The center will include registration offices, facilities for premarital counseling, and a mikveh where brides can immerse in a private, dignified setting. Former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: “So many Jews feel that the religious world is looking down on them. Tzohar says be part of this heritage. It is yours as much as it is ours."
Matthew Amiot enters his guilty pleas on negligent fire charges. Police say they don't believe the fire was a hate crime.
Israel’s national library unearths an 80-year-old Jewish New Year greeting that the father of modern India sent to Bombay Zionist Association head Avraham Shohet on Sept. 1, 1939, at the outbreak of World War II.
Rabbi of the Western Wall Shmuel Rabinovitch oversees process of removing notes and burying them on the Mount of Olives to ensure there is always room between the stones.
The report “notes claims that the objectives, activities and effects of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement are fundamentally anti-Semitic," recommends that all UN member states adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of anti-Semitism. Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon: "Report reflects the organizational change toward Israel."
Marko Feingold fled Vienna in 1938 but was arrested by the Gestapo in Prague in 1939 and sent to Auschwitz, then moved to other concentration camps until he was liberated by US troops in 1945.
Defendant John T. Earnest could face the death penalty if he is convicted of murder as a hate crime, although prosecutors haven't said whether they will pursue capital punishment.
The synagogue will be part of the multifaith “Abrahamic Family House” complex in Abu Dhabi, which will also feature a mosque and a church. Though the synagogue will be the first in the UAE, a small Jewish community of expatriates currently uses a house in Dubai for private worship.
Jewish leaders are preparing to discuss plans to commemorate the deadly shooting that killed 11 worshippers inside the synagogue almost a year ago.
Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle raised the alarm about the dangers of Nazism before Hitler rose to power, served as the financial guarantor for more than 300 Jewish refugees, and corralled numerous friends and colleagues in Hollywood to do the same.
