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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 467

South Dakota

Rabbi Mendel Alperowitz and wife Mussie strolling with their two daughters in Brooklyn, Nov. 25, 2016. (Chabad.org/JTA)
December 28, 2016, 8:31 am
South Dakota finally gets a full-time rabbi
Chabad rabbi and family move to Sioux Falls to serve state’s few hundred Jews; first event is a menorah lighting
By JTA
Rabbi Mendel Alperowitz delivers a speech at the 2016 International Conference of Chabad Emissaries Screen Capture: chabad.org)
November 29, 2016, 9:07 am
After years without rabbi, South Dakota is about to get one
Sioux Falls Chabad House to provide religious services to a 150-year-old Jewish community that came with the gold rush
By regina garcia cano
Solidarity protest against the Dakota Access Pipleline near Standing Rock Indian Reservation in San Francisco, California, on November 15, 2016. (CC-BY-SA/Pax Ahimsa Gethen/Wikimedia Commons)
November 24, 2016, 5:28 pm
Jewish woman injured at Standing Rock protests, could lose her arm
Protesters say New York native, 21, was hit by police percussion grenade, but police say activists were making bombs
By JTA and ToI Staff
Dakota Access Pipeline protesters stand in the foreground and in the waist-deep water of the Cantapeta Creek, northeast of the Oceti Sakowin Camp, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, Wednesday, November 2, 2016. (Mike Mccleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
November 5, 2016, 8:38 am
US Jewish groups declare support for Standing Rock protest
American rabbis take part in Native American-led demonstrations against establishment of major oil pipeline
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a prisoner (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
September 21, 2016, 10:13 am
South Dakota Jewish inmate sues over kosher violations
Prisoner claims he was served pork products over period of 2 years, demands $301 per non-kosher meal
By JTA
South Dakota State Senator Dan Lederman with his family. (Courtesy)
April 2, 2015, 1:50 am
South Dakota Jewish legislator resigns mid-term
Republican Dan Lederman quits because of ‘the many nights and months’ he was forced to be away from family
By JTA
Student rabbi Sara Eiser, visiting from rabbinical school in Cincinnati, Ohio, goes over her notes before a Shabbat service at the Synagogue of the Black Hills in Rapid City, S.D. South Dakota’s first Jewish congregation was established in Deadwood more than 150 years ago during the Gold Rush. Today, fewer than 400 people make up the Jewish community in this sparsely populated state of about 845,000 residents. (photo credit: AP Photo/Kristina Barker)
December 29, 2014, 2:07 am
In South Dakota, Jews have to wait all year to ask a rabbi a question
Community has dwindled to 390 in US state with fewest Jews, but ‘nobody wants to turn the lights out’
By regina garcia cano
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