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FBI reviews security video after LA shooting

The FBI was reviewing security camera footage Friday with police in the hunt for an unidentified gunman who wounded two men in a synagogue parking garage.

Egypt unveils restoration of famous synagogue

The head of antiquities on Thursday unveiled restoration work under way at one Egypt's most famous synagogues, a project he denied was meant to assuage Jewish anger at the country's culture minister.

Rebuilding of Lebanon's oldest synagogue begins

Laborers have torn down the disintegrating roof, cleared the debris and erected scaffolding, showing Wednesday that the long delayed renovation of Lebanon's oldest and most important synagogue has finally begun.

Oldest active US synagogue opens RI visitor center

The Touro Synagogue was barely 25 years old when George Washington offered a vision of religious tolerance in a letter he sent its congregants.

Merkin quits post at NYC synagogue

J. Ezra Merkin, the financier who invested billions of dollars of his clients' money with Bernard Madoff, has resigned as an officer of a wealthy New York City synagogue.

Belarus destroys synagogue of renowned rabbi

The roof has been removed and the windows stripped of their frames and glass. Piece by piece, workers are tearing down the former synagogue where a renowned rabbi served before fleeing the Soviet Union for New York in 1936.

Chavez condemns attack on synagogue

President Hugo Chavez on Sunday condemned a recent attack on a Venezuela synagogue, suggesting that his political foes were responsible for the incident.

Paris area synagogue hit in firebomb attack

Two Molotov cocktails were hurled at a synagogue north of Paris, the latest attack in what France's interior minister said Monday is a new wave of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attacks over the violence in Gaza. No injuries were reported.

Rabbi in Ukraine says synagogue plans threatened

A Jewish leader in Ukraine accused nationalist activists Tuesday of trying to halt construction of a synagogue by erecting crosses on the land.

Abandoned synagogue gives shelter in Ossetian war

When Georgian rockets began falling on this sleepy capital of the breakaway province of South Ossetia, Zemfira Tibilova and her neighbors ran to a century-old brick synagogue.

Life Term in Fla. Synagogue Shooting

An 81-year-old man who killed his ex-girlfriend's boss in a shooting at a synagogue was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.

Man, 81, Convicted of Murder

A jury convicted an 81-year-old man of murdering his ex-girlfriend's boss in a shooting at a synagogue two years ago after a Rosh Hashanah service.

Small Plane Crashes Into Ga. Synagogue

A small plane crashed into the side of a synagogue Wednesday night, killing the pilot, witnesses said.

Historic NYC Synagogue Is Reborn

A historic synagogue in a neighborhood synonymous with Jewish life a century ago celebrated a rebirth Sunday after a renovation that took more than 20 years and cost $20 million.

Synagogue's Hospitality Rankles Church

The Archdiocese of St. Louis and a Jewish Reform congregation are on the same side when it comes to advocating for immigrants and the poor, often finding common ground in a zeal for social justice. But when the Central Reform Congregation offered its synagogue for Sunday's ordination of two women in a ceremony disavowed by the Roman Catholic church, it drew the ire of church officials and a pledge to never again partner with the congregation.

Poland's Jews Plan to Build Skyscraper

Poland's Jewish leaders have unveiled plans for a glass skyscraper in a neighborhood that was the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

Jewish 'Wall' Raises Environmental Fears

Orthodox Jews who want to use a strand of fishing line several miles long to create a symbolic religious enclosure are getting entangled in a dispute with beachfront residents and California environmentalists, who fear the string will snag birds and spoil the ocean view.

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3 Clergymen of Different Faiths Attempt to Bridge Interfaith Gap
Source: The New York Times

The three say they became close not by avoiding or glossing over their conflicts, but by running straight at them.

Two men shot at Hollywood Synagogue

Two men were shot early today inside a synagogue in north Hollywood, California, Police said.both men were shot in the legs at the synagogue. Both men are hospitalized. Their injuries are not life threatening. They are in stable condition.

The synagogue that doubles as a mosque
Source: New Statesman Contents

On Friday afternoons, the people coming to pray at this building take off their shoes, unfurl rugs to kneel on and pray in Arabic. The ones that come Friday evenings put on yarmulkes, light candles and pray in Hebrew.

Ancient synagogue found in Israel
Source: CNN

In what was slated to be the site of a new 122-room hotel, archaeologists say they have discovered one of the world's oldest synagogues in Northern Israel.

Synagogue From Jesus' Time Discovered
Source: catholic.net

The ruins of a synagogue from Jesus' time were discovered during excavations of a site in Magdala where a pilgrimage center is being built on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

Archaeologists find early menorah depiction - Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday. The menorah was engraved in stone around 2,000 years ago and found in a synagogue re …

Ill-favoured Prodigy

ILL-FAVOURED PRODIGY BRILLIANT OR BEWITCHED? TB JOSHUA TELLS ALL To many, Friday 28th August 2009 was just another day, another event, another occurrence in the cycle of life, quickly to be forgotten.

Cyber Or 26 What's In A Name
Source: israelseen.com

Over the past few years, an important new phenomenon has emerged in Jewish Life in the US and in Israel as well.

Thou Shall Not Steal: Rabbis Masterminded Money Laundering Ring, Say Feds
Source: CBS News

Federal prosecutors say five highly-placed rabbis in New York and New Jersey were also arrested, including Eliahu Ben Haim, of Long Branch, N.J., Saul Kassin and Mordchai Fish of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Edmund Nahum, of Deal, N.J. Fish's brother, also a rabbi, was charged as well.

Kerala to restore 400-year-old Indian synagogue
Source: JPost.com

COCHIN, India - Local authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala have decided to renovate one of the oldest synagogues in the region as part of a larger heritage conservation and tourism development project, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Cyber Or-20 Cyber Kehillah-3 Social networking
Source: israelseen.com

Social networking (Net 2.0) will not supersede what we call "Organized Religion" but it certainly re-organizes it and re-defines it. One of the major societal phenomena that are developing in our world of cyberspace is the creation and development of the VIRTUAL COMMUNITY.

Los Angeles's Imagine LA Program Helps Homeless: A City of Angels for the Homeless
Source: ChristianityToday.com

The Imagine LA program founded by a minister seeks to deal with homelessness in Los Angeles.

Cyber Or-19 Virtual Kehillah - Community
Source: israelseen.com

When we think of the Synagogue, we often think of its Hebrew term- Bet Knesset. The word Synagogue is from the ancient Greek: meaning The House of Assembly, a translation of the Hebrew: Bet- house; Knesset- assembly.

Stop ignoring Islam's antisemitic doctrine: Bronx bomb plot reminds us of a core religious problem
Source: NY Daily News

"These were people who were eager to bring death to the Jews and the Jewish community." Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Snyder provided this apt characterization of the four converts to Islam whose plans to bomb a Bronx synagogue and a Jewish community center were thwarted.

Brazil police disrupt plot to bomb synagogues
Source: JPost.com

"Police disrupted an alleged neo-Nazi plot to bomb at least two synagogues in southern Brazil and are looking into whether the group has international ties, officials said Thursday.

Four arrested in NYC terror plot against synagogue
Source: Newsday.com

"Four men have been arrested and charged in a plot to detonate explosives near at least one synagogue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and to shoot down military aircraft, authorities said Wednesday night."

4 Arrested in Plot to Bomb New York Synagogues - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times

Four men from upstate New York were arrested Wednesday night in what the authorities said was a plot to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military planes at Stewart Air National Guard base in Newburgh, N.Y.

Cyber Or 16 Jewish N-Gen vs Y Gen
Source: israelseen.com

I would like to suggest that the Generation Y and the Net Generation are much the same people. The N-gen is written about by many. The one that I like best are the writings of Don Topscott (Growing Up Digital, Wikinomics, Grown Up Digital).

Robbery, Not Anti-Semitism, Motive for Attack on Venezuelan Synagogue
Source: venezuelanalysis.com

A confession by security guard Víctor Escalona revealed that a personal struggle over money was the motive of the crime.

Venezuela's Chavez Reaffirms his Respect for Judaism
Source: venezuelanalysis.com

Chávez said that the attack had "very strange" elements and reminded him of an attack a few years ago against the consulates of Colombia and Spain in Caracas, in which perpetrators tried to give the appearance of being Chávez supporters by leaving pro-Chávez fliers at the  …

Chicago synagogues hit by hate crime spree
Source: JPost.com

The caretakers at Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation in the normally quiet village of Lincolnwood just outside Chicago woke up to the sound of shattering glass and saw two adults running through the synagogue's parking lot in ski masks.

Paris Synagogue Firebombed
Source: Arutz Sheva News Briefs

Britain, Germany, France..... and people still wonder why it is that Jews feel the need for having their own State?

Arson attack on French synagogue
Source: BBC News

Attackers rammed a burning car into a synagogue in the southern French city of Toulouse, officials have said.

Chicago synagogue firebombed; police probe possible link to Gaza violence
Source: haaretz.com

A bottle of flammable liquid was hurled at one of Chicago's oldest synagogues, catching fire but not causing major damage. No one was injured in the incident early Monday at Temple Sholom of Chicago.

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