Tag: Synagogue
The price of checking your ‘white privilege’ may be high
It’s the sort of story that makes Jewish hearts swell with pride. As the Jewish News of Northern California reported, a group of Jewish teenagers from Temple Beth Abraham, a Conservative synagogue in Oakland, Calif., set out to...
New York state allows opening of some synagogues, though not in five boroughs
New York Gov. Mario Cuomo announced that congregations can return to their houses of worship this week in most of New York State, though New York City residents will have to wait a bit...
Which rights take precedence in a pandemic turned civil crisis?
The United States Supreme Court ruled last week that religious services were not exempt from government restrictions on free assembly in a pandemic. Only a few days later, what might have seemed like fair...
LA city councilmember condemns targeting of Jewish institutions during protests
Following the May 30 riots in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles—part of nationwide protests after the May 25 death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American, while in police custody in Minneapolis—Los Angeles City...
UK chief rabbi: ‘Synagogues will not open for a long time’
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis projected on Thursday that all houses of worship affiliated with the United Synagogue—the largest network of Orthodox communities in the United Kingdom—“will not open for a...
Fauci to Orthodox Jews: Phase in communal prayer as virus restrictions are lifted
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, had a message on Thursday for Orthodox Jews: Phase in communal prayer as local coronavirus restrictions are being lifted.
“The kind of...
Biden marks year after Poway shooting, releases plan to address hate crimes
Former U.S. Vice President and presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden honored the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Chabad of Poway in Southern California, where a 60-year-old Lori Kaye was killed and three others injured on April 27,...
Third recent arson attack results in significant damage to Russia synagogue
A northern Russian synagogue was severely damaged on Sunday, during the holiday of Passover, in what was an apparent arson attack, according to the local Jewish community.
Although no one was hurt in the fire,...
New Rochelle synagogue members donate blood antibodies to fight COVID-19
Members of a congregation in New Rochelle, N.Y., began donating blood on Tuesday in an effort to help researchers who are creating a way to treat COVID-19.
The first several cases of coronavirus infection to...
Jewish organizations, schools, communities institute action, even close due to coronavirus
As Jews around the world were celebrating Purim, the specter of life under a global epidemic in the form of the coronavirus (COVID-19) was becoming clearer and more concerning.
In a letter to supporters on...