By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–A clip is circulating among alumni of the Fall River Jewish community that has Cantor Marcus Gerlich along with the Temple Beth El choir. singing Kol Nidre, It brings back memories from the best of my Jewish youth. Cantor Gerlich was a fine teacher and role model, who saw me and many others through […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion, Middle EastAmid tight security, worshipers invited to special sukkah by chief rabbis, rabbi of the Western Wall By Times of Israel staff Thousands of people gather at the Western Wall for the Priestly Blessing on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 (Israel Police) Thousands of Israelis flocked to the Western Wall in Jerusalem Wednesday, for the traditional biannual
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe Jewish community of France reacted with outrage to the call of far-right politician Marine Le Pen to ban the kippah. Meyer Habib, a Jewish member of the French parliament, spoke with Arutz Sheva about Le Pen’s proposed kippah ban. “She is confused and mistaken. It isn’t kippahs or burkas or crosses that are causing
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International, Jewish ReligionA planned circumcision in the city of Bnei Brak descended into chaos on Tuesday when the father of the newborn boy snatched the baby up and bolted in an attempt to thwart his son from undergoing the traditional Jewish operation. The father, a formerly religious man, is adamantly opposed to his son taking part in
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe chief of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, has received “death threats” after she criticized a series of controversial Arab-backed resolutions which seek to erase the Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations organization said on Monday. “The director general has received death
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe day before Yom Kippur, my mom and I wander down Flushing Avenue in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, looking for Cohn Live Poultry. We know we have the right place when we hear the clucking. A semi-trailer truck is parked outside the warehouse, piled high with cages, and crammed with chickens — chickens that
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Jewish Religion, USALOS ANGELES — With just minutes remaining before the beginning of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur at sunset, a federal judge on Tuesday lifted a temporary restraining order that had banned the slaughter of chickens as part of an ancient atonement rite but allowed the lawsuit that triggered the order to go forward. United Poultry
By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, Califoria –With the Judgment pending (perceived as a moral threshold by most Jews, a time for cleansing souls), Yom Kippur is really one of the rare times of the year when our spiritual community actual ponders evil straight on. Most of the year, we’re thinking about good works. We’re just
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Jewish ReligionRabbi Mendel Deitsch, a longtime Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in France and more recently in Israel, was brutally attacked at Zhitomir”s central train station early Friday morning. After the attack, Deitsch was found and transported to a local hospital. The motive for the attack remains unknown. Violent anti-Semitic attacks in Ukraine are rare, and there is no
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International, Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO– The people are about to enter the land. After forty years of wandering and waiting, they have prepared themselves and built a close relationship with G-d. It is now time to enter the land and serve G-d through both the spiritual and physical aspects of man. Before they enter,
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Jewish ReligionKids from Newark club and Kushner day school inaugural visitors Mayor Ras Baraka, right, cuts the ceremonial ribbon with Manischewitz CEO David Sugarman, surrounded by children from the Boys and Girls Club of Newark and students from Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School. PHOTOS BY JOHANNA GINSBERG All decked out in their official touring gear, Mayor
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Seventy-five years later, Lazar Abramovitch finally had his bar mitzvah on Thursday, Oct. 6, at a special ceremony held at Jewish Family Service’s Jacobs Family Campus. Abramovitch, 88, had hoped to celebrate the advent of Jewish adulthood on his 13th birthday, but the German Nazi invasion of the
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In the space of an afternoon, Tifereth Israel Synagogue developed an enthusiastic corps of some 40 shofar blowers ready to sound off during Yom Kippur services Oct. 11 and 12. It all started when Olga Worm, a former president of the Conservative congregation’s Sisterhood signed up to blow
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyNew year’s greetings poured in from around the world Sunday as Jews celebrated Rosh Hashanah — the beginning of the year 5777. President Barack Obama reflected on the “great privilege” of working with the Jewish community in his final Rosh Hashanah message as president. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, also delivered Rosh Hashanah
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