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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Park East Synagogue

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
Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
October 30, 2021, 1:15 am
Fired rabbi defends himself against charges of ‘insurrection’ at NY synagogue
Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt was fired two weeks ago from New York’s Park East Synagogue amid accusations he tried to orchestrate a coup to replace the congregation’s senior rabbi
By Ben Sales
Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
October 21, 2021, 6:29 pm
NYC’s Park East Synagogue fires popular assistant rabbi, sparking protest
Modern Orthodox congregation’s leadership doesn’t say why Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt was axed, but his removal follows push by some members to ‘revitalize the synagogue’
By Ben Sales
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the Security Council during a meeting on the situation in the 'Middle East and Palestine,' January 26, 2016, at the UN in New York. (AFP/United Nations/UN Photo/Loey Felipe)
February 7, 2016, 10:11 pm
UN chief heckled at NY synagogue during Holocaust speech
Congregants at commemoration event said to accuse Ban Ki-moon of justifying terrorism
By ToI Staff
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 20, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 5, 2016, 6:41 am
UN chief to speak at New York synagogue’s Shabbat service
Ban Ki-moon to address congregation of Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By JTA
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses the UN Security Council, October 22, 2015. (Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN)
February 4, 2016, 5:47 pm
Palestinians stepping up statehood bid, Israel’s UN envoy warns
The world was briefly distracted by IS, but Security Council resolution on Palestine not off the table, says Danny Danon
By Raphael Ahren
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)
January 19, 2014, 11:02 pm
UN chief visits NY synagogue for Holocaust memorial
Ban Ki-moon says cruelty of Shoah is ‘still hard to grasp’; tells Channel 2 he hopes Israel will ease restrictions on Gaza
By JTA and ToI Staff
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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