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The Schmooze D.C. Synagogue Competes for Preservation Grant
Washington D.C.’s Sixth & I Historic Synagogue is hoping to follow in the footsteps of Brooklyn’s Congregation Beth Elohim by winning a coveted Partners in Preservation grant to repair its century-old stained glass windows. Sixth & I has been chosen to be among 24 finalists competing for a portion of $1 million. Since 2006, Partners…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Peter Rubinstein Resigns From Central Synagogue
The hunt is on for a rabbi to lead one of the Reform movement’s most prominent congregations. Rabbi Peter Rubinstein informed congregants of Manhattan’s Central Synagogue that he will step down from his post as senior rabbi at the end of June, 2014. “What will be a 23-year season of my rabbinate at Central Synagogue…
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Culture Teenage Girl Pounds Robber
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating and edifying clippings from the Jewish past. 100 Years Ago 1913 Eighteen-year-old Esther Goldberg, a pretty girl who lives at 20 Pitt Street…
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The Schmooze Slovak Shul To Become Art Gallery
The Jewish community of Zilina in Slovakia will rent out one of its former synagogues to artists who plan to turn it into a gallery. The community will charge the artists a “symbolic fee,” according to a report on Sveriges Radio, Sweden’s public radio broadcaster. The building, originally called the Neolog Synagogue, was designed in…
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Opinion A Possible Pope Goes to Shul
Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, went to shul Shabbat yesterday. Not for the usual davening. Cardinal Dolan, who is considered papabile (a candidate, albeit a very dark-horse candidate, for the papal throne recently vacated by Pope Benedict XVI), immediately captured the standing-room-only crowd in the Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue by greeting the congregation…
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Culture Story’s the Same, Only the Shul Has Changed
Most of the time, I live in one world and write about another. But now and then, the two collide, making for a lively conjunction. The other day, I was researching an article about the razing, in 1927, of Temple Emanu-El, arguably New York City’s premier Reform congregation, when it was located in the very…
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News Dazzling Torah Bells Spark Legal Battle for Touro Synagogue and Shearith Israel
Within a matter of months, the congregation at Touro Synagogue will celebrate the 250th anniversary of America’s oldest Jewish house of worship. But the members of Congregation Jeshuat Israel, who have prayed at the Newport, R.I., building for generations, may have to celebrate outside. That’s because an argument over a dazzling pair of silver Torah…
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Fast Forward Peter Madoff Gets Jail Break for Bat Mitzvah
Bernie Madoff’s brother Peter Madoff is headed to prison for his role in the notorious billion-dollar Ponzi scam. But not before reportedly attending his granddaughter’s super-luxe bat mitzvah. A judge hit Peter Madoff, 67, with a 10-year sentence. But after received pleas from family and clergy, the jurist allowed the disgraced Madoff brother to report…
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