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Defunct synagogue from once-proud community collapses in Pennsylvania coal region
19 Feb 2026 01:41 GMT
… synagogue and, in the 1930s, a Jewish cemetery. Like many small-town Jewish … sold its Torah scrolls and offered ritual items to functioning synagogues outside … any synagogue’s demise touches on Jewish feelings of historical loss.
“American Jews …
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"The Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: Cultural Dimensions": Part 1.1
19 Feb 2026 00:54 GMT
… and the Muscovite Tsardom. Jews and Christians derived metaphors … providence in synagogue art sublimated the traumatic Jewish experience of …
Fig. 16. Kremienets, synagogue: the Torah Ark, early 19th century. … allegory of the Jew in medieval Jewish art, see: …
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D’var Torah: The Giving of Abilities, Time and Devotion
18 Feb 2026 19:44 GMT
… Howard Meyer
This week’s Torah portion is Terumah: Exodus 25 … April by the Academy for Jewish Religion. A long-time resident …
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The least Jewish thing about the Western Wall is how Israel's government treats women
18 Feb 2026 19:41 GMT
On Wednesday, after attempting to read the Torah at the Western Wall, the Women of the Wall feminist prayer group released a video of the commotion that ensued. It is cacophonous, with layers of overlapping voices and noise: the women calling out the …
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Roswell is rife with UFOs, scorpions and conspiracy theories — but few Jews
18 Feb 2026 19:37 GMT
… weren’t for an Ashkenazi Jew named Stanton T. Friedman, … set out before there were Jews.
In November, Loeb released … search for “Roswell” and “Jewish” reveals three synagogues in Roswell, Georgia — a … sell it.”
The community’s Torah, meanwhile, has found a new …
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A defunct synagogue, reminder of a once-proud community, collapses in Pennsylvania’s coal region
18 Feb 2026 18:08 GMT
… synagogue and, in the 1930s, a Jewish cemetery. Like many small-town Jewish … sold its Torah scrolls and offered ritual items to functioning synagogues outside … any synagogue’s demise touches on Jewish feelings of historical loss.
“American Jews …
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The creation of sacred spaces through Judaism
18 Feb 2026 17:52 GMT
… go to pray in a synagogue.
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The ultimate and inevitable … Yetzirah, or Foundation Rock, Jewish tradition suggests that it was … so essential to what Judaism stands for?
Judaism has never suggested … a person who interrupts his Torah study by exclaiming: “How …
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Just as in the Torah, living our lives out of order
18 Feb 2026 17:52 GMT
By Dr. Alan Mazurek, Jewish Star columnist
The saying in … , alphabetically or chronologically.
In Torah study, the idea that events … the view that generally the Torah is presented in chronological … in our Batei Knessiyot, our synagogues, till such time when the …
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The History of the Jews of Brazil — the Oldest Jewish Community in the Americas
18 Feb 2026 17:25 GMT
… Lisbon. He had the Jew convert to Catholicism and … called O Judeu — The Jew.
The End of Official … estimated 1,500 Jews and banned Judaism. The synagogue is now open … numerous publications on Torah, Jewish History, and Contemporary Jewish Topics. Rabbi Levine …
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Invest in These Things If You Care about Jewish Survival
18 Feb 2026 17:28 GMT
… Now Hurting Us
The Torah refers to Jews as an “am … there, in modern times Jewish organizations have not adequately responded … 15 million Jews in the world – many linked to Judaism only by … protect Jews and keep out politicians who have now normalized Jew- …