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Oregon man who vandalized synagogue with white supremacist messaging sentenced to probation

The vandal who defaced an Oregon synagogue will serve four years under federal supervision instead of prison.

Unwanted duties: Why I keep saying yes when I want to say no

Some people are natural leaders and step up. Others don't. I'm of the latter.

01/03/2025

Syria's remaining Jews join Americans for first prayer in Damascus synagogue in 30 years

Over the past decades, the number of Jews in Syria decreased from about five thousand to seven elderly individuals.

Istanbul arrests Uzbek national planning terrorist attacks on Jewish schools, synagogues

According to reports, the man was given orders by an ISIS official to carry out attacks on synagogues and Jewish schools in Turkey and abroad.

Holiness in Haifa: The little shul that shines a spotlight on Orthodoxy

Rabbi Baruch Kind said that the synagogue had saved Haifa and that the study hall had taken the missile hit for the entire neighborhood.

By LIANE GRUNBERG WAKABAYASHI
16/02/2025

Officials decry anti-Israel vandalism at NJ synagogue

Anti-Israel demonstrators gathered in front of Oheb Shalom Congregation in New Jersey, to protest a talk by members of the IAF’s search-and-rescue unit.

By BEN SALES/JTA
28/01/2025
  Graffiti on the Maribor Synagogue reading "Death to the Jews, Glory to Slovenia," January 13, 2025

'Jews are the evil of the world:' Slovenian synagogue vandalized

The European Jewish Congress on X Monday accused neo-Nazis of being responsible for the graffiti.

 EYAL BEN SIMON (left) and Benny Gabbay.

Grapevine January 15, 2025: In their own words

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Jesse Cogan, ad exec who coined the slogan ‘Turn Friday Night into Shabbos,’ dies at 74

That slogan would spread well beyond his synagogue, becoming the rallying cry of the Jewish outreach movement, which worked to bring Jews closer to Jewish ritual practice.

By ARI GOLDMAN/JTA
14/01/2025
  Graffiti on the Bologna Synagogue reading JUSTICE FREE GAZA. January 11, 2025.

'Justice for Gaza': Rioters vandalize synagogue in Bologna

The riot was originally anti-police in nature, making the motives of the synagogue vandals unclear.

12/01/2025
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