Brown University junior Hal Triedman is a leader of an independent prayer group called Friday Night Jews, but he doesn’t know exactly how it started, since it was founded before he arrived on campus. He’s pretty sure it had something to do with a few students being upset with the local Hillel, the main Jewish…
The Lakewood Yeshiva is in New Jersey, but it’s the Texas of Talmud academies. Everything is big, from festivals to real estate deals. Its airy study halls can hold hundreds of bearded men in black pants and crisp white shirts, their fringes swinging at the waist as they spend their days in prayer and study….
The wake-up call for the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue came the morning 11 Jews at prayer were killed in Pittsburgh. The Reform congregation created a security committee and quickly began planning and implementing changes. Because they did not have a deep rainy-day fund to draw on, they cut the facilities budget, and added a $190 security…
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One midwinter afternoon in 1926, the socialists at the Jewish Daily Forward called the cops on the Jewish left. Columns of angry workers marched on the Forward’s Lower East Side headquarters, carrying banners that read “Down With the Forward.” The Forward knew they were coming, so the newspaper bosses called police headquarters for help. The…
Two days after a 19-year-old white supremacist stormed a synagogue in California, security experts are calling on synagogues to guard their doors. That’s a bitter pill to swallow for many American synagogues, for which open doors have been all but an article of faith. But in the wake of two deadly synagogue attacks just six…
Saturday was the last day of Passover — one of the four times during the yearly cycle of holidays that Jews recite Yizkor, the prayer for the dead and for martyrs. There were several dozen people in attendance for the service at the Chabad of Poway, the only Orthodox synagogue in northern suburbs of San…
A gunman killed one person and injured three more at a synagogue outside San Diego on Saturday. Here’s what we know about the attack. Click on each article for more details: Some details of the incident have been released: The shooting took place at Chabad of Poway, on the six-month anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue…
Attorneys for the publisher of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer have said they intend to stop representing him because he refuses to emerge from his overseas hiding place to testify in his harassment trial, HuffPost reported Thursday. Andrew Anglin was sued in 2017 by a Montana woman named Tanya Gersh, a year after he…
Most job interviews are little more than sitting in a windowless room, answering questions from a manager with your resume in one hand and coffee in the other. For rabbis aiming for the pulpit, they’re a little different. This past winter, Temple Israel Center, a large Conservative synagogue in Westchester County, New York, had four…
What do you do with 665 pieces of the Holocaust? That’s the question facing Edie Mermelstein, the daughter of survivor, human rights activist and collector of Holocaust artifacts Mel Mermelstein as the latest Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – approaches on May 1. Since 1972, Mel has displayed his pieces as a teaching tool…
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