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By Josh Hasten
The synagogue, at the Lamed-Hey base in Gush Etzion, was also dedicated in memory of Ari Fuld, who was murdered by an Arab terrorist in 2018.
By Avi Abelow
A synagogue I used to pray in now lets you choose bathroom and prayer sections based on how you identify.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Among the items found was a stone tablet containing a portion of the Ten Commandments.
The Huliaipole Synagogue was hit by a Russian missile.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Assistance will go to synagogues in the heavily Jewish neighborhoods of Midwood, Kensington, Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Borough Park and Flatbush with a capacity of fewer than 200 people and little staff.
This is the first time that two synagogues have been found in a single settlement from the Second Temple period.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Change the no-bail laws or New York may become the next Paris!"
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
With the pandemic's end in sight the Orthodox Union convened small synagogues to discuss returning to full operations.
As of 2019, according to Rabbi Marc Schneier, it is estimated that about 150 families—some 3,000 Jews, live and pray freely in the UAE.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
After learning that the price quote was for a Jewish synagogue, the Arab contractor decided to donate the materials and work for free.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is “accelerating” the process, but at 25 percent capacity and only in areas that have entered “phase 2” of the state’s reopening from the coronavirus shutdown.
Officer Amy Dotson of the Peoria Police Department said the windows were broken by either rocks or bricks, and among the rooms impacted were classrooms and a kitchen.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. president called on governors to make such a move “right now” and threatened that “if there’s any question, they’re going to have to call me—but they are not going to be successful in that call.”
The device could be a game-changer in the next step towards reopening shuls on Shabbat.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We will need to consider which activities to run, who can attend and what the maximum number will be,” said Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. “Events such as Kiddushim may not be possible for some time.”
While some rabbis have banned the porch minyan on various grounds, week upon week of staying home has started to wear people down, and the phenomenon has increased.
By Chabad.org
Rabbi Mendel Goldstein walked to synagogue in solitude in compliance with social-distancing measures, held Lori’s Torah and said a prayer for her and the community she left behind.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted on two synagogues in Huntsville, Ala., over the initial days of the Passover holiday. Police have released surveillance footage of a suspect.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Antibody levels will be studied by medical professionals from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.
Rabbi Riskin also ruled that someone who has been tested for Coronavirus must leave their phone on during Shabbat in case they get the results back.
This is an unprecedented American-Jewish leadership response to the spread of Coronavirus by the Bergen County Jewish leadership.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Officers said he used orange paint to draw a swastika on the front steps of the temple and “F U Black Shirt” on the doors of the synagogue.
By Tony Katz
Jews must be armed. Today, and everyday. In synagogues, and everywhere else.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Vandals broke into the Siach Yisrael synagogue in Kiryat Yovel on Monday night and desecrated the Torah scrolls while pouring chemicals on them, broke the synagogue’s furniture and ransacked the sanctuary. Books were damaged and destroyed.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Following the recitation of the Jewish traveler’s prayer, the Adas Israel synagogue, built back in 1876, was ceremoniously moved one block down Third Street.
After centuries of persecution, the Jews would be justified in hating many different Peoples.
By JNi.Media
After an initial briefing with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and with the Orthodox Union which is coordinating the volunteers within the Jewish community in Houston, the ZAKA team set out to work.
By JNi.Media
The Jewish population of Djerba consisted mainly of kohanim (priests), and some claim that they are the only bona fide kohanim we have today.
By JNi.Media
'No one can argue with the written artifact. There was an ancient synagogue here and the synagogue was built in its current form in recent centuries.'
What are the lessons to be learned from the Chicago synagogue attack?
By JNi.Media
'People see it as a great opportunity to make a difference.'
By JNi.Media
The move comes as a growing number of people throughout Sicily are rediscovering their Jewish roots.
By JNi.Media
'It’s so sad that at this time people should feel that they want to express themselves in such a negative way,' Chabad Rabbi Boruch Rabinowitz said.
By JNi.Media
"In Judaism buildings aren’t so important, they are places that we use… but we move, we move a lot."
By JNi.Media
My Genizah is a hard-edge, personal commentary on the making of the Jewish archive from the documents of the Genizah.
The Muslim tourists mistook the Jewish prayer shawls for Islamic floor mats.
By JNi.Media
While the congregation hastily made its way out of the building, Rabbi Liberow and a few of the congregants were able to get the Torah scrolls and prayer books out.
The excavated synagogue in Susiya dates from the 4th to the 7th century CE and was in continuous use until the 9th century CE.
By JNi.Media
Images portray Noah’s ark and animals, chaotic parting of Red Sea
By JNi.Media
The Newport congregation testified they had to sell the ornaments because their numbers were starting to dwindle and they could no longer afford to pay a rabbi.
By JNi.Media
Saying they were the trustees, not the owners, Judge McConnell chastised Shearith Israel for claiming ownership and removed it as Touro’s trustee.
By JNi.Media
In September 2006 shots were fired at the synagogue, and since then Police have stepped-up patrols in the area.
Arab terrorists have again burned sacred items belonging to the Jews of Karmei Tzur in Judea.
"A swastika is not mere vandalism — it is a symbol of hatred," said the synagogue rabbi. In Brooklyn, a man punched a college student in the face because he is white and Jewish.
By JNi.Media
“The reality is that the specific challenges posed by the handicapped are all too often overlooked within our religious community and many of our synagogues and community facilities are not made amenable to the needs of this population.”
“Violent Islamism is still the biggest threat against Sweden,” said Anders Thornberg., the director general of Swedish security service.
2 dead and multiple wounded in synagogue attack.
Hundreds of people have barricaded themselves in the Givat Ze'ev synagogue. Police tell court they cannot stop violence if wrecking ball starts to work.
One of the Arab land owners lied, but it is unclear which one. Now the synagogue is threatened with destruction.
By JNi.Media
Police concluded this was a burglary and not a hate crime.
A community in Samaria told the Supreme Court it is working through the offices of Peres and Abbes to find a solution to prevent the planned desecration.
The Vice President bared his heart and emotions in a packed synagogue, saying the biggest factor is if he has the "emotional energy."
Detectives in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, caught two Palestinian Authority Arabs who had broken into a synagogue. The Arabs possessed tools that were used to force their into the synagogue as well as nearby parked car, which they apparently intended to use to escape.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Orthodox Union, B'nai Brith and the Houston Federation are pitching in.
An Arab language website sent a reporter, dressed as a Jew, to the streets of Cairo.
Rabbis and Jewish leaders soon will take self-defense courses to protect themselves against terrorists.
Terrorists opened fire on a Copenhagen Synagogue just hours after the cafe attack.
A Paris court also banned a planned rally under the banner "Islamists out of France."
Just in time for the United Nations Security Council to think twice about recognizing the PA.
By JTA
“Move Jew” scrawled on a Philadelphia home and slurs written on a synagogue and 10 garages in Chicago.
By JTA
The Nazis nearly destroyed the 17th synagogue.
Police said on Nov, 18: “One way to cope with the recent wave of attacks…is not to return the bodies to the families.”
All of the hit-and-run attacks were “accidents,” and no mention was made of the massacre in Har Nof.
Israel remains stained with a stain of racism.
A Toronto synagogue issued a rare Shabbat appeal to help the family.
By JTA
Her tweet proves a baroness can be a twit.
Wholesale discrimination against Arabs is blatantly illegal and racist but sends a strong message to the police.
The motto of the Druze is to be faithful to the country in which they live.
Israelis must not fall into the trap of fear that would mean victory for the enemy.
When CNN finally corrected the report, it told viewers, “4 Israelis, 2 Palestinians Killed in Jerusalem.”
It is time the leaders in Israel and the world realize this has nothing to do with settlements or the Temple Mount or a fake claim of occupation and everything to do with radical Islamic barbarism!
The European Jewish Congress has called on European leaders to condition future aid and cooperation between the European Union and the Palestinians on the end of rampant incitement against Israel and Jews in the Palestinian Authority in the wake of the terror attack against worshipers in a synagogue in Jerusalem this morning. “The European Union, […]
Expect the US later today to call on Israel to "refrain from escalating tension."
Abbas condemns the murders while his aides justify them.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said that the terrorist attack in a synagogue during prayers Tuesday morning “amply demonstrates the baseness of the murderers, and that the responsibility rests entirely with the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas.“ The Foreign Minister added, “Abbas has deliberately turned the conflict into a religious conflict between […]
A man who was praying in the Har Nof synagogue where Arab terrorists murdered four Jews Tuesday morning said he a table and chair between him and an Arab attacker saved his life. "I tried to escape. The man with the knife approached me. There was a chair and table between us … my prayer […]
Pictures from Tazpit News Agency.
Mahmoud Abbas so far has remained silent after Tuesday’s massacre of Jews while they were praying.
By JTA
Illinois police found thousands of rounds of ammunition in the house of the suspect.
Indyk is the epitome of the US view that Israel should be America’s Jewish image.
Arsonists set fire to a Brussels synagogue on Tuesday, that was previously firebombed in 2010, but Jewish officials are not ready to declare the incident as anti-Semitic. The wife and two children of the synagogue’s caretaker, who was not present at the time of the arson, suffered slight smoke inhalation after the fire broke out […]
The jihad network has snared teenagers in its web. One out of every six Frenchmen supports the ISIS.
Syria oldest synagogue was flattened and destroyed over the weekend.
Two worshippers in a synagogue on Passover saved a child from death in a burning car that exploded shortly after the rescue. The worshippers rushed to the burning vehicle after hearing the family’ scream for help, and they found the toddler strapped in a car seat. The worshippers, Moshe Kupperman and a second man, identified […]
The oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States was evacuated Tuesday night after New York firefighters discovered cracks in columns supporting the second floor. The structure was built in 1849 and was the home of Congregation Anshe Chesed before being bought in 1986 by the Spanish sculptor, Angel Orensanz. The center is an art […]
By JTA
A synagogue in eastern Ukraine sustained minor damage from firebombs hurled at it by unidentified individuals Saturday night. The firebombs hit the Giymat Rosa Synagogue in Zaporizhia, located 250 miles southeast of Kiev, according to a report on the news site timenews.in.ua. The website published photos that showed the traces of a fire on the […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) is considering sending people to physically prevent Hungary's ultra-nationalist Jobbik party from holding a rally at a former synagogue on next Friday. Jobbik, which holds 43 of 386 seats in the country's parliament, is planning the rally in a building in the city of Esztergom which had once […]
By JTA
A Dallas-area rabbi who uses his home as a synagogue is being sued by a neighbor who says it has lowered his property values. Rabbi Yaakov Rich told the local Fox affiliate Fox4 in a video posted Wednesday that his 3,700-square-foot home is a synagogue with about 25 members. A website identifies his synagogue as […]
Italian police have identified the man who sent the pig heads to Rome's main shul.
When a Muslim king asks the Jews to pray for rain you know that the world is not so out of kilter.
By JTA
Unidentified Russian vandals used a pig’s head to desecrate a synagogue in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, according to representatives of the Jewish community of the city, located 600 miles west of Baku, Azerbaijan. They found the pig’s head at the entrance to their synagogue and believe the perpetrators are also responsible for English-language […]
With all due respect to the man and his memory, Mandela promoted strong independent states for minorities – except Israel. He publicly praised Arab terrorism against Israel in the name of "freedom."
A killer flood in Colorado submerged a synagogue and a rabbi’s home in Boulder County, and the Chabad synagogue rabbi is thankful that Torah scrolls were saved with the help of students from the nearby University of Colorado. “Thank G‑d, the students have been immensely helpful moving the Torahs and other sacred items to higher […]
By Guest Author
Many Igbo, even while practicing Christianity, nonetheless consider themselves Jewish.
By JTA
The Jewish community of Zagreb, Croatia, is moving ahead with plans to rebuild a synagogue destroyed in the World War II. “We are conducting examinations in Prague Street on the site of our destroyed synagogue in order to rebuild it,” said a statement from the local Jewish community, quoted Thursday by the Jutarnji newspaper. Today, […]
By JTA
Vandals defaced a Portland synagogue and a community center with racist graffiti. “White power” was written in red spray paint on promotional banners at Mittleman Jewish Community Center and Neveh Shalom, a conservative synagogue, police said, according to The Oregonian. Both institutions are located in southwest Portland, and authorities are seeking a man in his […]
A GE mechanic who also loves the KKK comes up with an X-ray WMD device. What better market for the gadget than Jews, who can use it to annihilate Israel’s foes. But the Jews snitched on him to the FBI.
By JTA
The synagogue in Sochi in Russia has been renovated and a new Torah scroll acquired ahead of the city’s hosting of the Winter Olympics next year. Rabbi Ari Edelkopf, director of the Jewish Community of Sochi, told JTA the renovation was completed this month and “will help our synagogue serve not only thousands of local […]
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