In 1980, a Manhattan synagogue with a special outreach to unaffiliated Jews was looking for a catchy slogan to encourage young people to take on the rigors of Shabbat observance. Jesse Cogan, a synagogue member who was also a…
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Auschwitz survivors ask ‘never forget us’ on 80th anniversary of their liberation
The Conference for Jewish Material Claims against Germany (Claims Conference) is launching on Monday “I Survived Auschwitz: Remember This,” a new digital campaign featuring 80 Holocaust survivors who survived the death camp, which has become…Continue Reading
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Israeli flight attendant sues Delta, says fired for complaining about workplace antis
Another Israeli flight attendant has filed a lawsuit against Delta Airlines for discrimination against Jewish employees and alleged antisemitic behavior by co-workers.
In a lawsuit filed in late last month in a New York court, flight attendant…
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Young Jews working in theater industry subject to ‘loyalty tests’ over Israel
Acclaimed theater and film producer Sir Nicholas Hytner has said young Jewish workers in the industry are being subjected unsettling “loyalty tests” over their views on Israel.
Appearing at the Jewish Labour Movement’s annual conference in…
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Bologna Jewish leader says synagogue attack comes as criticism of Israel intensifies
Protesters in Bologna turned violent, targeting the city’s synagogue with vandalism and explosives in Saturday night demonstration in deliberate act of antisemitism, diverting attention from the protest’s original anti-police focus
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‘I can’t picture myself without going to the temple’: LA teens mourn their synagogue’s destruction
LOS ANGELES — The Shabbat service was in many ways standard fare: Hundreds of Jews gathered to light candles, sing prayers, rise for reflection and eat challah, together.
But there was a big, and unexpected, difference this…
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‘Just things’ — like what my LA neighbors have lost — are what makes houses into Jewish homes
The antique silver menorah. The shabbos candlesticks. The tiny tefillin set. The last remnants from Europe that my grandparents, all Holocaust survivors, managed to shlep to America. And I need to get them out of my house. Right…
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Jewish woman, 92, dies in Damascus, leaving only 8 Jews in Syria
The Chief Rabbinate for Syrian Jewry announced Sunday the passing of Hadiya Sittah, a 92-year-old Jewish woman who lived in Damascus.Sittah, who died a few days earlier, had no descendants. Her death leaves just eight Jewish individuals in…
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Guatemala Supreme Court to hear Lev Tahor child abuse case
After several Guatemalan courts refused to deliberate on the condition of over 200 women and children rescued from the Lev Tahor sect compound last month, the country’s Supreme Court decided to begin hearing the case, but no date for the hearings…Continue Reading
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Celebrating Shabbat in Los Angeles: Amid the fires, a still, small voice
So many questions swirled in my head, like burning embers caught up in the wind, each one demanding urgent attention. Will the power be on at the shul, or will we need to accept one of the many kind invitations to join another…
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