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Life Why Women Don’t Always Feel Welcome In Synagogue, And What We Can Do About It
There’s something compelling about the idea that as an Orthodox Jew, no matter where I am in the world, all I have to do to feel at home is find a synagogue. But after nearly four decades of as a female Jew in synagogues in the United States and Israel, I am finally, belatedly, starting…
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Fast Forward Oldest Congregation Appeals Decision In $7M Shul vs. Shul Court Fight
The congregation that worships in America’s oldest synagogue building asked a federal court for a rehearing of the case that gave control of its pricey artifacts to the building’s historic trustees. Lawyers for Congregation Jeshuat Israel, which meets in the 250-year-old Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, said the court’s decision last month giving control…
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Fast Forward Who Owns America’s Oldest Synagogue? It’s A 350-Year-Old Argument.
NEW YORK (JTA) — The story of America’s oldest synagogue, as told by retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter, is the story of American Jewish history. Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, Souter wrote, was built in the 1700s by Sephardic merchants whose community then declined. In the late 1800s, Eastern European Jews arrived in…
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Sponsored The Stunning Synagogues of Germany
Before World War II, according to a German news site, there were about 2,800 synagogues in Germany. Now there are around 130. It’s a grim statistic, but there is cause for optimism. Since reunification Germans have a renewed interest in the Jewish history of their country. They’ve also welcomed an influx of Jews, mainly from…
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Opinion Should We Act Like Sports Fans In The Synagogue Sanctuary?
Jewish Communal Prayer: to what might we compare it? To a symphony performance….Are we spectators in the music hall, or players in the orchestra? To what might we compare it? To a dramatic play….Are we spectators in the theater, or players on the stage? To what might we compare it? To a team sporting event….Are…
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Fast Forward Judge Blocks Trump Sanctuary City Order
(REUTERS) — A U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities, dealing another legal blow to the administration’s immigration priorities. The ruling from U.S. District Judge William Orrick III in San Francisco said Trump’s order targeted broad categories of federal funding for sanctuary…
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Culture Breathtaking Postcards Bring Lost Synagogues Back To Life
The sanctuary of the Great Synagogue in Lodz was probably not, in actuality, sour-apple green. Yet in a late 19th- or early 20th-century postcard showcasing the synagogue’s interior, colorized with an outré enthusiasm, a chandelier and sections of the bimah are the color of a doctor’s-office lollipop. That candy-tinted symbol of times past might, when…
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Fast Forward Reform Movement Urges Synagogues To Protect Immigrants From Deportation
(JTA) — The Reform movement called on its member synagogues to protected undocumented immigrants facing deportation from the United States. The Union for Reform Judaism issued a resolution Friday recommending that its congregations provide shelter and legal assistance, as well as material, financial or educational support to at-risk immigrants. Rabbi Dov Pesner, who heads the movement’s policy arm, the…
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