," Loeb said. When their neighbors needed help, they weren't strangers. He added that several churches also offered to host Muslim worshipers, who for the time being plan to hold prayer services in a temporary building beside the burned-out mosque.

When you live in a town of 80,000, you know a lot of people, Loeb said. When their neighbors needed help, they werent strangers.

Several churches and an office building also offered to host the Muslim worshipers.

We appreciated everybodys offer, Hashmi said. It was nice, very nice.

For the time being, the mosque is using a portable building donated by a local school and placed beside the burned house of worship, board member Irfan Qureshi said.

Our prayers are very simple, he added. We really just need a clean place to put our forehead.

Members of the temple and mosque got acquainted during a series of interfaith events three or four years ago, Loeb said. People spent several Saturday afternoons visiting the mosque, the temple and a church to learn about each others faiths.

Christians and Jews have been among those to support the mosque as it makes plan to demolish the burned building and rebuild. A fundraising page to support the project raised more than $850,000 in 24 hours. By Wednesday it had raised more than $1 million.

The mosque had beena target of hatred several years ago and experienced a burglary just a week before the fire early Saturday , the Victoria Advocate reported, and the synagogue was the target of anti-Semitic graffiti 10 years ago.

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Saturday's fire was not the first incident at th
e two institutions. In 2013 teenage vandals spray-painted graffiti on the mosque, which was burglarized a week before the fire early Saturday, the Victoria Advocate reported, and the synagogue was the target 10 years ago of anti-Semitic graffiti.

A clerk at a convenience store spotted smoke and flames billowing from the Islamic Center of Victoria at around 2 a.m. No injuries were reported.

Victoria Fire Marshal Tom Legler asked for help from the Texas Fire Marshal's Office and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to determine what caused the blaze.

Andrew Kragie reported from Houston, Susan Carroll from Victoria.

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ROCKLIN -- A fire broke out early Saturday morning at a synagogue, located at the Chabad House Jewish Community Center along Douglas Boulevard in Granite Bay.

"They came in, they broke into the building, and they put out the fire, and they saved our Torah Scrolls," said Malkie, the JCC's education director.

Torah scrolls are considered the sacred foundation to the Jewish religion, which they say are like a blueprint, from which God created the world.

South Placer County firefighters entered the sanctuary and rescued the scrolls, housed in this arc, adorned by the Ten Commandments and the symbol above, which reads "You always stand before God."

"And we are grateful to the fire department for their ultra-sensitivity to our religion, as well as being such fast responders. Our local fire department. They're absolutely incredible," she said.

The inside may look pretty intact for the most part, although "everything was completely smoke damaged," Malkie said, including all the prayer books held by synagogue members during each service, along with the books of study.

The fire was so intense, it melted table cloths, leaving a dusty soot over everything.

Firefighter investigators say the fire was accidental, but just how it started is still being determined.

They know it likely began in the center of the synagogue, which left the circled area full of ashes.

But out of the this fire comes determination.

"We will rebuild the synagogue. We will restore it. It will be nicer than before," Malkie vowed.

Ironically, the structure itself was at one time, the area's fire station.

"Everything that happens is divine providence. God watches every step of the way," Malkie added. "We're so grateful that, thank God, nobody got hurt."

On Monday, the firefighters will be honored at 1:30 p.m., at the JCC, 4410 Douglas Boulevard in Granite Bay.

Everyone is welcome.

If you would like to help members rebuild their Synagogue, you can make donations to: http://www.JewishRoseville.com/FireRecovery

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The Adath BNai Israel Temple in Evansville, Indiana. (photo credit:FACEBOOK)

A gunshot was fired through a Hebrew school classroom window at an Indiana synagogue.

The bullet hole was discovered late Monday at Adath BNai Israel Temple in Evansville. The apparent attack was reported to police on Tuesday morning, according to reports.

Rabbi Gary Mazo told the Indianapolis Star that the shooter would have had to walk around to the back of the building and fire into the classroom from the playground. The attack is believed to have occurred on Sunday night.

Were in this climate now where acts of hate are happening everywhere, the rabbi told the newspaper.

The goal was to make us afraid, but were not going to let fear consume us. Well stand up to fear, well stand up to hatred and well stand together. We know this is not representative of our community. We know that we live in a community that supports each other.

The Evansville Police Department and the FBI are investigating the incident.

Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke visited the Conservative synagogue Tuesday morning and issued a statement condemning the attack and calling it a disgusting act of hate and bigotry that cannot be tolerated.

He added: Our community must come together in support of religious freedom and stand together with our Jewish brothers and sisters.

Indiana is one of five states that does not have a hate crimes law.

The incident occurred a day after proposed hate crimes legislation died in the Indiana state legislature and after the Indianapolis Jewish Community Center received a bomb threat, one of 28 JCCs and Jewish schools targeted that day across the country.

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FAIRFAX, VAGrowing increasingly exasperated at his inability to make himself heard, local man Alex Turner told reporters Wednesday that he was frustrated by the fact that he is unable to leave a hateful message for a local synagogue because the line is always tied up with other threats. I make it a point to call every morning, but why bother when you can never get through? said Turner, 38, adding that the line is so swamped by menacing calls that he often has to wait on hold half an hour to tell a synagogue staff member that Jews did not belong in his neighborhood, sometimes having to call back numerous times because he just receives a busy signal. Ive left a couple of messages on their voicemail, but Im not sure if they even listen to those, and its usually full anyway. Im sorry, but they should know by now to expect this kind of high call volume. At press time, an angry Turner decided he would just hang up the phone and deliver his message to the synagogue in person.

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New York Synagogue's Plans for New Building Move Forward Wall Street Journal (subscription) A long-delayed plan to put up a community house and condominium next to a historic synagogue on Central Park West got new life on Tuesday. New York City's Board of Standards and Appeals voted to approve a plan by Congregation Shearith Israel to put ...

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by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

March 1, 2017

A well-known joke told about the Jews describes a group of explorers who find a Jew who has been stranded on a desert island for years. As he takes them around the island and shows them how he survived, they find that he built two synagogues for himself. When asked why he needs two since he is all alone, he says that one is the one he prays in, and the other is the one he would never walk into.

All joking aside, while it is true that every Jew needs at least two houses of worship, he must enter both of them: his synagogue and his home.

Jewish worship takes place in the home to an even greater extent than in the synagogue. It is in the home that we recite grace after meals, prayers upon awakening and before bedtime, Shabbat candlelighting blessings, and countless informal prayers and benedictions. The synagogue, on the other hand, is the place for formal prayer and communal worship.

In this weeks portion, Terumah, we learn of the very first house of worship: the Mishkan, or Tabernacle. We also learn about some of the furnishings that were essential to its construction.

The first three components mentioned are the Ark, in which the tablets with the Ten Commandments are contained; the holy Table upon which 12 breads were placed every Sabbath; and the golden Menorah. These three vessels are also prominent features of both synagogue and home. Like the Tabernacle, every synagogue today has an ark housing the Torah scrolls.

Where is the analog of the Ark in ones private home? I maintain that the bookcase is the Ark of ones personal dwelling, ideally containing the entire Jewish Bible along with essential commentaries and classic Jewish texts.

A similar analogy applies too, with the table. A wooden table covered over with a layer of gold occupied a place of honor in the Tabernacle. The food kept there, the shew bread, was distributed to the priests on duty every Sabbath, symbolizing the divine blessings of sustenance.

Every synagogue has a bima that is analogous in many ways to that table, with the synagogues the place from which the Torah is read. In traditional synagogues, this table is not placed up front for spectators to behold, but in the middle of the sanctuary, among the people. The message is clear: it symbolizes Gods spiritual providence and bounty and as such is something of which every member of the congregation should partake.

The table in the home, equally sacred, is the place for physical nourishment. A beautiful Talmudic expression has it that the table is like an altar. Whereas the Jew of old expressed his ultimate sense of worship by offering a sacrifice upon the altar, the contemporary Jew worships God by sharing the food on his table with other individuals.

Finally, there was the golden Menorah, which beautified the historic tabernacle and later Beit HaMikdash. Just about every synagogue I ever attended features a menorah in a very conspicuous place. And Hanukkah menorot occupy a place of honor in even the humblest Jewish home.

There is a symbolism to the Menorah that is even more apt when applied to these two houses of worship. The Menorah symbolizes light; the light of wisdom, intellect. Our faith is largely based upon reason and is respectful of the power of the intellect. Thus, many commentators see a connection between the seven branches of the Menorah and the seven classical sciences, or categories of knowledge. The Torah is pre-eminently sacred, but other sources of wisdom have their place.

Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb is executive vice president emeritus of the Orthodox Union.

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By Julia Cabrera

New York The American Sephardi Federation (ASF) open its doors on March 30 for the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

The week long event features the rich history of the Sephardic Jewish Community across the globe through film, with specific nights dedicated to the Moroccan, Iraqi, Greek, and Yemenite Jewish communities.

The festival will shed light on the stories of Sephardic Jews from Baghdad to Greece, Ethiopia to Switzerland, and Israel to Iran. According to ASF representative Jennifer Zwiebel, this year will be the first time that the festival dedicates a full day of films to the unrevealed suffering of Sephardic Jews from Algeria, Tunisia, and Greece during the Holocaust. Sephardim in the Shoah, will be presented on Sunday, April 2, and From Ethiopia to Israel, on Tuesday, April 4, both themes will explore the challenges of emigration.

According to Zwiebel, the festival will also host on Monday, April 3 An Evening of Empowering Sephardi Women, showcasing films that highlight gender relations between Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities.

The Young Leadership Board at ASF, will host Love, Sephardi Style, on Tuesday, April 4, which will feature films that explore the Sephardic perspective on modern love and relationships. According to Zwiebel, a discussion will be held after the film with an award-winning Jewish Iranian-American filmmaker.

For this important NYSJFF 20th Anniversary Edition, we are proud to present poignant and powerful programs that speak to the issues of our time and all time, said Sara Nodjoumi, the Artistic Director of the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival to the ASF.

There are stories of immigration, persecution, and resistance. Perspectives on everything from the making of the modern Middle East to the modern experiences of finding romance in traditional Sephardi communities. The number of quality films this year is a sign of vitality and the increasing interest in the varied experiences of Sephardim.

Behind the scenes of the festival are Nodjoumi, who produced The Iran Job and is a programming alumna of the Tribeca Film Festival, as well as the festivals Producer French opera singer, David Serero, who created and starred in ASFs l theatrical season (Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Nabucco).

The Festival will take place at the ASF, located on 5 West 16th Street. The dates and times for each film during this years event have been released.

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Spanish authorities have reportedly dropped the requirement for Sephardi Jews aged 70 and over to take language and culture tests to qualify for Spanish citizenship.

Five hundred years after Jews were burned at the stake, forced to convert to Christianity or thrown out of the country, Spain passed legislation in October to allow the descendants of those who were expelled in 1492 to apply for Spanish citizenship.

Similar legislation exists for those whose ancestors were booted out of Portugal.

The decision to exempt elderly applicants, reported Monday by the El Pais newspaper, was made after it emerged that the tests were deterring hundreds of elderly Turkish Jews from exercising their right to a Spanish passport.

Until now, tests on Spanish language and heritage have been compulsory for all applicants, 4,919 of whom have been naturalized as Spaniards, the report said.

A tourist walking down the historic Jewish quarter of the town of Ribadavia in Spain, September 26, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Karen Gerson Sharon, coordinator of the Sephardic Center of Istanbul, in Turkey, said she was very happy the requirement had been waived for older applicants, although she said she would have preferred the age for test exemption to have been 65 rather than 70.

We are not a very young community, she told El Pais, adding that it was hard for elderly applicants with sight and hearing problems to cope with tests.

Gerson said the children of a friend of hers had applied for Portuguese citizenship granted under a similar law because that country does not demand exams. An 84-year-old Turkish woman had given up on the process because she was too old to travel and complete the paperwork in Spain, she said.

A register of blasphemers, heretics and Jews by the Holy Office of Toledo, Spain, 1632; Ink on paper. (Courtesy/ New Mexico History Museum)

Sephardi applications for Spanish citizenship have come from more than 100 countries, most of them Spanish-speaking, along with Morocco, Israel, Turkey, Pakistan and the US, El Pais reported.

Jews of Sephardi origin often still speak Ladino, a 15th century version of the language that bears little resemblance to modern Spanish.

The Spanish justice ministry expects an uptick in the number of Sephardi citizens given that more than 8,000 applicants have taken the language and heritage tests, the report said.

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