The Times of Israel29d
After bomb threat during Yom Kippur service, Manhattan synagogue prayed on street
New York Jewish Week via JTA — Shortly ... In an email to the synagogue choir sent Monday afternoon, Cantor Shayna Postman wrote that she initially thought someone had fainted when she saw ...
Religion News Service29d
Going home again: A childhood synagogue, a Talmudic classroom and 'Our Town'
The show Edward Albee once dubbed “the greatest American play ever written” was called last week by The New York Times “unbearable ... My father had been the cantor there for 30 years ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency5d
20 Jewish cantors walk into a church — it’s no joke
The concert, titled “To God’s Ears,” was organized by the New York-based Interreligious ... in Jewish culture and Jewish synagogue culture,” said Cantor Roslyn Barak of Temple Emanu ...
jewishchronicle.timesofisrael23d
Eliana Light returns to Pittsburgh for a weekend of song and spirituality
Light holds sacred space and song as artist-in-residence at Beth-El Synagogue in Durham and with synagogues ... fellow musician Rabbi Josh Warshawsky of Bexley, Ohio, and Cantor Ellen Dreskin of ...
uDiscover4d
Neil Diamond And ‘The Jazz Singer’: Cinema’s Loss Was Music’s Gain
Neil Diamond’s experience starring in ‘The Jazz Singer’ might have convinced him to follow his music, but it also resulted in a classic hit soundtrack album. It’s no wonder that Diamond ...
CBS News5d
Antisemitic violence after Amsterdam soccer match prompts New York leaders to react
NEW YORK - New York's political leaders are roundly condemning antisemitic violence after a soccer match in Amsterdam ...
5 new arrests made in antisemitic Amsterdam attacks against Israeli soccer fans as criticism mounts over police response
Five people have been arrested on assault charges for their alleged roles in the violent antisemitic attack against Israeli ...
The Times of Israel13d
New York synagogue reveals sexual assault allegation against renowned late rabbi
JTA — A New York City synagogue is removing the name of its former rabbi from a prestigious rabbinic training program after determining that a sexual assault allegation against him was credible.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency3d
A survivor kept the key from a German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht. 86 years later, the relic is returning home.
On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then Marianne Katzenstein, who was 16 at the time, was in her family’s synagogue ...
The New York Times1d
New York
The three big airports that serve New York City have proposed allowing concession prices to rise and adding a surcharge to cover higher wages and improved worker benefits. By Patrick McGeehan ...
The Forward39m
New Los Angeles Yiddish scene continues a long tradition in the city
Many Yiddish writers came to L.A at the turn of the 20th century, believing the climate could cure ailments associated with ...
Opinion
Amsterdam Is About Jew Hatred — and Gaza
When you read the news reports of the appalling violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, there is no doubt that powerful and ugly anti-Jewish hatreds were at work. To deny that is to stick ...