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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

Arthur Schneier

Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt and his wife, journalist Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, announced the name of their new congregation via social media on Feb. 16. (Screenshot from Instagram via JTA)
February 17, 2022, 6:16 am
Rabbi ousted from Park East Synagogue announces new Manhattan congregation
Benjamin Goldschmidt says name of new community he’s starting with his wife will be ‘Altneu,’ a portmanteau of the Yiddish words for ‘old’ and ‘new’
By julia GERGELY
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an interview at the UN Headquarters, on January 20, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)
January 26, 2022, 9:06 am
UN chief decries antisemitism, urges world to ‘stand firm’ against hatred, bigotry
Guterres, at NY synagogue service, decries rise of ‘oldest form of hate and prejudice’; Rabbi Schneier on anti-vaxxers: Wearing yellow star after 1945 ‘is sign of vicious hatred’
By Edith M. Lederer
Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt (center) teaches a class earlier this year leading up to the High Holidays. (Screenshot from LinkedIn via JTA)
November 3, 2021, 8:11 am
Fired Park East rabbi holding rival services blocks from his old synagogue
Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt starts new Shabbat service as he and Rabbi Arthur Schneier, who fired him, seek to tell congregation their side of story through membership list emails
By Ben Sales
Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour, left, speaks to reporters while Palestinian minister of foreign affairs Riyad al-Maliki looks on following a meeting in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
September 27, 2018, 7:52 am
As Trump readies peace plan, Palestinians hold NY meet to push an alternative
Ramallah unimpressed with Trump’s support for two-state solution, says ‘there is nothing new about it’; foreign dignitaries from 40 countries attend PA confab
By Raphael Ahren
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, left, and Israeli envoy Ron Prosor casting their sins into Turtle Bay on September 21, 2015. (Gemma Manalese)
September 22, 2015, 12:57 pm
UN tosses sins into river in first-ever Tashlich ceremony
WATCH: At Jewish pre-Yom Kippur service, Israeli envoy calls on world body to ‘reestablish role as temple of peace’
By Joshua Davidovich
Rabbi Arthur Shneier. (Photo credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 appealofconscience.org/Wikimedia)
April 23, 2015, 6:36 am
Pope Francis to bestow knighthood on New York rabbi
Founder of Appeal of Conscience Foundation and Holocaust survivor to be honored for promoting peace, mutual understanding
By JTA
Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, May 25, 2014. (screen capture: GPO)
May 25, 2014, 3:54 pm
Pope’s East-West church summit sends message to Mideast, NY rabbi says
Arthur Schneier: Francis’ landmark meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I signals that all conflicts can be ended
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
May 30, 2013, 10:38 am
Indonesia religious award angers rights groups
Rabbi Arthur Schneier’s foundation set to honor the Indonesian president despite his country’s marked religious intolerance
By Peter James Spielmann
New York Police Department officers secure the Loews Regency hotel, where PM Netanyahu's delegation was headquartered (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
September 30, 2012, 6:12 pm
Covering Netanyahu in New York on Shabbat? That’s no job for a Jewish boy
When the prime minister squeezes in a trip to the UN on a weekend between Yom Kippur and Sukkot, religious observance can be a real challenge. But not impossible. And I certainly didn’t go hungry
By Raphael Ahren
USAID worker Alan Gross arriving at a Havana courthouse for his trial in March 2011. (photo credit: AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)
March 7, 2012, 1:04 pm
Rabbi pays visit to Alan Gross in Cuban jail
Ahead of Purim, NY spiritual leader comforts US citizen facing 15 years behind bars
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