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Kars4Kids accused of using synagogue for shady deals

Edit New York Post 16 Oct 2016
A group associated with Kars4Kids is trying to take over a Staten Island synagogue to hide some of the charity’s cash, court papers say. Congregation Oorah told the IRS that it was operating a synagogue in a building where the Young ......

Experiences make best gifts this holiday season

Edit Albuquerque Journal 16 Oct 2016
The experiences do not need to occur around the holidays. Sometimes, the anticipation of an experience that may be scheduled several months away is a big part of the fun. Consider these ideas. Give the entire family a trip to the zoo, the botanical gardens, a museum or the mountains. Take some friends or family members to a concert at a local musical venue, a university, a casino, or a church or synagogue ... Bake holiday cookies together ... ....

In good faith: What's it like to have a priest for a parent

Edit DNA India 16 Oct 2016
--> Avril-Ann Braganza . Sun, 16 Oct 2016-08.00am , dna. What's it like to have a priest for a parent, Avril-Ann Braganza speaks to a few people to find out. Zoroastrianism ... Now a tour guide, 28-year-old Daniel David may not always be seen at the synagogue, where his father leads the shabbat prayers on Saturday, but Daniel remembers bunking (with special permission letter) his college lectures in order to keep the Shabbat day holy ... ....

Jewish brothers assaulted following Yom Kippur services in Brooklyn

Edit Indonesia News 15 Oct 2016
A police vehicle is seen outside a Brooklyn synagogue at the world headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in New York City [File]. (photo credit.REUTERS). ... ....

Get inside NYC’s most exclusive buildings

Edit New York Post 15 Oct 2016
Many of New York’s finest historic buildings and houses of worship will open to the public this weekend during Open House New York. “We get 80,000 visitors over the course of two days,” says OHNY executive director Gregory Wessner. With approximately 275 participating sites, this is one of the city’s most popular annual events ... Tours ... Tours ... Eldridge Street Synagogue ... Photo ... A $20 million restoration of the synagogue was completed in 2007 ... ....

A beautiful mosque and the dark period of the Armenian genocide

Edit The Independent 15 Oct 2016
Its stone carvings and mock Grecian columns beside the window frames are a credit to another, gentler age ... But of course, there were ... the Armenian genocide ... The murderers were both Turks and Kurds ... Indeed, the church, ‘Surp Asdvazdadzin Kilisesi’ in Armenian, was turned into a warehouse – as were many Jewish synagogues in Nazi Germany and in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe during the Second World War – and then into a prison. Read more....

Birmingham's locked up and abandoned Jewish cemetery

Edit BBC News 15 Oct 2016
A Jewish cemetery lies abandoned and overgrown in a city centre where it goes unnoticed, hidden between three lanes of traffic, a canal and railway line. Those who know it is there cannot get in as high fences have been put up and the gateway welded shut ... Sue Heath discovered the cemetery while working at Selly Oak Trust School in 1994 ... "It dates back to the 1700s and predates the Singers Hill synagogue which was built in 1856 ... ....

Sunday Sitdown: Ben Zlotnick’s app lets you order mowing, plowing

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 15 Oct 2016
Ben Zlotnick wants Chicagoans to order lawn care and snow-removal the same way they can order from a ride-sharing service like Uber. His company, Eden, already is operating in Toronto and launches in Chicago and the suburbs in November ... An edited transcript follows ... I’m also heavily involved in synagogue and not-for-profits, including delivering food to a food bank and working with day schools and high schools and underprivileged kids ... ....

Venice: Visit the Venetian ghetto

Edit Scotsman 15 Oct 2016
The Campo del Ghetto is now an obligatory stop on the tourist trail in Venice, and is still, to some extent, a centre of Jewish life and culture, and certainly of Jewish history ... The essential structures of life are still there ... Inside, they were no better than the rest of humanity at establishing friendly relations, and there are three wells for the main national components of the community who refused to share, and five synagogues ... ....

Torah reading marks Jewish new year

Edit The Times of India 14 Oct 2016
AHMEDABAD ... The small Bene Israeli Jewish community of 140 members have been gathering at the Magen Abraham synagogue in the Walled City these days to read the five Torahs-holy books of the Jewish community ... The blowing of a ram's horn, a shofar, proclaims the new year, calling Jewish people to the religious services offered at the synagogue ... RELATED....

Giants CEO Larry Baer missed elimination for Yom Kippur

Edit Atlantic City 14 Oct 2016
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Larry Baer left the ballpark in the sixth inning, and he remembers the exact moment because of the Kiss Cam on the scoreboard. The Giants CEO needed to get to Yom Kippur services at his synagogue ... ....

Faith Communities Emergency Preparedness (City of Palo Alto, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Oct 2016
(Source. City of Palo Alto, CA) Faith communities play an important role in the Palo Alto community. They serve as cultural, educational, emotional, social, religious, and political centers. 'When a disaster strikes, the initial services provided may not come from government, but rather from churches, synagogues, mosques and other faith-based and community organizations.' W. Craig Fugate, FEMA Administrator ... Step 1. Get Informed. Step 2....

Objects Tell Stories: Sukkot in the Jewish Museum Collection (Jewish Museum)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Oct 2016
(Source. Jewish Museum). Allan Wexler, Study Model for Sukkah, 1998-85. Photographer. Richard Goodbody, Photo © The Jewish Museum, New York. Sukkot is one of three Jewish holidays known as the pilgrimage festivals ... K B, Etrog Container, Augsburg (Germany), 1674-80 ... Gift of Dr. Harry G ... In the synagogue, these four species, as they are known, are waved in six directions (front, back, right, left, up, and down) to symbolize God's omnipresence....
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