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100 years on Orchard Street
Posted By richards on May 7, 2014
Historic New Haven synagogue celebrates a milestone
By Cindy Mindell
Credit: Samantha Annette Photography
NEW HAVEN A decade ago, the handful of elderly members still davening at Congregation Beth Israel, founded in 1913, never thought their congregation would make it to its 90th birthday. Known as the Orchard Street Shul, the Colonial Revival-style traditional Orthodox synagogue built in 1926 and listed on the Connecticut State Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places, is the only structure of its kind in the region.
But with the building and membership in poor condition, it looked like the one-time anchor of New Havens thriving Oak Street-Legion Avenue Jewish neighborhood might have to be mothballed or sold.
In 2009, a revival began to take shape. Diehard supporters and the Cultural Heritage Artists Project worked to preserve the landmark building and keep it relevant to the Jewish community, raising funds for the renovations that would allow for High Holiday services in 2012.
Rabbi Mendy Hecht became the third generation of his family to serve the congregation as spiritual leader. He started adult education classes, regular Shabbat services with an enviable kiddush, and a monthly Friday night minyan. Numbers increased, the age range stretching to include teens and college students along with the longtime seniors and even nonagenarians.
This month, the Orchard Street Shul marks the 100th anniversary of Congregation Beth Israel, a milestone that defies the cumulative effect of urban renewal and white flight of the 60s and 70s, an aging congregation, and dwindling synagogue affiliation of the 90s and beyond.
New Haven has a special Jewish history and this is the last piece left of that community and time, says Hecht. The fact that were able to use it is very special, and its really cool to be part of something that has meant so much to so many people.
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kehilat ariel messianic synagogue – Video
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PART ONE – SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN – Video
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PART ONE - SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN
Jesus said that in a church there was a synagogue of Satan. This was a church that He had nothing good to speak about. There was teaching of doctrines of dem...
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Tunisia Synagogue Damaged in Anti-Semitic Attack
Posted By richards on May 7, 2014
Sanctuary of Beith El in Sfax Ransacked By JTA
Published May 06, 2014.
A synagogue in Tunisia was vandalized in what a human rights activist and some Jews described as an anti-Semitic attack.
The Beith El synagogue in Sfax, located 150 miles south of the capital Tunis, was ransacked on April 30 by unidentified individuals who littered the floor with prayer books and tallitot, or Jewish prayer shawls, according to a May 4 account by Ftouh Souhail, a human rights activist and attorney who monitors the situation of the countrys Jewish community of 1,700 people.
He said that signs indicated that Islamo-fascists were behind the vandalism, which he said was anti-Semitic.
Souhail quoted a 76-year-old member of the Jewish community identified as R. Perez as saying: They tore apart walls, paintings and threw them to the floor this is vandalism directed against the Jewish heritage of Sfax. I cried like a child at the sight of my place of worship in this state. The account appeared Sunday on the website Dreuz.info with a video of the synagogue after the attack.
Souhail said that available information showed the perpetrators were a group of 10 students from the Technical High School of April 9. He said they broke into the synagogue while wearing hoods that concealed their faces.
According to Souhail, the attack last week was the third time that pro-Palestinian elements perpetrate these shameful acts against the synagogue of Beith El. Previous attacks occured in August 2011 and December of 2012. In one of the attacks, the perpetrators stole silver chandeliers that weighed 120 pounds, according to Souhails account, which said Sfaxs Jewish community was made up of approximately 20 elderly Jews.
Tunisia has seen a wave of anti-Semitism since the 2010 revolt, Souhail wrote in reference to the revolution that in 2011 swept the countrys former ruler, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, from power.
The website and Facebgook page of the Tunisian interior ministry, which regularly contain updates about crimes, did not immediately offer any information on the incident.
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FBI finds synagogue directions in suspect's home
Posted By richards on May 7, 2014
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A search of the home of Glenn Miller, who is accused of shooting to death three people in April, turned up clues about the suspects intent to go to a Jewish synagogue in Kansas City.
FBI agents found printouts showing directions to the Jewish synagogue, Kosher places to eat and the 2014 KC Superstar Competition.
Miller is accused of shooting William Lewis Corporon, 69, and his 14-year-old grandson Reat Griffin Underwood on April 13, outside the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park. Reat was planning to audition for the KC Superstar Competition.
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Also killed was Terri LaMannon, 53, minutes later, who was going to visit her mother at the Village Shalom senior care facility.
Miller also known as Frazier Glenn Cross is being held in Johnson County Jail, charged with capital murder. The search warrant returns were obtained by 41 Action News after FBI agents filed the documents Tuesday in Lawrence County Circuit Court.
The warrant shows that FBI agents searched Millers home in Aurora in southwest Missouri the same day as the shootings.
Miller has a long history of anti-Semitic and white supremacist activities.
Many of the items seized were hate materials including a red t-shirt with a swastika symbol and a file folder entitled Goin Underground and Declaring War Against the Government. A book authored by him, A White Man Speaks Out, was also found.
An owners manual for a Remington Model 870 shotgun and three boxes of ammunition were also taken.
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Bakashot Makes Unlikely Comeback as Sephardic Jews Explore Traditions
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Chanting Liturgical Poems Washed Down With Arak By Talia Bloch
Published May 06, 2014.
(JTA) The group of young Jewish professionals had gathered to participate in the revival of a Sephardic tradition hearkening back to the days of their grandparents and great-grandparents.
Arriving at an apartment on Manhattans Upper West Side, they greeted each other in French and settled in around a dining table laid out with snacks and bottles of arak.
They had come to listen to the chanting of bakashot, a class of traditional Sephardic liturgical poems praising and petitioning God. The singing of bakashot, which literally means requests, was once common practice among Sephardic Jews across the Middle East and North Africa, but it has waned in many communities over the past two generations.
Sung to classical Sephardic musical modes, bakashot were traditionally performed in synagogues during the pre-dawn hours before Sabbath morning services in the months between Sukkot and Passover.
Ninety percent of the classic tunes sung in the synagogue are based on bakashot, said Mony Abergel, who grew up in Casablanca, Morocco. Every Moroccan, even if he does not know the bakashot, knows the tunes.
Abergel was one of the gatherings four singers, men in their mid-20s to early 30s from Moroccan Jewish families who meet every week to learn and rehearse bakashot.
The men sang in unison, breaking out occasionally into solos. One of them, the groups founder Sacha Ouazana, also played a drum called a darbouka. The music was of a piece with classic Sephardic liturgical chanting, but with a supplicatory yet insistent quality.
Most of those at the March 29 gathering were members of the West Side Sephardic Synagogue. The synagogue is the spiritual home for a growing community of young Jews of North African heritage, many of whom grew up in France and have immigrated to New York over the past decade. Ouazana, for example, grew up outside Paris and now serves as the synagogues cantor.
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Pride of Israel Synagogue in North York hosts Jewish Music Week concert
Posted By richards on May 7, 2014
North York Mirror
For the second year in a row, a North York synagogue is hosting one of the main events for Jewish Music Week in Toronto.
Now in its fourth year, the festival is set to run May 18 to 24 at various venues in the city and Greater Toronto Area and will include a mix of Sephardic, klezmer, Israeli pop, Broadway, Yiddish theatre, jazz, big band, cantorial, folk and gospel music.
The Pride of Israel Synagogue, 59 Lissom Cr., will host a gala evening concert Monday, May 19 featuring Moroccan singer Aaron Bensoussan and Friends, who will bring his blend of Middle Eastern, jazz, flamenco and rock music to the Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue synagogue at 7:30 p.m.
We are expecting a large turnout, said Pride of Israel member Larry Arshoff, who sits on the synagogues Jewish Music Week in Toronto committee.
The synagogue hosted Rocky Mountain Jewgrass for last years festival, drawing about 200 people, he said.
Last year was more rock, Arshoff said. This year its a combination of Middle Eastern, pop, jazz, flamenco. Its not a religious concert by any means.
Bensoussan will perform songs from his latest CD, A New Journey, along with classic Moroccan poems, ancient Judeo-Spanish melodies and Israeli favourites.
He will be joined by world/jazz musician Shai Bachar, bass player Waleed Abdulhamid, Erie Tollar on flute/ney/sax, Demterios Petslakis on guitar and oud, and Naghmeh Farahmand on percussion.
Jewish Music Week in Toronto was supposed to be a one-time deal when Aliza Spiro came up with the idea in 2011 to coincide with the international convention of the Cantors Assembly, which was held in Toronto that year.
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Faces of Various Jewish Groups (Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Italkim, & Sephardi) – Video
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Faces of Various Jewish Groups (Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Italkim, Sephardi)
Ashkenazi Jewsh, Italkim Jews, Sephardic Jews, and Mizrahi Jews.
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