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A Christian Orthodox priest in Nova Scotia, Canada was forced to retire after honoring Judaism and Israel in his sermon, The Canadian Jewish News reported. Vladimir Tobin, the head priest of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Church in Halifax, was told last month in a letter from the archbishop that he must leave the church following the…
A new museum exhibition in Berlin details how the Nazis made use of the anti-Semitic words of Martin Luther, the leader of the Protestant Reformation, RNS [reported]. The exhibit is located in the Topography of Terror, a museum about methods of Nazi repression that was built in the former headquarters of the Nazi secret police,…
Congregation Beth Yeshurun in Meyerland, Texas took a severe hit from hurricane Harvey. The entire building was flooded and repair work on damages will take months and in no way will be done in time for the High Holidays. In the meanwhile, members of the 2000-family synagogue are finding refuge at Lakewood Church, Houston’s megachurch…
Jay Sekulow, Trump’s TV-ready private lawyer and a Messianic Jew, diverted millions of dollars from his not-for-profit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, to his family members’ bank accounts, The Guardian reported Tuesday. Since 2000, the British paper added, $60 million has come to Sekulow’s family and their businesses by way of CASE. CASE reportedly used intensive…
In her essay, “The Aesthetics of Silence,” Susan Sontag writes that “the artist who creates silence or emptiness must produce something dialectical: a full void, an enriching emptiness, a resonating or eloquent silence.” Though Sontag never mentions the work of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (of whom she could hardly have been aware at the time),…
(JTA) — A Connecticut church is showing its support for the local Jewish community after several bomb threats. The Mandell JCC of Greater Hartford and the JCC of Greater New Haven in Woodbridge, Connecticut, as well as the Hebrew High School of New England in West Hartford, Connecticut have been the victims of called-in bomb…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An historic church in northern Israel has reopened more than a year after an arson and vandalism attack. The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes, where Christians believe Jesus performed a miracle in which he fed thousands of people, reopened on Sunday after renovations costing about $1 million. The…
On a recent Sunday morning, a white Jewish guy wearing a backpack entered the First African Methodist Episcopal Church: Bethel in Harlem, without a problem. A black usher wearing white gloves greeted him warmly at the door and gave him a service pamphlet. The young man found a seat on a plush green bench and,…
THE TEMPLE EMANU-EL STREICKER CENTER and Virtual
Aug 10, 2022
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Will the last Jew left in New York’s congressional delegation be reelected? Will New York’s senior congresswoman receive another term? Or will one of the newcomers upend Manhattan politics?
