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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 435

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Ladislav Trajer, left, and Mirko Štark, the top two leaders of the Jewish community in Novi Sad, Serbia, chat just outside the entrance to their synagogue. (Larry Luxner/JTA)
September 18, 2023, 1:57 am
After barely surviving the Holocaust, one Serbian Jewish community faces extinction
Though their city has grown significantly since WWII, Novi Sad’s Jews still haven’t recovered from their near decimation. But what they lack in numbers they make up for in tenacity
By Larry Luxner
Israel's former chief Ashkenazi rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau shakes hands with Holocaust survivor Felix Goldschmied at the Launceston Synagogue in Launceston, Australia, July 12, 2023. (Mishka Gora via JTA)
July 23, 2023, 4:34 pm
In remote Tasmania, Jews welcome a rare visit from a former Israeli chief rabbi
The first such visit in 72 years is a boost for the small but growing community established by Jewish convicts in 1804 and considered far-flung even by Australian standards
By Nomi Kaltmann
The Pears Jewish Campus in Berlin is seen at its inauguration ceremony, June 25, 2023. (Toby Axelrod/ JTA)
June 30, 2023, 10:31 am
Chabad opens Germany’s largest Jewish center since before WWII
Berlin’s Pears Jewish Campus, which covers over 80,000 square feet and cost $43.7 million to build, will house a school, gym, movie theater, music studio and kosher deli
By Toby Axelrod
Rabbi Alberto (Baruch) Zeilicovich, seen at Eagle Beach in Aruba, recently came out of retirement to become the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Israel on the southern Caribbean island. (Dan Fellner/ JTA)
March 19, 2023, 5:44 am
Aruba’s new rabbi comes out of retirement to lead a congregation in ‘paradise’
After manning the pulpit in Medellin, Colombia, at the height of Pablo Escobar’s notorious reign, Baruch Zeilicovich feels ready for anything on the beautiful and serene island
By dan fellner
Illustrative: A Haredi man looks at his mobile phone in Jerusalem, Israel (svarshik/iStock by Getty Images)
March 6, 2023, 6:11 pm
Tradition meets technology with UK app for halachic questions
Those in need of advice on Jewish law can anonymously text a panel of rabbinic experts and receive an answer in hours with ShailaText, which just hit 10,000 users
By Yaakov Schwartz
Pavlina Sulcova holds a copy of 'Are We There Yet Moses' outside her office at the Prague Creative Center, October 2022. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
January 21, 2023, 3:27 am
Directing a virtual JCC, one woman is making Jewish Prague the envy of its neighbors
When COVID scuttled director Pavlina Sulcova’s plans to open a new community space, a pivot to fun educational content paid off big time. She just released her 2nd children’s book
By Yaakov Schwartz
Jews living in San Martin de los Andes have inaugurated the first-ever synagogue in their city. (Gustavo Castaign/ Courtesy Comunidad Hebrea San Martin de los Andes via JTA)
December 1, 2022, 3:38 am
Patagonia’s 1st new synagogue in decades reveals growing Argentine-Jewish community
Conservative Jews in San Martín de los Andes inaugurated their city’s first-ever synagogue, and have already doubled the number of locals and tourists coming for holiday events
By Juan Melamed
Olga stands with her husband Daoud Cemel's 90-year-old mom, Adile, in Antakya, Turkey. (David I. Klein/ JTA)
October 21, 2022, 9:04 pm
On the Turkish-Syrian border, a city’s last Jews watch the ending of an epoch
Antakya, known in antiquity as Antioch, has a Jewish community 2,300 years old and is mentioned in the Talmud, but a flight to urban areas has left just a dozen Jewish residents
By David I. Klein
Samantha Woll, president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit, welcomes attendees to the congregation's centennial celebration and groundbreaking on a major renovation project, August 14, 2022. (Andrew Lapin/Jewish Telegraphic Agency/ via JTA)
August 28, 2022, 2:59 am
Detroit’s last inner-city synagogue hopes to lead its Jewish communal future
With a planned $5 million renovation set to be complete in 2024, a young contingent is revitalizing the century-old congregation and renewing Jewish life in the urban center
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Jews pray during Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, at the Magen Abraham Synagogue in Ahmedabad, India on September 28, 2020. (Sam Panthaky/AFP)
July 26, 2022, 10:58 am
Stone pillar in southern India may shed new light on region’s oldest synagogue
Jewish groups have history in India dating back to antiquity; pillar found not far from Chennai, where Sephardic Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition formed a community
By Jordyn Haime
Illustrative: Ken Schneider, left, of East Providence, Rhode Island, and Allen Talewsky of Danvers, watch as people wait to attend a panel on free speech and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst, Massachusetts on May 4, 2019. (Christopher Evans/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
June 29, 2022, 7:41 pm
ADL organizing forum to address ‘danger’ of pro-Palestine ‘mapping’ project
In a letter sent last week to several US government agencies, 37 lawmakers from both parties urge an investigation of the website’s alleged attempt to target Jewish groups in Mass.
By Philip Marcelo
Rabbi Yosef and Chana Lipsker, fourth an fifth from left, cut the ribbon in front of the new Chabad hospitality center. (Courtesy)
June 17, 2022, 4:52 pm
In the US, some fading Reform and Conservative synagogues go Orthodox to stay afloat
Chabad Hasidic outreach programs reverse decline and bring growth to congregations through a host of programming designed to foster a more traditional community
By Cathryn J. Prince
Rendering of the new Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity in downtown Orlando. (Courtesy of Beyer Blinder Belle and The Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity/via JTA)
April 20, 2022, 3:39 am
Orlando’s Holocaust museum is getting a huge expansion
Since the 1980s, the center has been a local fixture despite its small size; it will now relocate to a new 43,000-square-foot facility in the city’s cultural corridor
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rabbi Motl Gordon in Jerusalem. (Nathan Lazovnikov)
April 11, 2022, 4:00 am
Rabbi who fled Moscow: ‘Jewish life in Russia as I knew it was coming to an end’
When war in Ukraine broke out, Motl Gordon moved to Israel, where he’s working with Russian-speaking Jews ‘as they are’ to nurture a vision of an audaciously welcoming new diaspora
By David Stromberg
Florence Wangiju poses for a photo on the street on a trip to Israel. (Courtesy of Winnie Wangu/ via JTA)
April 9, 2022, 6:57 am
How a conversion split — and then strengthened — Kenya’s Jewish community
After Florence Wangiju and her family struggled through a labyrinthine conversion process, Nairobi’s tiny congregation took years to fully accept them, then grew closer than ever
By Cara Tabachnick
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