Tag: Synagogue
Firefighters rescue Torah scrolls from historic Duluth synagogue, now fallen
Firefighters managed to salvage Torah scrolls from a 120-year-old synagogue in Duluth, Minn., before an overnight fire on Monday that started in a storage room wound up destroying the building.
Leaders of Adas Israel Congregation,...
Central New York’s oldest synagogue to be sold and replaced by student housing
Members of central New York’s oldest Jewish congregation and the ninth oldest in the United States, Temple Concord, voted on Sunday to sell the 108-year-old building for $9 million to a developer of luxury...
Friends of the IDF donate $60,000 to rebuild synagogue destroyed by Hamas rocket
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) supporters Fred and Jeannette Bogart of Boca Raton, Fla., and New York donated $60,000 to rebuild the synagogue on the Israel Defense Forces’ Kissufim Base, home to...
Man sentenced to three years in prison for vandalism at Indiana synagogue
A 21-year-old man was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison for vandalizing a synagogue last year in Carmel, Ind.
Nolan Brewer pleaded guilty to the federal hate crime for spray-paintinga large Nazi flag and...
Israeli minister links Chabad synagogue shooting and anti-Semitic ‘Times’ cartoon
In a Facebook post about Saturday’s synagogue shooting in Poway, Calif., Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan claimed the shooter had been influenced by a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon that appeared last week in The New York Times.
Erdan...