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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Young Israel

New Rochelle Young Israel Synagogue in Westchester County, New York (Google Maps)
March 6, 2020, 2:50 pm
Rabbi at synagogue at center of NY outbreak diagnosed with coronavirus
Rabbi Reuven Fink, who also teaches at Yeshiva University, has been in quarantine after he was in contact with congregant who tested positive, institution says in tweet
By JTA and ToI Staff
Igor Fruman, left, and Lev Parnas are Ukrainian-American businessmen who have been arrested with campaign finance violations related to the burgeoning Trump-Ukraine scandal. (Getty Images/JTA Montage)
October 11, 2019, 7:13 pm
Orthodox synagogue association honored 2 Giuliani associates before arrests
Young Israel’s Joseph Frager says he met the men at a Trump fundraiser and later gave them the ‘Lovers of Zion’ award in vain hope they would donate to his organization
By Ben Sales
Farley Weiss, president of the National Council of Young Israel, poses next to the text of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995. Weiss says political activism is part of Young Israel’s mission. (Courtesy of Weiss/via JTA)
March 6, 2019, 12:23 pm
How partisan politics are dividing a US Orthodox synagogue movement
107-year-old Young Israel group sees disquiet among rabbis and communities after long defending Trump and now siding with Netanyahu’s political support for racist Otzma Yehudit
By Ben Sales
Otzma Yehudit candidates Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Michael Ben-Ari, right, carry a mock coffin with a man wearing a Benjamin Netanyahu face mask during a protest in Jerusalem on July 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 1, 2019, 10:37 pm
22 Young Israel synagogues oppose national leader’s defense of Netanyahu
US congregations call on their organization ‘to immediately cease making all political pronouncements’ in wake of its endorsement of unity deal between Kahanists and Jewish Home
By Ben Sales
Michael Ben Ari, center, Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Lehava chair Benzi Gopstein, all of the Otzma Yehudit party, at an event in Jerusalem marking the 27th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Meir Kahane, November 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 1, 2019, 4:25 pm
Young Israel head says defense of Netanyahu did not speak for all its synagogues
Following backlash over statement on PM-backed merger involving extremist Otzma Yehudit, US Orthodox group’s leader says he was expressing his personal views
By Ben Sales
Deborah Lipstadt, author of 'Antisemitism: Here and Now' (Osnat Perelshtein via JTA)
February 27, 2019, 4:04 am
Deborah Lipstadt resigns from synagogue over defense of Israeli extreme right
Leading Holocaust scholar cuts ties with Young Israel, saying she can’t associate with organization that condones ‘such racism, celebration of violence, and immoral policies’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Otzma Yehudit candidates Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Michael Ben-Ari, right, carry a mock coffin with a man wearing a Benjamin Netanyahu face mask during a protest in Jerusalem on July 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 26, 2019, 2:46 am
US Orthodox group backs Netanyahu over bid to put Kahanists in Knesset
Young Israel says it understands political calculus behind push for Otzma Yehudit-Jewish Home merger, ZOA also slams criticism of prime minister over maneuver
By JTA
Rachel Levmore
September 7, 2017, 2:40 pm
Rachel Levmore
Happily married couples need a post-nup
Be an example to your children and community, and prevent get-refusal in the Orthodox community
The Kesher Israel Synagogue in Washington, DC (AgnosticPreachersKid/Wikimedia Commons)
October 15, 2015, 5:01 am
US Jewish movements come together in support of Israel
Reform, Orthodox, Conservative and Reconstructionist groups put aside differences for ‘Solidarity Shabbat’
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
Rinel Saif, (C), wife of Israeli Druze police officer Zidan Saif, seen during a ceremony in his honor in the Jewish orthodox neighborhood of Har Nof, Jerusalem, November 27, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 12, 2015, 11:09 am
NY Jews honor Druze cop slain in synagogue attack
Community in Woodmere raises $34,000 for widow of Zidan Saif, who was killed while confronting terrorists in Har Nof
By Stuart Winer
Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped on June 12 and whose bodies were found on June 30. (photo credit: IDF/AP)
July 16, 2014, 1:33 pm
Times Square billboard mourns murdered Israeli teens
Electronic billboard originally purchased to call for teens’ safe return to remain active in their memory for two weeks
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a US prison (CC BY miss_millions/flikr)
June 1, 2014, 7:56 pm
Orthodox groups file briefs in US prison observance cases
One case tackles the issue of kosher meals for Jewish inmates, another moves to allow a Muslim man to grow his beard
By JTA
The Kesher Israel Synagogue in Washington, DC (AgnosticPreachersKid/Wikimedia Commons)
April 19, 2014, 12:48 am
US synagogues urged to adopt new security measures
In wake of KC shootings, letter from Young Israel urges heightened awareness of suspicious individuals, packages
By ToI Staff
Judy Heicklen, Michele Vogel and Doreen Samuels, panelists at the US Women event. photo credit: (courtesy)
April 27, 2013, 9:58 am
Keep calm and vote for women
For the first time, in elections next month, women are seeking leadership roles at London’s Orthodox synagogues. But some positions remain out-of-bounds
By Miriam Shaviv
Rabbi Asher Lopatin, right, the incoming president of the Modern Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, confers with Rabbi Yehoshua Eichenstein, the Zidichiver rebbe, at Chicago's Siyum HaShas celebration. (photo credit: Fred Eckhouse Photography/JTA)
September 9, 2012, 8:11 pm
How much will new rabbinical school leader shake up the Orthodox world?
With an emphasis on ‘open Orthodoxy,’ Rabbi Asher Lopatin — soon to take over the liberal-leaning Yeshivat Chovevei Torah — is stirring up both interest and opposition
By Uriel Heilman
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