Tag: synagogue

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jews must be armed. Today, and everyday. In synagogues, and everywhere else.

Jana Lange was killed when she reprimanded the shooter outside the synagogue, asking him: "Is that really necessary while I'm walking past here?"

The perpetrators hammered at the synagogue doors but could not penetrate them.

Cardoza-Moore instructed her followers: “Please contact your local Rabbi and let them know that you will be standing outside their synagogue in solidarity."

Police are still investigating two other hate crimes against religious Jewish men from last week.

Detectives are also investigating a pattern of cars with windows smashed outside of synagogues in the 24th Rogers Park District.

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.

"A shocking event, a hate event in a synagogue in our city."

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.

Two adults were examined by emergency medical personnel for mild symptoms, but reportedly refused to go to a hospital.

“The City of Cape Town fire and rescue services need to be thanked for their bravery as they battle this blaze."

The incident followed by one day another in which vandals scrawled a swastika and the “n” word on the stairs of a home in Brooklyn Heights.

An anonymous Pence aide told the AP that Jacobs "was not invited by the VP's office to speak on behalf of the Jewish community."

After centuries of persecution, the Jews would be justified in hating many different Peoples.

Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar affixed a Mezuza to the door post at the inauguration ceremony.

Kehilat Yonatan offers a conversion program to Israeli citizens and foreigners with long-term visas, and egalitarian wedding services.

"It should be noted that this incident is quite unusual in Iran," the sources said.

"There isn't a shred of doubt this is an anti-Semitic hate crime designed to promote white supremacy."

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.

The sellers claim the building is dilapidated; the congregants vehemently deny the charge, saying it's not true.

An attorney representing Mikhaylov in court Monday told the judge his client wanted to pray – a desire most Jews find ways to fulfill without impersonating a policeman.

“The site is unsuitable for a synagogue because of the potential risk to users and other members of the general public," a council spokesperson said.

'We could not save anything. Not Torah scrolls, nor holy books, they were all burned down. All we have to do is look into our actions and repent.'