Jewish religion

There are humans who claim that certain real estate parcels are special. They call them “Blessed” in English, “Qadosh” in Hebrew or “Muqadas” in Arabic; they all mean meaning sacred, holy, spiritual, inviolable. The sanctity of the…

AuthorDonald Harrison. Photo by Sandi Masori Finding at least one Jewish story every time you exit the Mexican border into Old Town San Diego, veteran journalist Donald H. Harrison's book Schlepping and Schmoozing along Interstate…

In the 1972 Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder, Amish Americans challenged Wisconsin's Compulsory Education Law, which required children to attend public or private school until age sixteen. They argued the law threatened their…

On May 5, 2022, the modern Jewish state of Israel will celebrate its 74th anniversary.From this momentous historical event, at least two religious ideologies emerge reflecting the notion of 'Geulah-Redemption.' This theological concept is…

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(Photo: Getty/iStock) Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster examines Jewish approaches to conversion and how…

From prayer notes in the Western Wall to texts in synagogues, the Jewish tradition of safeguarding sacred scripture can provide a window into life through the ages.At Jerusalem's Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, pieces of…

Shimshon Izakson in a Jewish center in Chisinau. (Jewish Community of Moldova) A familiar accent goes a long way for refugees who have struggled to communicate with Israeli, American and other non-Russian-speaking…

Second Gentleman Douglas EmhoffOfficial White House Photo by Cameron Smith Doug EmhofDoug Emhof opens with his historic role as America's second gentleman and as the first Jewish wife of a president or vice president.Talk to Politics in a…

By DEEPA BHARATH "Good morning! Happy morning!" Rabbi Avraham Wolff exclaimed, with a big smile, as he entered the Chabad synagogue in Odessa one recent morning. Russian missiles had just hit an oil refinery in the Ukrainian city, turning…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One of the world's largest moderate Islam advocacy groups says the time for sterile talk and dialogue is over - instead, the world needs concrete action.The Secretary General of the Muslim World…

Leaders of the Jewish Federation of Madison (JFM) returned home April 5 after a whirlwind visit to the Ukraine-Poland border and four refugee centers in and around Warsaw. JFM Executive Director Alan Klugman and President Joe Shumow spent…

CHICAGO — Chicago's Tzedek Synagogue has voted to adopt anti-Zionism as a "core value," becoming the first known American congregation to officially take such a stance. Members of Tzedek, a non-denominational congregation founded in…

French politician Marine Le Pen, candidate of the National Rally in the 2022 presidential election, has joined i24NEWS on Sunday evening to discuss a series of important issues for the Jewish community. Faced with the rise of Islamism in…

Rooted in Egyptian mythology, Moon Knight is a character defined by his religious roots. However, he's not alone within Marvel Comics and the MCU. The latest Marvel Cinematic Universe…

How the Jews of Jamaica celebrate Passover as one big family, plus a delicious charoset recipe. Jews and Jamaica. You might not think there are many similarities to these words or communities besides the fact that they both start with…

CHISINAU, Moldova — Olena Khorenjenko rolled her eyes at the thought of the Nazis controlling her homeland, the baseless Russian claim President Vladimir Putin to defend its deadly military assault on Ukraine. A Kyiv-born Orthodox Jew,…

Enrollment in non-Orthodox rabbinical seminaries has been on a downward trajectory for years, but the data shows a particularly alarming trend for schools affiliated with major Jewish movements. While the total number of students studying…

Yehuda Kurtzer By Yehuda Kurtzer After decades of fearing that we would forget the horrors of our recent past, I am beginning to fear the opposite possibility: that we Jews remember our history too well but feel powerless to learn from…

Shimon HaTzadik (the Righteous) was a high priest during the Second Temple period. He said, “The world stands on three things: on Torah, on prayer, and on acts of kindness. Later commentators would add that these three principles were…

The Sunday funeral of a revered rabbi in Israel drew half a million mourners dressed in traditional ultra-Orthodox clothing, turning the streets of a religious suburb of Tel Aviv into a sea of ​​black. The roads…

Photo credit: CourtesyRabbi Warren Goldstein Like many other South African Jews, Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein's great-grandparents emigrated from Lithuania. Born in 1971, Rabbi Goldstein grew up in Pretoria and…

MPs have backed an amendment to the government's Animal Welfare Bill which mandates a committee to review policy decisions to uphold religious traditions such as shechita. In a move that was hailed by Shechita UK, the Commons voted on…

Arrangements for services are being made by the family and will be at the Temple at 1589 Peachtree St. at 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, a family spokesperson said.Born August 26, 1927, Samuel Alan Massell Jr. spent the first month of his life…

"I said, 'Yes, I want it,'" Vaspi said in English.She swooped down the slopes like a Vermont native ski bird, showing enough promise to convince Erez Foundation volunteers like Pezaro to invest in her potential. They loved that Vaspi…

Photo credit: Noam Revkin Fenton / Flash 90Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau In anticipation of a massive influx of Ukrainian refugees hoping to gain citizenship, Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau announced…

Alisa Peskin-Berger Alisa Peskin-Shepherd divides major divorce issues into three categories - emotional, financial and legal. ALisa Peskin-Shepherd faced divorce issues within her own family, and they sparked a…

Argentinian journalist Javier Sinay's family memoir, "The Moisés Ville Murders: The Rise and Fall of South America's Jerusalem," is as fascinating as it is eccentric - a journey that begins in the impoverished Jewish communities of late…

Various nonpartisan and distinguished sources like PEW research acknowledge more than 4000 established religions in the world — most of whom approve of abortions, especially when the pregnancy would endanger the life of the mother.A recent…

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Park East Synagogue, the Manhattan congregation that made headlines when it fired an assistant rabbi in what was reported as a succession fight, is seeking a successor for its nonagenarian!-->…

Evangelists of the autonomous future of cars often say that their arrival is inevitable, that people would be much happier minding other business than wasting time driving a car.Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promoting the promise of Tesla's…

by ERIC STEEL Minian (Cert. 15) derives its title from the Jewish practice of requiring a quorum of ten adults present for religious occasions. The almost tableau-like film opens with a funeral prayer for David's (Samuel H. Levine)…

FEDERATION 411 By ohtadmin | to February 23, 2022 JENNIFER DUBROW WEISSCEO of the Jewish Federation February marks Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month, otherwise!-->…

Putin accuses West of threatening Russia, may recognize separatist rebels Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Western powers are using Moscow's feud with Ukraine to threaten Russia's own security and said he is…

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After the attack on a Jewish synagogue in Texas last month I read an essay by Deborah Lipstadt, a professor at Emory University in Georgia. She is Jewish and started the play with what is apparently a common Jewish prayer of blessing:…

The main dictionary of standard German has changed its definition of Jew, or "Jude" in German, after a recent update sparked an outcry in the country's Jewish communityThrough KRISTEN GRIESHABER Associated PressFebruary 16, 2022, 1:23…

(RNS) - Rabbi Avi Olitzky was 26 when he started working at the Beth El Synagogue in Minneapolis straight after seminary. Over the past 14 years, he has helped build the synagogue with its distinctive curved roof into one of the largest…

Saskia Aukema knew little about her great-aunt Annie, who was murdered during the Holocaust. All she knew was that Annie refused to go into hiding like her siblings and continued to work as a hospital nurse, even after the Nazi occupation…

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Five Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers have joined a lawsuit challenging the city's vaccine requirements for indoor spaces. Two of the plaintiffs are rabbis from yeshivas. The lawsuit, filed!-->…

It is a tradition for the ASU community to come together to celebrate the annual Interfaith Harmony Week during the first week of February. First introduced by the The United…

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Whoopi Goldberg's recent misstep on "The View" in which she said the Holocaust "wasn't about race" got her into hot water online.Goldberg has come under fire for comments she appears to have taken to heart, apologizing and bringing the CEO…

TOMS RIVER — The township has moved closer to resolving a longstanding religious land use lawsuit, agreeing to mediate a dispute involving a former egg farm on Highway 9.Mediation between township officials and representatives of developer…

At January 15a 44-year-old Briton held four people hostage in a Texas synagogue, including the rabbi. Later in the weekan FBI director called the attack an act of anti-Semitism.…

In 1966, I was a student at the Boston University School of Social Work when I received a phone call from a college friend. She explained to me in a low voice that she needed an abortion and thought I could help her. At that time, I…

One night this week, my family and I were walking down the street when a person walking the other way turned around, snickered, and said, “Hey, you naughty Jews. At no time did we feel physically threatened, but this moment was…

July 22, Jessie Sander was fired from her job as a Hebrew teacher in the education program at Westchester Reform Temple, a top congregation in Scarsdale, New York. According to a legal complaint obtained by Jewish streamsthe…

The brother of the British terrorist who attacked a Texas synagogue on January 15 and took four people hostage said his brother had been radicalized by "religious lunatics" and called on Muslim community leaders and authorities to…

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According to Islam, there has really only been one true religion, that is, the message of Allah (SWT), submission to the will of Allah (SWT). This is called Islam. It was the religion preached by…

Is it okay to fire a Muslim limo driver for not helping transport a package containing wine? Is it okay to fire a Jewish cook for refusing to cook pork? Is it okay to fire a Christian carer hired to help a new mother and her…

NEW YORK, January 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council released the following…

The Voices page contained two articles on the same day this week that argued their authors did not believe it was anti-Semitism for the dean of Bowen Law School at the University of Arkansas Little Rock to tell the Jewish professor…

RABBI ELIZABETH HERSHJanuary 13, 2022What inspires you? How are you empowered? The Beshalach portion of the Torah teaches us the importance of faith, patience, and action. We read about the importance of keeping your word and the…

As Senate Democrats seek ways to confirm Deborah E. Lipstadt's appointment as the State Department's special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, amid Republican objections, experts wonder if the Raising the post to the rank of…

Hannah Dreyfus, an investigative journalist, has spent the past six years both as a member of the Jewish…

We went through our first difficult winter of COVID-19 in 2020-21, and a considerable amount of music was…

JERUSALEM - When Israel's new government took office last June, it signaled it was moving forward on an egalitarian prayer site at the Western Wall in Jerusalem - a sensitive holy place that has become a sticking point among the Jews on how…

Maybe it was because I had just picked up Kim from Union Station in Kansas City and had time to reflect on the grim symbolism of an actual WWII German freight car temporarily installed at the outside.…

It was recently reported that Jewish students at Tel Aviv University are protesting against a "Christmas Market" event held on December 15 on the university campus. The Christmas market is part of an ongoing series of multicultural events…

JTA - As Danny Tenenbaum prepares to open debates in the Montana Legislature on March 29, he said to himself: better keep it short. So he sang the Shema prayer. He had other ideas for the invocation, he told the Jewish Telegraphic…

The first Christmas marked the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. The stage was set in Bethlehem, a small town in Judea. The cast included Joseph, Mary, shepherds and angels. The Baby Jesus is at…

(JTA) - Desmond Tutu, the archbishop who closely identified with the historic suffering of the Jewish people in his strong advocacy against apartheid in South Africa, died Sunday at the age of 90. Tutu, Cape Town's first!-->…

(RNS) - Relations between Muslims and Christians are strained around the world, in the United States and even in Congress. But at Christmas, the two faith communities whose combined size represents more than half of humanity can turn to…

From January 22 to 30, Theater for the New City will present the New Yiddish Rep's production of "Di Froyen" (Women), based on the play "Women's Minyan" by Naomi Ragen, adapted for the Yiddish Rep by Melissa Weisz and Malky goldman. The…

An 82-year-old Jewish woman, who is the subject of a Labor Party investigation for suspected anti-Semitism for the third time in less than three years, threatens legal action against the party, claiming it illegally discriminated against…

A diversity and inclusion student senator from the University of Southern California tweeted, "I want to kill every fucking Zionist king" in May, along with several other views considered anti-Semitic.In May, Yasmeen Mashayekh, a diversity…

Former President Donald Trump in a Newsmax interview in which he claimed to have brought back the use of the phrase "Merry ChristmasIn a bizarre interview between the presenter of Newsmax Mike Huckabee and former president Donald trump, the…

Upon hearing that I had recently written a book on Leonard Cohen, someone asked me why I thought Bob Dylan had received the Nobel Prize for Literature rather than Cohen. Not being a member of the Nobel Prize jury, I…

"Moral blindness" The opinion piece by rabbis Nancy H. Wiener and Lester Bronstein ("Banning the boycott of Ben & Jerry is a distraction that makes anti-Semitism harder to fight," December 7) reveals its true colors when it refers…

Theater producer Emanuel Azenberg likes to tell this story about the time, over 30 years ago, when "Jerome Robbins's Broadway" was in rehearsal. The show, which Azzenberg was co-producing, was a collection of brilliant musical numbers from…

PLYMOUTH - Rabbi Estelle Mills had big shoes to fill to take over as spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Jacob last summer.His predecessor, Rabbi Lawrence Silverman, had held the position for over four decades and was an institution in…

WASHINGTON (JTA) - Amy Coney Barrett, the new Supreme Court justice, asked a Maine state official how he would treat a school that bases its teachings on the 'Judeo-Palestinian' conflict on how it considered the Jews.!-->…

Emhoff hosted a virtual Passover dinner earlier this year, lit the first menorah at the vice president's residence, and was the first to affix a mezuzah to the door.Vacations to the White House and the Vice President's Residence have been…

BOISE - Anti-Semitic graffiti was painted overnight in three tunnels…

Rabbi Jeffrey Abraham, Congregation B'nai AmoonaDecember 3, 2021Our Torah portion this week, Parashat Miketz, focuses on Joseph's rise to power and what happens when he meets his brothers after a long hiatus. I have always focused on…

Attendance rose 8% from last year at Jewish schools in the Milwaukee area, reflecting a partial rebound from the start of the pandemic. “This year's census shows growth, despite the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Tzipi…

TEHRAN (IQNA) - A Jewish rabbi in New York says some people are afraid to express their support for Palestine for fear of anti-Semitic labels, but they know there is a difference between Judaism and Zionism. "There are a lot of…

The ancient Hebrew calendar determines when Chanukah is celebrated - not the Gregorian calendar - which is why the dates change from year to year. In 2021, the holiday will be celebrated from sunset on November 28 to sunset on December 6.…

The Old City of Jerusalem is both magical and cursed. He is filled with so much hope, but so much suffering. The Jewish people had waited thousands of years to walk these streets again, just to be near a Shechinah square.Our people have…

Josh Frydenberg needs 24/7 protection due to fanatic threats over his Jewish faith, PM revealsTreasurer Josh Frydenberg has needed a security detail for about two years He became the first treasurer to be assigned 24/7 to close…

After Everything Jewish, a place where people of the Jewish faith could come to buy religious items, burned down last year, leaders decided to move Operation Chabad of Oregon from southwest Portland to a building they owned. bought in the…

Matthew Falcone remembers the first time he saw the majestic stained glass shrine of the Rodef Shalom congregation in Shadyside. Falcone moved to Pittsburgh about 12 years ago and, although he is familiar with the dark and often…

Elani Markewitz, 10, left, and her sister Nora, 8, watch the writing of the new Torah, which has been commissioned for the new synagogue in Twinsburg.TWINSBURG - Those of the Jewish faith will soon have a place of worship in…

By Judith Sudilovsky • Catholic Information Service • Posted on November 18, 2021 JERUSALEM (CNS) - The Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem urged the Israeli police to "seriously investigate" a November 15 incident…

SÃO PAULO, Brazil (JTA) - As you stroll down Rua Martinho Prado in downtown São Paulo, it's hard to miss Beth-El Temple. The small hexagonal building, adorned with Hebrew scriptures on its walls, which has remained almost unchanged…

The words of the Shema prayer, arguably the most fundamental liturgical statement in Judaism, are generally not associated with the art of magic. But the arrival of a 1,500-year-old silver armband bearing some of the words from the…

Take a look at the cast of Apple TV's latest comedy + "The Shrink Next Door". Or that of Amazon "The wonderful Mrs. Maisel"or" Transparent ".What do all of these shows have in common? A bunch of non-Jews are playing Jewish characters.…

08 November 2021 Are you there god It's me, Marguerite Number the stars Anne Frank's Diary Sometimes I cringe watching organizations that promote various books or empowerment books for children, because often when a book with Jewish…