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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

mezuzahs

The mezuzah contains a passage from the Torah commanding Jews to inscribe the words on the doorposts of their homes. (Marta Iwanek/Toronto Star via Getty Images via JTA)
November 4, 2023, 6:29 am
As some US Jews take down mezuzahs due to antisemitism, some non-Jews put them up
‘This is the most beautiful thing anybody has ever said to me,’ California rabbi says of offer by neighbors to affix mezuzahs, calls the one at his home ‘the security system’
By Andrew Lapin
Marja Goldstoff holds the Camozuzah at the entrance to her home in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on October 31, 2023. (Courtesy)
October 31, 2023, 3:34 pm
In Europe, soaring antisemitism popularizes a new invention: The camouflaged mezuzah
Disguised to resemble an alarm sensor, Camozuzah is brainchild of Ireland-based Chabad rabbi; it’s increased adoption underlines surge in hostility to Jews amid Israel-Hamas war
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man kisses the mezuzah as he exits a synagogue in Jerusalem, August 5 2008. (Olivier Fitoussi /FLASH90)
March 4, 2020, 5:15 pm
Coronavirus takes toll on religious life as rabbis advise against ritual kissing
Chief rabbi urges keeping lips off hands touching mezuzahs; European rabbinical group bans those feeling unwell from synagogue, even to recite the Kaddish prayer for the dead
By Stuart Winer
California State Senatpr Ben Allen, chair of the Jewish Caucus, puts a mezuzah on his office door with Rabbi Mendy Cohen. (Courtesy of the Jewish Caucus via JTA)
August 14, 2019, 10:35 pm
California Jewish legislators hang mezuzahs in symbolic move
Action follows recent law barring landlords and homeowners from prohibiting tenants from affixing Jewish symbol to their door frames
By JTA
Chava Gal-Or has been distributing mezuzahs for free to Jewish hurricane victims. (Courtesy of Gal-Or/via JTA)
November 23, 2017, 1:06 am
After Hurricane Harvey, woman distributes mezuzahs to make rebuilt houses homes
Having survived the storm, Houston’s Chava Gal-Or set up Door L’Door to help Jews reconstruct their Jewish lives
By Ben Sales
Center: Master mezuzah maker Ric von Neumann in his rural Ontario workshop where he makes his custom cases. Sides: A custom dancer mezuzah case, and a Gibson Les Paul replica mezuzah case. (Courtesy/Libby von Neumann)
August 25, 2017, 3:04 am
The non-Jewish mezuzah master whose custom cases are affixed to door posts around the globe
Far removed from any Jewish community, Ric von Neumann makes some of the world’s most creative scroll holders — in the middle of a remote Canadian wilderness
By Robert Sarner
February 6, 2017, 12:12 pm
Mezuzah features in Google Super Bowl ad
Commercial touts diversity of Google Home users, also features a house with an LGBT pride flag
By ToI Staff
A wooden mezuzah, or ritual Jewish doorpost parchment holder, with a metal menorah design produced by the Mi Polin Judaica studio in Warsaw. (Courtesy)
December 7, 2015, 5:06 am
SF Bay Area foundation to send mezuzahs to IDF bases
500 Warsaw-made doorpost parchment-holders a sign of gratitude, Poland’s ‘vibrant’ Jewish culture
By JTA
Mi Polin founders Helena Czernek, 29, a designer, and Alexander Prugar, 30, a photojournalist. (courtesy)
April 16, 2015, 2:45 am
Mezuzahs from Holocaust victims’ homes reforged by artist couple
To celebrate Polish Jewry past and present, the Mi Polin duo creates art based on imprints from the past
By Rossella Tercatin
Joshua Sobol in a photo from 2009 (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
March 9, 2015, 7:00 pm
Playwright derides ‘mezuzah-kissers’ as ‘fools’
Joshua Sobol says superstition a universal ‘disease’ and criticizing it isn’t racist, likens Bennett campaign to Nazism
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative photo of a broken mezuza (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
July 17, 2013, 9:45 pm
New Yorker sues landlord over no-mezuzah rule
Arye Sachs of North Babylon comes home from a trip to find his ‘priceless, irreplaceable’ heirloom missing, and an eviction notice
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Rabbi Chaim Bruk, left, and Jake Matilsky affix a mezuzah to Matilsky's doorway in Helena, Montana, on June 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Matt Volz)
July 4, 2013, 11:36 pm
Big Sky rabbi seeking state’s few Jews door by door
Chabad rabbi on quest to find the thousand or so Jews in massive Montana and make sure they have proper mezuzahs
By Matt Volz
The Aartselaar windmill. (photo credit: CC BY Johan Bakker, Wikimedia commons)
June 24, 2013, 11:35 pm
Belgian Jew attacked after putting up mezuzah
Cindy Meul assaulted, hospitalized for 15 days by neighbors who wanted to ‘finish what the Nazis started’
A burnt mezuzah in a building in the Brooklyn, NY neighborhood of Williamsburg on Monday April 9, 2013 (screen capture: WNBC - Channel 4, New York).
April 9, 2013, 8:48 am
Vandals burn mezuzahs in Brooklyn building
Police investigating whether act was fueled by anti-Semitism
By Asher Zeiger
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