Pittsburgh’s Jewish Population On The Rise, Study Says
The first comprehensive study of Pittsburgh's Jewish community in 16 years indicates the city's Jewish population has increased and is more residentially diverse than it was in 2002.
The Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh analysis also...
New Torah scroll for Baton Rouge’s Jewish community
A Torah originally commissioned in Eastern Europe before World War II was rededicated Sunday evening to Chabad of Baton Rouge.
After an almost year-long search, the Torah scroll, which comprises the Five Books of Moses,...
As storm batters Israel, Chabad program brings warmth to Holocaust survivors
With storm Barbara bringing freezing winds, rain and snow to Israel, over 200 volunteers braved the conditions to deliver portable heaters, blankets and prepared meals to 300 elderly and Holocaust survivors living in Jerusalem.
The...
The Gathering at the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Leads To An Unexpected Discovery
This year's meeting of the Society for crypto-Judaic Studies took place at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia on November 5-7, and featured a odiverse gathering of traditional and independent scholars, researchers, and...
‘A powerful advocate for the Land of Israel’: Rabbi Gold dead at 88
Rabbi Shalom Gold, the Brooklyn-born founder of Congregation Zichron Yosef in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood, was buried at the capital's Har Hamenuchot cemetery on Sunday afternoon.
Rabbi Gold was hospitalized on Friday after contracting an...
FJCC welcomes multifaith couples
The Flemington Jewish Community Center (FJCC) has formed an Interfaith Committee in response to the multi-faith families that are a growing component of America’s Jewish community. The FJCC’s goal is to find ways to...
From Mexico to the kibbutz: Teens retrace pioneers’ footsteps
“Go and help them make the tehina, they don’t know how,” a couple of Israeli teens are instructed atop the desert lookout point on which they are making dinner together with a large group...
IsraAID partners with Rome Jewish community to help frontline workers, volunteers
The Israeli humanitarian aid organization IsraAID is providing support to frontline medical professionals and volunteers in the organization’s emergency units responding to the coronavirus crisis in Italy with the launch of webinars on stress...
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Miriam “Mickey” Sokobin (1934-2017): Rabbi’s wife was linguist, volunteer
Miriam “Mickey” Sokobin, who embraced Toledo as home, becoming a language teacher in the Jewish community and a hospital volunteer, died Aug. 15 in ProMedica Ebeid Hospice Residence, Sylvania. She was 83.
She learned she...