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Daily Archives: August 5, 2017

Swastika, other anti-Semitic scrawls found at Colorado Springs Synagogue

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A swastika and other anti-Semitic messages were found spray-painted on a Colorado Springs synagogue Friday morning. Temple Beit Torah, 522 E. Madison St., and nearby cars, homes and buildings were vandalized, said police Sgt. Pamela...

Does the GOP forget what happened when America rejected Jews from Nazi Germany?

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Republican Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and David Perdue (Ga.), with the endorsement of the White House, released the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act on Wednesday. If passed, the bill would make...

Justice Souter, the First Amendment and the case of the synagogue standoff

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Thanks to the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, U.S. courts have to be extremely wary of taking sides in doctrinal disputes between religious groups. On the other hand, as retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David...

Hebrew school curriculum celebrates diversity of Jewish Culture

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Hebrew teacher Chana Zinstein, of Temple Emanuel of Pascack Valley, recently developed a new curriculum that explores the similarities and differences between Sephardic and Ashkenazi holiday minhagim, and how Jews from both Israel and...

Trip to Poland unexpectedly sparked pride in my Jewish identity

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I recently returned from a jam-packed 10-day trip to Poland as a guest of the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, on whose advisory board I am honored to serve. The trip was more than...

Doktores mata sanos

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Antes ochenta anyos no avia sentros medikales, klinikas para kurar los hazinos, laboratorios o sanatoriums. Si se topava una persona muerta, se dizía “le kayo la gota”, o “le kayo damla”, la djente estuvo...