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...What was the congregation after? Perhaps the same thing that humans have sought for centuries: ritual, music, a feeling of community and a sense of something bigger than ourselves....
...Steve Leder, senior rabbi at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles’ oldest synagogue, said he had been hearing more “expressions of concern” from his congregation in recent weeks....
...At Friday prayers at Glasgow’s Central Mosque, the imam implored the congregation to help “our brothers being butchered in Gaza”, chastising the UN — the “Useless Nations”, as he put it — for its inaction...
...The majority of Americans are Christian, 1 per cent identify as Jewish and 25 per cent are religiously unaffiliated....
...Leonard Cohen’s last album You Want It Darker comes to mind, with its synagogue choir and reckoning with Jewish faith....
...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...
...“Though the hostages have been rescued, we urge continued vigilance in securing synagogues and all Jewish institutions . . . to ensure the safety and security of the Jewish community.”...
...I always treasure the Christmas cards I receive from Jewish friends and Muslim neighbours, even though they are not marking the event themselves....
...Last week was the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah, when Jewish people attend synagogue, say prayers of remembrance and repentance and eat apple and honey to represent the promise of a sweet and fruitful 12...
...“We will resist,” he told his congregation, “whenever our adversaries try to force us to act against the Gospel’s commands.”...
...The case before the Supreme Court was brought by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and two Orthodox Jewish congregations....
...City Insider has learnt that its chief executive, Yoav Keren, is the grandson of Arie Ben Yaacov, head of intelligence for the Haganah, the Jewish underground in Palestine, and leader of the “Ha-Shomer”...
...An Eastman Kodak board member donated $116m in company shares to an Orthodox Jewish congregation just before their price collapsed, raising further questions about how company insiders benefited from a controversial...
...congregation he had founded....
...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....
...Democrat Joe Biden has named Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate, an Eastman Kodak board member donated $116m in company shares to an Orthodox Jewish congregation just before the stock price...
...The report also found that a gift of 3m shares by George Karfunkel to a Jewish congregation he had founded raised “significant concerns from a corporate governance perspective” but did not violate federal...
...But a lot of the Christian faith, like the Jewish faith, is built on questioning God....
...(FT) Kodak board member donated $116m in shares to charity George Karfunkel, a Kodak director, and his wife, Renee, donated 3m shares to an Orthodox Jewish congregation....
...Waugh Thistleton’s Jewish Cemetery in Bushey, Hertfordshire, and Marks Barfield’s elaborate Central Mosque in Cambridge have been deservedly much commented on....
...“It resonates through Jewish history and it resonates with me personally. The ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus, who wasn’t Jewish, of course, is good on this....
...In the US anti-Semitism seemed confined to a lunatic fringe, even when in 1958 the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple in Atlanta was bombed by white supremacists accusing the Jews not just of aiding and...
...Steve Vaus, the mayor of Poway, outside of San Diego, told MSNBC that members of the congregation had engaged the shooter and prevented further loss of life....
...The museum’s building is ready, but “it’s not open because there is no content”, says Slomo Koves, leader of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregations, who appointed a new board of directors for the museum...
...The shootings took place at the Tree of Life Congregation in the Squirrel Hill area of the city during morning prayers....
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