The synagogue is a hazard, charge officials in a Cleveland suburb — with live wires hanging from the ceiling and no fire exits. Earlier this year, the city tried to shut it down. But the Aleksander ...

HAVERSTRAW - As members of the public spoke out at a recent Planning Board meeting about a controversial proposal to convert a house in a residential neighborhood into a synagogue, two speakers ...

An Ohio congregation has become what is perhaps the first Orthodox synagogue to elect an all-female slate of officers. At their annual meeting on June 26, the Oheb Zedek-Cedar Sinai Synagogue in ...

(JTA) — A woman will be the spiritual leader of an Israeli Orthodox synagogue for the first time. Shirat Hatamar, a congregation in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, elected Rabbanit Shira Marili ...

A girl clutches a photo of the late Rabbi Menachem Schneerson during a holiday celebration of Lag BaOmer in front of the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York on April 30, 2021 in New York.

At the South Philadelphia Shtiebel, a 5-foot-tall partition, called a “mechitza,” separates the men from the women in accordance with ancient tradition. But when it comes time for the sermon, Rabbanit ...

Congregation B’nai Israel Ohev Zedek in Philadelphia turned 100 on May 22. Yet the Orthodox synagogue is “a very young shul now,” said Michael Bohm, a member since 1976. What Bohm means is that, among ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GARNERVILLE − First the Haverstraw Town Planning Board and then the Town Board voted 5-0 Monday to approve a settlement with an ...

(JTA) A woman will be the spiritual leader of an Israeli Orthodox synagogue for the first time. Shirat Hatamar, a congregation in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, elected Rabbanit Shira Marili ...

Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis was recently elected as the spiritual leader of Congregation Shirat Hatamar in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Efrat. Shirat Hatamar, a congregation in the West Bank ...