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Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 14 in the Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 14 in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded by an amateur Israeli tourist on Sunday,...
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Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 121 in the Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 121 in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded by an amateur Israeli tourist on Sunday...
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Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 130 in the Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 130 in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded by an amateur Israeli tourist on Sunday...
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Myanmar #39;s last synagogue becomes a top tourist attraction
Musmeah Yeshua is the last surviving synagogue in Myanmar. The synagogue has stood in the centre of downtown for over 100 years -- in it #39;s heyday it served a...
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Congregation Shaare Shalom synagogue will hold Walkin With Gabriella Walk-A-Thon to benefit the Smashing Walnuts Foundation Sunday, April 6 at Heritage High School.
The event, scheduled 10 a.m.-1 p.m., with registration beginning at 9:30, is free and open to the public. Event coordinator Joe Arnstein suggests participants pre-register for the event.
A DJ, bake sale and food drive will be featured at the event along with an array of other activities. Good deeds stations will be set up for area charities including the Hamilton Rescue Squad, VSA Arts, Loudoun Abused Womens Shelter, Fraternal Order of Police and Heritage Hall.
This is the second year the synagogue has held an event in honor of Gabriella Miller, the Leesburg girl who died last October from an inoperable brain tumor. She and her family started the Smashing Walnuts Foundation to promote awareness of childhood cancer nationwide, a cause thats near and dear to the congregations heart, Arnstein said. Mark and Ellyn [Miller] are members of our congregation and we all knew and loved Gabriella and most of the people in our synagogue were very close with her and her family.
Donations are not required, but Arnstein asks that people come out and show their support. Its supposed to be a positive kind of community get-together. Im hoping that its going to be a healing kind of event for the Miller family but also other families that are affected by childhood cancer, Arnstein said.
The walk-a-thon is being held in conjunction with Good Deeds Day, a community wide day of service established in 2009 through The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. At least 60 private and public charitable projects going on in the area are expected to bring in more than 5,000 volunteers Sunday, Michelle Blundell, media relations for the Jewish Federation, said.
Heritage High School is located at 520 Evergreen Mills Road. For more information contact Congregation Shaare Shalom at 703-737-6500.
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Restored synogogue on Main Street. Photo by Michael Ryan.
The building has seen its fair share of owners. But it's latest -- Lighthouse Breakthrough International Ministries -- hopes that the former synagogue can be fully restored.
"I'd like for it to be a community place that the city could see as, you know, as some place they could utilize for their needs, you know," Taylor said. "We're not open for anything that's crazy, but anything that's within reason that's going to respect what we do here and what the structure is."
The history of the B'nai Israel Synagogue is wrapped in both blessings and tragedies. A fire destroyed Cape Girardeau's Jewish community's previous place of worship in the 1930s. The synagogue was built shortly thereafter.
According to Southeast Missouri State University historic preservation professor Dr. Steven Hoffman, the history behind the building is quite interesting. Prior to the fire the Jewish community met at Capaha Park's clubhouse, but soon after its destruction the city came together and helped the Jewish community find a new place to worship.
"The Hechts, who were long-time business and property owners downtown were major donors, but there was certainly a lot of community support to build that facility, and so once upon a time we had a thriving Jewish community right here on the banks of the Mississippi in the Midwest," Hoffman said.
When Taylor first saw the old synagogue it was in a state of disrepair. The building had no working heat or running water and was layered in both dust and dirt.
"I have to be honest. I was really shocked because the building was just basically sitting. It was just kind of being used as a storage place," Taylor said.
According to Taylor, when a building sits in these conditions for a number of years it begins to deteriorate from the inside. The congregation has since been working diligently to restore the building to what it once was.
In order to prevent any further damage to the structure, one of the first steps Taylor took was getting the water and heat turned back on. The lack of heat had destroyed a lot of the interior's plaster. The most damage was found in the former rabbi's quarters, and Taylor believes it will be one of the last rooms to be remodeled.
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The Department of Buildings says the former Lower East Side synagogue that had to be evacuated Monday night will remain vacant for now.
The building dates back to the 1840s and is now used as an event space.
The DOB says there are vertical cracks in the building's first- and second-floor joists, which support the floors and ceilings.
The department says the property owner must get permits and make repairs before anyone will be allowed back in.
Firefighters responded to reports of smoke at the building on Norfolk Street Monday when they were told by party-goers that the balcony was shaking.
More than 500 people were forced to leave the building in the middle of an event.
No one was hurt.
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A public park in the Hasidic enclave of Kiryas Joel in Monroe, N.Y., will desegregate the sexes after settling a lawsuit with the New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union.
The NYCLU and the ACLU sued the Village of Kiryas Joel in December for forcing men and woman to congregate in separate areas of Kinder Park, which is located on unincorporated land in the Town of Monroe.
Areas for women and girls were marked with red benches and red playground equipment, while the area for males were marked with blue. There were reports that members of the Satmas Hasidic enclave had posted signs in Yiddish instructing females to confine themselves to pink and red benches, slides, and jungle gyms in the 283-acre park.
A Freedom of Information Act request showed the park was paid for with government funds, which therefore becomes a federal endorsement of gender segregation.
Public parks cannot segregate on the basis of sex any more than they can for race or national origin, said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman. This agreement ensures that all park visitors have equal access to the entire park.
Transparency is essential for the public to be able to trust the government, and for government to be accountable to the people, said Brooke Menschel, an NYCLU attorney on the case. We filed this lawsuit because New Yorkers have the right to know what government is doing. Thats why we have Freedom of Information laws.
When the lawsuit was first filed in December, Brooklyn Councilman David Greenfield (Council Member David Greenfield) said the ACLU and NYCLU were picking on these Hasidic Jews.
One of the great things about our country is the freedom that people of all cultures and backgrounds can enjoy without fear of government intrusion, he said in a statement to Gothamist. I was told that the park in Kiryas Joel was funded entirely by private donations and therefore is a private park. The reality is that many Hasidim, especially teenagers, would not play in a park unless there are separate areas for boys and girls due to their religious beliefs.
The villages attorney, Donald Nichol, maintained last week that Kiryas Joel "does not have any policy of directing, endorsing, or enforcing illegal segregation on the basis of sex in public places or programs.
Sources: Rockland County Times, Gothamist
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Kiryas Joel in upstate New York agreed to halt gender segregation at a public park in the Hasidic village.
The decision announced Monday by Kiryas Joel, which is populated by Satmar Hasidim, settles a lawsuit filed in December by civil liberties groups, according to the Courthouse News Service. The agreement was reached on March 25.
The Kinder Park was opened in April 2012. The 283-acre park includes blue-painted playground equipment and pink-painted playground equipment located in separate areas. The parks rules, including gender separation, were listed in Hebrew on signs.
The park was built using special financing obtained by the villages mayor, the Gothamist reported.
Under the agreement, civil liberties monitors will visit the park twice a year for the next three years to ensure there is no gender segregation there.
Public parks cannot segregate on the basis of sex any more than they can for race or national origin, New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman said in a statement. This agreement ensures that all park visitors have equal access to the entire park.
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Hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel Agrees To End Gender Segregation at Park
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