Synagogues & Ritual

2+ hour, 33+ min ago   (542+ words) After decades of silence and uncertainty, a historic Jewish landmark in the Crimean Peninsula is once again coming to life. The ancient “Ner Tamid” Synagogue in Simferopol, which stood in spiritual desolation for more than six decades, is currently undergoing…...

9+ hour, 19+ min ago   (72+ words) Audacy Ask your smart speaker to Chad Benson Show Podcast The Mid-Morning Mike Check Ask the Expert North Texas Brad Sham Cowboys Report Own the Road with Kelli and Bob A crisis is shaking Brazil’s Supreme Court. Here’s what to…...

13+ hour, 50+ min ago   (234+ words) Torahs were returned to the ark at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., on Friday night, as congregants gathered in the synagogue’s sanctuary for the first time since a March terrorist attack. “Welcome home,” Cantor Neil Michaels told the…...

20+ hour, 12+ min ago   (187+ words) Jonathan Cahn revisits last year’s Rapture scare and reveals the Feast of Trumpets’ true prophetic significance....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (153+ words) The Salt Lake Tribune Temple in Park City is vandalized before Jewish community celebrates its holiest holidays The temple’s sign was vandalized in the run-up to the High Holy Days. (Deb Sheldon via The Park Record) A sign at Park…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (747+ words) Rabbi Neil Amswych, Mayor Michael Garcia and City Councilor Jamie Cassutt during an Aug. 8 party celebrating Temple Beth Shalom's 70th anniversary. The folks who established Santa Fe's first Jewish temple might be called pragmatists: The modest synagogue they built on East…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (19+ words) At a time when religious values are under attack, it is more important than ever to safeguard the sanctuary....

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1841+ words) Work crews affixed a row of black metal fence posts into cement around the front and along both sides of Beth Tzedec Congregation in midtown Toronto on Sept. 10, laying the foundation for a new permanent security fence at Canada’s largest…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (564+ words) How the image of Holocaust survivors changed SA royals champion stronger ties with Israel Olim look forward to first Rosh Hashanah in Israel Israel cricket team not bowled out by hostility in Finland The issues on the minds of Israeli…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (544+ words) (Courtesy of Orthodox Union) In Lodz, Poland, currently home to roughly 100 Jews, keeping kosher can require far more than checking for a familiar symbol on a package. Kosher products are available, said resident Dawid Gurfinkiel but the options are limited....