Tag: synagogue

The Jewish population of Djerba consisted mainly of kohanim (priests), and some claim that they are the only bona fide kohanim we have today.

The synagogue's upper floors had been condemned since the 1990s, and in 2007 the building was closed altogether.

She has tweeted that a young Palestinian boy going to throw stones at Israeli soldiers is the 'definition of courage.'

The man with the cleaver wanted to "kill Jews." The teenage gang wanted to hurt them. Neither worried about getting caught.

The synagogue administrator described the attacker as a European man, 35-40. The man was drunk.

"The goal of attacks and acts like this is to instill fear and I will not give in to that fear," the rabbi emphasized in his Facebook post.

'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.'

Belfast police still have no suspects and no arrests made after 13 Jewish graves were vandalized last August.

What are the lessons to be learned from the Chicago synagogue attack?

'People see it as a great opportunity to make a difference.'

The terrorists were familiar with all of their targets due to their illegal employment at jobs within Israel, says the Shin Bet.

Police in Chicago have labeled the attack as a hate crime.

The German regional court ruled the arsonists were carrying out a political statement against Israel, not an anti-Semitic hate crime.

The move comes as a growing number of people throughout Sicily are rediscovering their Jewish roots.

'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.

The honorary Israeli consul in western Ukraine says the attack was carried out as a provocation against diplomatic ties.

Amsterdam police and the counterterror unit uncovered a jihadist plot to attack a synagogue and arrested the wannabe terrorists.

A terrorist who stabbed two Jewish men to death as they prayed will spend his life in an Israeli prison, being paid by the PLO.

"In Judaism buildings aren’t so important, they are places that we use… but we move, we move a lot."

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.

A Jewish suspect has been arrested in the Yom Kippur hate crime against a synagogue in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem.

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.

On the eve of the Jewish new year, a man shoots and critically wounds a security guard at a famed Moscow synagogue.

London's first Muslim mayor is a smashing success on his interfaith tour in the US, including at two synagogues.

The synagogue, named Koresh - Mishkan Shalom l'yotzei Iran (Cyrus - abode of peace for Iranian newcomers), is named after the Persian king who allowed Babylonian Jews to return to Israel after the first Exile.

Two gas canisters inside a vehicle parked outside a synagogue raised the alert for passersby and police in Marseille on the Sabbath; a week ago a failed car bomb was aimed at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

The excavated synagogue in Susiya dates from the 4th to the 7th century CE and was in continuous use until the 9th century CE.

Before the war there were some 50 synagogues in Kolomia, among them the magnificent Hoiche Shul, a Yerushalmi synagogue, several Hassidic kloizes and even a Zionist synagogue.

Images portray Noah’s ark and animals, chaotic parting of Red Sea