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...Starmer’s initial support for Israel’s siege on Gaza and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s strong backing for Israel and refusal to accept statehood for Palestine had left the Muslim community “traumatised...
...Rev Isaac has been supporting members of his congregation who have lost relatives in the shelling, visiting their homes and talking about their grief during mass....
...In Israel, while under a third of Jews attend synagogue weekly, according to one reputable survey more than 60 per cent observe the Yom Kippur fast....
...Police on Saturday shot and killed Akram, a 44-year-old British national from Blackburn, after an 11-hour siege at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Coleyville, near Dallas....
...FBI crisis negotiators and local law enforcement had been locked for hours in what governor Greg Abbot had described as a “tense hostage situation” at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, a city about...
...The revelations come a day after what Texas governor Greg Abbott had described as a “tense hostage situation” at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, a city about 25 miles west of Dallas....
...Their political clout stems from powerful rabbis, who direct congregations to vote for Haredi politicians, who have formed the backbone of Mr Netanyahu’s coalitions for over a decade....
...“We will resist,” he told his congregation, “whenever our adversaries try to force us to act against the Gospel’s commands.”...
...“Church leaders who attended the meeting, put their congregation in contact with the virus,” Mr Mkhize said....
...There was no need for the Labour Friends of Israel to feel defensive....
...“This is the moment of all moments for faith communities,” the former chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth tells me over the telephone two weeks after my trip to his...
...Both profess to be pro-Israel for example. Each enthusiastically backed the decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem last year....
...Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said he was “heartbroken and appalled” by the “horrendous anti-Semitic brutality” of the attack....
...Most religiously observant Jews in the US, which is home to the world’s largest Jewish diaspora community, belong to Reform or Conservative congregations where men and women pray together....
...As congregations shrink, thousands of temples are having to do without a resident priest....
...Silicon Fen is another example, inspired by the congregation of high-tech businesses that converged on the city after the British technology company Acorn Computers was founded here in 1978....
...“They say there are ‘around 5,000’ of us in the country now, but it is almost certainly far less,” says Sifra Lentin, a historian and member of the tiny Bene Israel – or “Sons of Israel” – community, whose...
...Governments which have been stung by his rhetoric — from Israel to China, the US and UK — argue that he is too ready to declaim....
...“I am a Holocaust survivor,” Gusztav Zoltai, executive director of the Hungarian Jewish Congregations’ Association, told Reuters....
...In Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories the pressure to emigrate is intense, if equal for Muslims and Christians....
...possibility of bridging the gap between the east and the west but recently I have changed my mind on this issue, especially since the west wants to impose its values and traditions on us,” Mr Qaradawi told his congregation...
...The congregation applauded. Riccardo di Segni, Rome’s chief rabbi, warned of the “silence of man” in the face of great evil....
...His mother, a painter, was a member of 10+, a group of avant-garde artists in Israel during the 1960s....
...He is betraying Israel; warring against free speech; refusing to take real steps to stop Iran’s nuclear program.”...
...In 2005, Amina Wadud, a Muslim convert in New York, broke a 14-century taboo and became the first woman to lead a mixed congregation of men and women in Friday prayers....
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