Daily Archives: May 16, 2017
Fire seriously damages historic Lower East Side synagogue
A fire seriously damaged a historic synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
The Sunday evening blaze at Beth Hamedrash Hagadol burned for several hours and took at least two hours for firefighters to bring under...
Trump to Be First Sitting President to Visit Kosel
President Donald Trump plans to be the first sitting American president to visit the Kosel, Times of Israel reported on Monday, citing sources in the administration involved in organizing the trip to Israel.
Other presidents...
Recorded Yiddish Books from the Sami Rohr Collection
Der 'Yiddish Book Center' fun Amherst, Massachusets (noent tzu di shtot Boston), hobn mir gebetn aykh ibertzugebn vegn dem oysfarkoif fun IDISHE AUDIO-BIJER mit verk fun Sholem Ash; I.B. Zinger; Rojl Aoyerbaj; I.L.Peretz; Sholem...
The Chief Rabbi And The Archbishop: Pushing Beyond Interfaith Clichés
It was moving to see one of the world’s most important Christian leaders stand at Yad Vashem earlier this month, declaring that anti-Semitism should become so alien that it would be “something that is...
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Jewish Leaders Express Relief Over Trump Administration’s Disavowal of Claim That Western Wall Is...
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has welcomed a clarification from President Donald Trump’s administration that it does not regard the Western Wall in Jerusalem as a “part of the West...