Tag: Jewish community
After Texas, Jewish security network launches ‘Be Aware’ community training program
The Secure Community Network—the safety and security organization of the Jewish community—launched a new training program to help protect community members from violence in the aftermath of the Texas hostage crisis that took place...
In aftermath of deadly Bronx fire, Jewish community offers food, staples and compassion
Orthodox Jewish groups have been mobilizing to assist residents of a high-rise apartment building in the Bronx, N.Y., after a Sunday-morning fire killed 17 people—eight of them children—in what’s being called the worst fire...
Biden offers holiday greetings to Jewish leaders, questioned over visit to Pittsburgh synagogue
U.S. President Joe Biden may have gotten himself in hot water during a well-meaning teleconference with Jewish religious leaders in advance of the High Holidays on Thursday.
The teleconference was facilitated by the Central Conference...
Suspect seen on surveillance video smashing window of Brooklyn Jewish school
Surveillance camera footage in Brooklyn, N.Y., caught a suspect in the act as she used a hammer to break a glass window at a Jewish school building.
The video, shared by the Twitter account Williamsburg News on Tuesday,...
OU awards $100,000 to 35 synagogues for initiatives to welcome back congregants
The Orthodox Union has awarded $100,000 in grants to 35 synagogues in 15 U.S. states and one Canadian province in an effort to bring communities back to shul as more people are vaccinated against...
Belgian government decides to remove army protection from Jewish sites
The head of the European Jewish Association (EJA) said on Wednesday that the Belgian government’s decision to remove army protection at Jewish institutions makes “zero sense” and leaves Jews “wide open with a target on...
To confront anti-Semitism, advocates say it’s time for Jews to unite, mobilize and take...
Tens of thousands of people logged onto their computers at 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thursday to make it clear that they will no longer stand by as Jews are assaulted, harassed, threatened,...
Can a disaster breed Jewish unity or widen the communal breach?
There is nothing positive to be gleaned from an event that led to the deaths of 45 Jews and injuring of 150 others. The wake of a fatal stampede in the early hours of...
Largest city in Africa gets its first full-time rabbi
When Mendy Sternbach first traveled to Nigeria from Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2014 as a 21-year-old rabbinical student to help out for the High Holidays, he didn’t expect that one day he would be putting down...
Remembering the Jewish lives lost to COVID-19
Reality dawned slowly, painfully. In mid-March, it suddenly became clear that the novel coronavirus that first ravaged China, and then parts of Europe, was becoming a global pandemic. Five months later, the death toll...