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The Golden Rose Synagogue in Dnipro, Ukraine. (CC BY-SA4.0 Skoropadsky/Wikipedia)
September 15, 2017, 8:30 pm
Four synagogues open in former Soviet Union ahead of Rosh Hashanah
Reopened prayer houses range from wooden structure in Birobidzhan to posh synagogue built by Lev Leviev in Moscow
By JTA
Steven H Brooks. (Miami-Dade Police)
August 30, 2017, 11:54 pm
Miami police searching for man who threatened to shoot up synagogue
Authorities ask public's help in locating Steven H. Brooks, who has trespassed twice at Beit David Highland Lakes Shul
By JTA
Chevra Anshei Lubavitch synagogue (Screenshot from CBS New York via JTA)
August 30, 2017, 9:14 am
NY judge blocks demolition of historic synagogue
Members claim they were unaware Brooklyn site was sold to developers planning apartment block
By JTA
Rabbi Mychal Copeland took over as spiritual leader of Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in July. (Norm Levin/J. The Jewish News of Northern California/via JTA)
August 26, 2017, 5:26 am
Iconic San Francisco synagogue is no longer ‘just’ for LGBT Jews
With increased gay rights in the US, the new challenge for 'queer havens' is getting members of all stripes into the pews
By Rob Gloster
Rabbi Steven Kane of Congregation Sons of Israel, or CSI, and its Community Organic Farm in Briarcliff Manor, New York. (Courtesy)
August 23, 2017, 11:00 pm
Synagogues bet the farm on community-grown organic gardens
Access to spare land and urban farming awareness has congregants pitching in to feed local needy
By Cathryn J. Prince
A smashed window at Temple Israel clearly shows children’s drawings of Stars of David, Aug. 17, 2017 (Mel Waldorf/J. The Jewish News of Northern California)
August 18, 2017, 7:40 pm
Windows smashed at Northern California synagogue
Two smashed glass panes had text identifying the building as Jewish, and Stars of David drawn by congregation children
By The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA
Security footage of a man in Philadelphia urinating on a wall next to the entrance of Congregation Beth Solomon on August 13, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 17, 2017, 1:02 pm
Philadelphia man arrested for urinating on synagogue
Suspect turns himself in to police after footage shows him flipping off camera, relieving himself on Jewish house of prayer
By TOI staff
An architect’s rendering shows the synagogue building that a Chabad affiliate, Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe, hoped to build near a popular beach in Sydney, Australia. (Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe)
August 10, 2017, 6:59 pm
Australian group to resubmit plans for Sydney synagogue
Waverley council affirms security arrangements can be found for house of worship to be built near Bondi Beach
By henry Benjamin
An architect’s rendering shows the synagogue building that a Chabad affiliate, Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe, hoped to build near a popular beach in Sydney, Australia. (Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe)
August 4, 2017, 10:50 pm
Australian city: Don’t blame us for banning synagogue on terror grounds
Jewish leaders decry disturbing decision in Sydney suburb, predict legal means will be taken to pursue project
By JTA and TOI staff
Pedestrians walk past newly-installed concrete security bollards near the Lindt Cafe on July 17, 2017, scene of the 2014 Sydney cafe seige, in which two hostages and the gunman were killed. (AFP/WILLIAM WEST)
August 3, 2017, 6:40 pm
Plan for new synagogue in Australia blocked over terror fears
In move that Jewish community says rewards terror, court upholds Sydney council decision that house of prayer poses unacceptable security risk
By TOI staff
August 1, 2017, 4:01 pm
Hungary for more
Glorious synagogue architecture attests to the valiant Hungarian Jewry that once was
By Rayna Rose Exelbierd
Congregation Hope of Israel in the lower Grand Concourse neighborhood of the Bronx, New York, closed in 2006. (Flickr via JTA)
July 22, 2017, 6:03 am
Shuttered Bronx synagogue becomes a dumping ground
City's sanitation department says it can't collect accumulating garbage on privately owned property
By JTA
Meyer Benzecrit, the president of the Jewish community of Carpentras, delivering a speech at the town’s synagogue, May 28, 2017. (Courtesy of the municipality of Carpentras/via JTA)
July 17, 2017, 12:25 pm
How this 650-year-old French synagogue withstood centuries of anti-Semitism
The shul in Carpentras offers a glimpse into ancient Jewish life, but still serves as a functioning house of worship
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Congregation Shaare Zedek in New York City (Jim Henderson/Wikimedia Commons)
July 11, 2017, 1:12 am
Historic 179-year-old New York City synagogue to go condo
Head of city's third oldest Jewish house of worship says construction of apartments needed for community to remain solvent
By JTA
Garnethill Synagogue in Glasgow, Scotland. (GLAMJ CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)
July 6, 2017, 6:09 am
UK synagogue membership at lowest since 1990
Despite a record number of synagogues, new report finds 20 percent decline in Jews who want to join them
By JTA
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