Synagogue

A manicure, a memorial and the music of David - opinion

After two years of yellow hostage ribbons on her nails, the author removes them and finds meaning in orange, memory, and music.

‘David the Servant King’ takes the stage.
Art auction at Kehilat Kol HaNeshama.

Canvas for a cause: Art, music, and tzedakah in Jerusalem

‘WORMS MACHZOR,’ 1280; reconstructed cover, Volume 2.

How a machzor survived over six centuries and Nazi attacks to make it to Israel

Rabbi Hayyim Halpern and Margie Tutnauer

Love at 88, 96: Rosh Hashanah romance that began at shul


Haifa's Conservative Moriah Masorti congregation celebrates 70th birthday

It took more than another two decades after Moriah opened its doors for the national Israeli Masorti movement to be established.

A Hanukkah party at Moriah in Haifa.

The lesson of Yom Kippur: We must fight indifference and marvel at all life's gifts - opinion

It is the day that fights apathy by asking us to recognize the faculty of utter appreciation through its specific prayers.

THERE IS only one remedy: to realize that we are managers of our life, not its owners.

A Torah scroll destined for its kibbutz destination

How a Maine state senator helped bring a Torah scroll from rural Maine to Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu.

HAROLD SILVERMAN with the Calais Torah scroll at the dedication ceremony in Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu, Sept. 1999.

Man who threatened Jewish families sentenced after trying to illegally buy guns for 'God's wrath'

Hassan Chokr had pleaded guilty to illegal possession of multiple firearms on May 28, after originally being charged in 2022 with ethnic intimidation and for lying on federal firearms forms.

Hassan Chokr

Avner Bar Hama: An artist with a soul

Reading some of the comments on his book’s inside cover, I began to realize how singular a man he is.

The writer and Avner Bar Hama in synagogue, where they met.

Rabbi Nitzan Reuven establishes a visionary spiritual center for Jewish unity

‘A place unlike any other in the world’.

AHAVAT SHALOM CENTER, architectural rendering

'Declaring war on antisemitism in Germany': Merz tearful at synagogue reopening ceremony

"We will not tolerate antisemitism even when it is disguised under the pretense of freedom, of art, of culture, or of science," Merz said.

German Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks at the reopening of the Reichenbach Synagogue. September 15, 2025.

Antisemitic attacks in Canada, three synagogues vandalized with 'Jews did 9/11' graffiti

Hebrew school teachers, parents, and students arrived at the Shaar Shalom building on Sunday morning to find a swastika spray-painted over the synagogue's facade signage.

Halifax synagogues were vandalized.

London's Metropolitan Police charge man after smearing feces, urine on synagogues, Jewish sites

The Metropolitan Police charged Ionut-Cristian Bold with 11 offenses related to antisemitic attacks, including smearing feces and urine on synagogues in north-west London.

Feces smeared on the door of a Synagogue and Jewish school in London, September 11, 2025.

Met Police arrest suspected London fecal vandal who targeted Jewish sites

Seven community-linked properties, including synagogues, private homes and nurseries, were smeared with excrement over the past few weeks.

Police officers work as people gather outside the Old Bailey after British police officer Martyn Blake was acquitted of the 2022 murder of Chris Kaba, in London, Britain, October 21, 2024.