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Young Man Attempts Suicide At Synagogue Church
A member of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations attempted suicide in the church on Sunday during church service, an official of the Emmanuel Television said on Monday. According to Mr Ken,...
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Synagogue Building: Incident Will Not Affect Our Relations With Nigeria - SA High Commissioner Prt 1
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NATALIE POMPILIO, natalie@nataliepompilio.com Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 10:20 AM
THERE IS no "typical" Shabbat service at Society Hill Synagogue. One week, Rabbi Avi Winokur might include the works of Sufi mystics and Muslim spiritual giants. The next might feature writings by Christian leaders, noted intellectuals or Jewish religious thinkers.
One way the synagogue describes its open approach is by citing an old joke: "Two Jews, three opinions." That is to say, different people celebrate their faith in different ways.
"It's very eclectic," said Winokur, who has led the congregation for 13 years. "We are nondenominational, giving us freedom other synagogues don't have. It allows us to be innovative and traditional at the same time."
About 300 families strong, Society Hill is "quite a well-rounded place," the rabbi said. Besides being a place of worship, it's also a hub of activities centered on social justice and education.
"We're an urban synagogue," he said. "We believe that gives us a responsibility to act on behalf of the community in which we live."
Where we worship: Society Hill Synagogue is at 418 Spruce St. The building and facade of the historic, 190-year-old structure were designed by Thomas U. Walter, the architect behind the U.S. Capitol dome.
From 1829 to 1910, the building housed Spruce Street Baptist Church. In 1910, the Baptist congregation sold the property to a Jewish congregation that called the building the "Great Roumanian Shul." That name is still visible in Yiddish above the entrance.
Society Hill Synagogue acquired the building in 1967 and has since expanded into a neighboring building.
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Fate of a Historic Hoosier Synagogue is Uncertain
Kurt Hoffman
Northern Cardinal, State Bird of Indiana
This past Labor Day weekend we celebrated the 125th anniversary of a synagogue to the sounds of AC/DC, rumbling Harleys, and the Blake Shelton song, Kiss My Country Ass. The synagogue was none other than Ahavath Sholom, built in Ligonier in Noble County, Indiana in 1889, and the music, well, it was part of Ligoniers 22nd annual Marshmallow Festival going on nearby. For over 50 years, Ligonier was home to Kidd Marshmallow factory, which in a single week produced 20,000 cases of kosher marshmallows each February before being sold in 1996.
German Jews arrived in Ligonier in the 1850s as peddlers and quickly built up the downtown with dry goods shops, banks, real estate businesses, and even buggy and pump organ factories. Ligoniers Reform Jews held Sabbath and holiday services in the homes of prominent Jewish community members such as Solomon Mier and Jacob Straus. By the 1860s, the Jewish community grew to merit a small wooden synagogue and a cemetery. By the late 1800s, the Jewish community made up half of the business owners in town and 15% of the population numbering around 1,500. Many served as mayors and councilmen. In September 1889, the community built and dedicated the 1,430-square-foot Ahavath Sholom synagogue at 503 S. Main St. at the cost of $15,000.
I was born in 1979 on a farm in Noble County about 15 miles away from Ahavath Sholom; the closest Jewish community is over 40 miles away in Fort Wayne. Noble County is pretty much the same now as it was then. According to the 2010 census, there were 47,536 people living in this mostly farming county; 97% of the population is white. To this day, my parents still live on the farm-turned-vineyard where I grew up, and I would never trade my childhood for any cramped urban or sterile suburban upbringing.
But I had never heard about the Ahavath Sholom synagogue until I received a phone call from John Bry, who was the director of the Noble County Convention and Visitors Bureau, about five years ago. Word had somehow gotten out in the small community that a Noble County native had lived in Israel for a few years, received a masters in museum studies at George Washington University and just finished another masters in Jewish history at Brandeis. I received the call in Columbus, Ohio, where I now live.
Were thinking of painting a Jewish mural on the side of the synagogue, Bry said, and we need your help to determine what to paint. My heart sank. Not only was I just now finding out about a historic synagogue so close to my childhood home, but it was going to be painted before I even laid eyes on it. Ligonier, like many other towns in the Midwest, had decided to boost tourism in the area by commissioning murals on the sides of old buildings depicting the history of the area. Luckily, the Jewish mural never came to fruition but it was nonetheless my introduction to the building.
The first time I actually saw the synagogue, it was decorated with red bows and an evergreen garland for Christmas. My mother and I had signed up for the 2009 historic walking tour of Ligonier and Ahavath Sholom was one of the stops. As soon as I stepped inside, my love affair with the building began. The sanctuary was covered, wall-to-ceiling, with stuff. The Ligonier Historical Society had used every square inch of the sanctuary to hang and display their entire collection of objects. But through the grandmas attic atmosphere, I was blown away by the vibrant stained glass windows on the north, south and west sides of the sanctuary and awestruck by the wooden Aron Kodesh on the east side.
The red brick Victorian Gothic revival building boasts stained glass windows depicting three scenes of King Davids life, an ornately carved wooden Torah cabinet that protrudes out the back of the building in brick, and the original brass and opalescent glass lighting fixtures throughout. According to an article in the September 12, 1889, Ligonier Banner, the synagogue dedication was quite a celebration. Members carried the Torah scrolls from the old wooden synagogue down the street to the tunes of the Ligonier Military Band, and with uncovered heads, read a poem at the front steps that referenced peace, brotherhood, doing away with prejudices and fanaticism, and ended with this stanza:
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VINNY VELLA, Daily News Staff Writer vellav@phillynews.com, 215-854-2513 Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 12:16 AM
RABBI DAVID KUSHNER is having a rough start to the Jewish New Year.
"We're trying to look at this situation positively," Kushner, of Rhawnhurst, told the Daily News last night. "The year can only get better from here."
Early Thursday, his Ford Explorer was torched as it sat parked in the lot next to the Rodef Sholom Synagogue in Atlantic City, the rabbi said.
Kushner recently became the synagogue's rabbi, and had parked the SUV in the lot Wednesday night before conducting Rosh Hashanah services.
Officials haven't released an official report on the blaze, but Kushner said investigators told him that the fire is "suspicious."
Atlantic City authorities did not respond to requests for comment.
"I think someone picked the car because it was parked at the synagogue during worship," Kushner said. "It's almost impossible to say it was a coincidence."
Kushner said he lost some valuables in the fire, including equipment he uses as a volunteer Emergency medical technician in Monmouth County, N.J.
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Like White Ghosts in the Mikveh
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Clean Slate for Hashem: Frimet Goldberger wears the hand-embroidered cotton apron she received from her mother-in-law while lighting Sabbath candles.
On the top shelf of our living room buffet sit some of our once-a-year religious accoutrements: a Passover matzo set, a white tablecloth for the sukkah and a white apron. This is not your typical kitchen apron; it is my vase shirtsl literally, white apron: a small, square-shaped, hand-embroidered cotton apron made of fine threading and worn from the waist down, reaching a few inches above the knees. Every married Hasidic woman owns one. I received mine 11 years ago as one of the many customary gifts my future mother-in-law and khosn, fianc, gave me over the course of my six-month-long engagement. Hasidic women traditionally wear the vase shirtsl when lighting Sabbath candles, and I wore mine for the first time on a Friday night, four days after my wedding. I tied it around the waist of my favorite black velour Sabbath robe, and, siddur in hand, blessed the candles and my new home.
I wore the white apron on Yom Kippur, too, a reminder of the days pureness and its significance: a clean, white slate in the eyes of HaShem.
For the adults and boys aged 13 and older in Kiryas Joel, the Satmar village in upstate New York, Yom Kippur was a pensive holiday spent mostly at synagogue. Young girls would fast and pray from the age of 12, but our place was at home, tending to siblings, nieces and nephews, so that the women could attend services. Every Yom Kippur until I got married, I prayed and atoned for my sins while being surrounded by young children and their ravenous demands.
If quiet contemplation was the overall mood of Yom Kippur, white was the holidays color. After the white tablecloth was set, my mother unwrapped the cleaned and stiffly starched vase kitl, which is a white robe used as a burial shroud for male Jews, but also typically worn by married Hasidic men on Yom Kippur as well as during Passover Seders and under the chuppah when they get married. It serves as a symbolic reminder that a person is but flesh and bone, a mortal bound for the grave.
As the candles were lit on the eve of Yom Kippur and a melancholic atmosphere descended upon us, my father would wrap himself in the white shroud and stand over the dining room buffet, stiffly starched white tash-tikhl, or cloth handkerchief, in one hand, and Yom Kippur makhzer, prayer book, in the other. One by one, he would put the handkerchief on each childs head and, holding both hands in place, bless us individually a moment frozen in time.
Following my fathers brukhe, or blessing, I watched through the dining room window as the ethereal procession of men in white kitls made their way to Kol Nidre. Their eyes to the sidewalk, and their hands tucked into their gartls, the belt that separates the upper body the mind and soul from the lower body and its impurity, they dragged their non-leather shoes on the cement. Wearing leather shoes, once considered the most comfortable footwear, is one of the five forbidden pleasures on the Day of Atonement eating and drinking, bathing, anointing and and having marital relations being the others.
On Yom Kippur, married Satmar women cover their heads in white turbans or scarves instead of the usual wigs or other headgear, as was the wish of the lateSatmar rebbe Joel Teitelbaum. Every year, my mother, who normally wears a wig and hat, would spend half an hour in front of the mirror before going to synagogue, tying the white tikhl, or scarf, around her shorn head. Like many other middle-aged women, she opted for the classier look the scarf in place of a white turban, which was popular among the younger generation. Then she would tie her vase shirtsl around her waist and walk to the main Satmar synagogue of Kiryas Joel.
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Opposites attract -- very slowly
Toronto Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema); San Sebastian Film Festival (Competition)
Hadas Yaron, Matin Dubreuil, Luzer Twersky
Maxime Giroux
A married Hasidic woman and a single and penniless man in early middle age who has just lost his very rich father slowly -- very slowly -- fall for each other in Felix and Meira (Felix et Meira), from French-Canadian director Maxime Giroux. Like the directors previous feature, Jo for Jonathan, this is a minutely observed story of great modesty that thrives on transformations so tiny, the film deserves to be seen on the big screen. However, beyond local and festival engagements, this unspectacular story of the forbidden attraction between a very patient man and a reticent woman will be very hard to market.
Felix (Martin Dubreuil) has come back to the family mansion to see his ailing father, whos on his way out. They havent seen each other for a long time and theres a sense that Felixs last-minute visit is something he does because its the proper thing to do, rather than because of any need for closure for whatever may have separated them. After his death, the devil-may-care Felix isnt even necessarily interested in his inheritance; when his sister tells him shell give him access to the money only if he comes up with a decent plan to invest or use it, he seems not all that concerned.
Family is supposed to be everything for Meira (Hadas Yaron), whos married to the very religious Schlumi (Luzer Twersky), with whom she has a small child. But here, too, Giroux and his regular co-screenwriter, Alexandre Laferriere, signal that the life that would logically be laid out for them doesnt quite fit the protagonist. Meira doesnt want any other children -- much to the shock of a fellow Hasidic housewife, who mutters "But its our duty!" -- and she loves music, much to the exasperation of Schlumi, who tells her to "turn these distortions off" and to "stop behaving like a child" when she falls down and pretends to be dead.
Its inevitable that these two fundamentally unhappy characters will recognize something of that discontent in each other when they run into each other several times over the course of a couple of days in the mixed Montreal neighborhood where they both live. Though Felix is something of a happy-go-lucky guy, his fathers death has made him perhaps more aware of his need to live for something or someone possibly Meira, whose attraction to Felix is complicated not only by the fact that Felix is godless, but also by the fact that her husband is essentially a decent, God-fearing man. To further complicate matters, they dont really speak the same language;Meira speaks Yiddish and Felix speaks French, forcing them to occasionally converse in English, though the film's treatment of their language differences is not always coherent (Meira occasionally speaks French).
Giroux largely takes the time observing the two adults getting to know each other. Indeed, theres a sense thatMeira, especially, needs that time to ease herself into something as reckless as an extramarital affair. Even so, the pacing of Giroux and his regular editor Mathieu Bouchard-Malo (he also cut recent Quebec titleLove in the Time of Civil War, another observational film with little narrative meat on its bones) often feels a tad too unhurried, since so little happens from one minute to the next and theres not enough backstory or character information for audiences to fill in all the silent moments.
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Stop the Massacre in Gaza 26 July London Since then Israel has killed more than 100s people, bringing the total to over 900. Most of those killed have been civilians, a fifth of them children. Over 6000 have been injured.
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