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Arsonist sets fire to Florida Jewish center, but police do not believe it was a hate crime
By Terry Spencer — March 19, 2024
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Hannaford is a homeless man “who appears to suffer from mental illness” and the fire is not believed to be a hate crime, the police statement said.
Man fires shotgun outside Jewish temple in upstate New York as Hanukkah begins, no one injured
By Maysoon Khan — December 8, 2023
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The gunfire outside Temple Israel happened at around 2 p.m. and a 28-year-old man was in custody, according to officials.
“And in the end, the love you take”
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 28, 2023
My final sermon -- a mix tape with Sinatra, the Monotones, Rav Kook, and Cynthia Ozick. More than four decades of striving for the holy.
New Capital Jewish Museum ‘connects the past to the present’ in downtown DC
By Adelle M. Banks — June 2, 2023
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The museum will house a collection — rooted in the archive of the former Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington — of more than 24,000 photographs and more than 1,000 objects.
US rabbi reviving Jewish roots in her family’s Italian town
By Frances D'emilio — July 20, 2022
SERRASTRETTA, Italy (AP) — Ordained at the Rabbinical Seminary International in New York, she served at a synagogue in Florida for a few years before moving to Italy, where she first worked as a rabbi in Milan from 2004-2005.
First known depictions of biblical heroines Jael and Deborah uncovered in Israel
By Kathryn Post — July 13, 2022
(RNS) — A rendering of one figure driving a peg through the head of another initially led the team to identify the figures.
Does God make sense?
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 24, 2022
A challenging new book wants a God that we can believe in. Who is the "we"?
Now in spotlight, Dubai Jews struggle for public synagogue
By Isabel Debre — May 11, 2022
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Plans to build a permanent sanctuary for Dubai's fast-expanding congregation have sputtered to a standstill, Jewish leaders say.
California bill could make it easier for houses of faith to build affordable housing
By Alejandra Molina — February 28, 2022
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, a Democrat in Oakland, introduced a piece of legislation on Feb. 16 that would reduce residential parking requirements for newly built religious institutions to allow for the construction of housing.
How I learned to pray from Power Point
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 27, 2022
You add slides. You delete slides. You edit the slides. And sometimes, you hide slides. That is life.
During the Colleyville crisis, the sounds of silence
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 18, 2022
(RNS) — It’s about the crickets.
Yes, this was about the Jews
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 16, 2022
(RNS) — Don’t gaslight the Jews. We know exactly what happened in Colleyville.
Reader: What do you think of responsive readings? Congregation: Yawn
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 11, 2022
(RNS) — If you have ever found responsive readings to be boring ...
Was Mary Magdalene really from Magdala? Two scholars examine the evidence
By Yonat Shimron — January 7, 2022
(RNS) — The two scholars suggest Magdalene may well be an honorific from the Hebrew and Aramaic words meaning ‘tower’ or ‘magnify.’
California synagogue shooting suspect pleads guilty
By Associated Press — July 21, 2021
SAN DIEGO (AP) — John T. Earnest called 911 to say he had shot up a synagogue because Jews were trying to ‘destroy all white people,’ authorities said.
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