Religion
by Ben Sales, JTA | 7 hours ago | Community, Community Resources, LGBT, Religion
(JTA) — Some college students who think about becoming rabbis aren’t sure whether they will want to work in a synagogue or school. Others get hung up on which seminary to attend or denomination to join. Lior Gross had a different dilemma: How to speak Hebrew in... read more
by Carol Sorgen | Nov 15, 2018 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Education, Elderly, Family, Parenting, Religion, Spirituality
“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.” –Psalm 133:1 Not long ago, Dr. Terris A. King, senior pastor of Ashburton’s Liberty Grace Church of God, reached out to Beth Tfiloh Congregation’s Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg. The... read more
by Josefin Dolsten, JTA | Nov 13, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Religion, Spirituality
(JTA) — The death toll and damage continue to rise in California in the wildfires ravaging the state. More than 6,400 homes have been damaged and at least 31 people have been killed, according to CNN. Like other Californians, Jewish residents are evacuating their... read more
by Hillel Kuttler, JTA | Nov 9, 2018 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Elderly, Religion
JERUSALEM (JTA) – For decades as an adult, Lore Mayerfeld kept a doll on a chair in an off-limits bedroom or high on a shelf. Her children – and later her grandchildren and great-grandchildren – knew not to play with the toy for fear of breaking it. Dressed in... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | Nov 9, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Religion
KALININGRAD, Russia (JTA) — Walking to school and back, Michael Wieck twice a day would pass by one of Europe’s largest and most spectacular Jewish places of worship: Koenigsberg’s New Synagogue. The mammoth shul was built in 1896 in the Aesopian style in the... read more
by Aliza Friedlander | Oct 31, 2018 | Community, Religion
Chizuk Amuno’s new senior rabbi cherishes the sanctity of community and the tenets of Conservative Judaism. As a teenager, Rabbi Joshua Z. Gruenberg admits he didn’t dream of being a pulpit rabbi. Basketball, rather than the bimah, was usually on his mind. “I thought... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | Oct 29, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Religion
BRUSSELS (JTA) — Will security at American Jewish institutions now mirror that of Europe, with its police protection, armed guards, panic rooms and sterile zones at synagogues? It’s a possibility that is being debated more seriously than ever before following the Tree... read more
by JMORE Staff | Oct 29, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Family, Gallery ONLY, Religion, Spirituality
On Oct. 25, the Jewish Federation of Howard County joined hundreds of other Jewish communities around the world for the “Great Challah Bake.” A program of the federation’s FEDWomen Division, the Challah Bake was held at Laurel Park and drew more than 250... read more
by Ron Kampeas, JTA | Oct 29, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Milestones, Religion
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — The day after the killings, a man who brings Jewish boys into the covenant and escorts the Jewish dead to their final resting place finally got to fulfill the mitzvah of shmira, keeping watch over the bodies. The day after the killings, women... read more
by Rabbi Elissa Sachs-Kohen | Oct 28, 2018 | Community, Religion, Spirituality
The late Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wrote: Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. This one time upon the earth, let’s not speak any language, let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be a delicious moment, without hurry,... read more
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