The Brodsky synagogue is located in the very center of the Ukrainian capital, just a few kilometers from the symbolic Kyiv square of Independence Square. Founded in 1898, “it was closed down by the communists in 1926, returned to the Jewish community in 1997, and in 2000 to us…
On Thursday, July 1, 2021, in Brighton, the largest Jewish community in Boston, Massachusetts, an Arab armed criminal attacked Rabbi Shlomo Noginsky. Father of 12 children, received more than 8 stab wounds. The attacker was identified as Khaled Amad. The attack took place near a Jewish school ...
Respected New York Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom of Portugal died April 1 in a Baltimore hospital surrounded by his loved ones. He was 95 years old. Tens of thousands of people attended the funeral, forming a huge crowd in which two police officers were injured. April 2…
575 rabbis signed a letter to the government of Israel demanding that same-sex couples be allowed to use surrogate mothers. The letter was written by the North American NGO A Wider Bridge, which supports the LGBT community in Israel, RTVI says. The organization calls an open letter a response to another ...
In New Jersey, a rabbi and his wife, as well as three other couples, were tricked into receiving government aid worth more than a million dollars by concealing their income, according to the criminal case, writes Fox News. One of the married couples continued to receive help ...
80-year-old Alvin Cass, who is the Chief Chaplain of the New York City Police Department, was attacked and sustained minor injuries this week. This crime was committed last Sunday on Riverside Boulevard, Upper West Side in Manhattan, where the rabbi was doing his morning run, reports ...
New York rabbi Elliot Cosgrove has threatened to withdraw security support from Israel if the Jewish state "continues to alienate the American Jewish community." Cosgrove leads one of the largest Conservative Jewish communities in Manhattan. The richest Jews in New York come to his synagogue every Saturday.…
Over 150 people gathered in the Brooklyn community of the Odessa rabbi Asher Altshul. The company was very diverse in age, but friendly and cheerful. Joy is no less effective and efficient mechanism in communion with God than groans and prayers, Rabbi Asher Altshul explained, opening the Purim celebration. ...