A look at Brooklyn, then and now. In 1855 a group of twelve Bavarian, Dutch and Portuguese Jews gathered in a Brooklyn home to found the United Brethren Society, a mutual benefit society that pooled ...

Congregation House of Israel marked 150 years in Hot Springs on May 8 with a celebration that honored its history, interfaith ...

A historic synagogue in Greenport may part ways with its longtime leader, an attorney for the temple told Newsday. Congregation Tifereth Israel plans to hold a meeting with congregants Monday to ...

Faith leaders in Philadelphia say an attack on one house of worship is an attack on all, a week after a historic synagogue in Old City was hit with a series of potential hate crimes. Police, ...

Lori Adelman’s outlook in the two years since the arson attack has wavered almost daily. It started with a late-evening phone call on Halloween night in 2021, a day before her and her husband’s ...

Rabbi Sam Yolen in his office with his dog Stella (Photo by Jarrad Saffren) The Kesher Israel Congregation in West Chester began a new rabbi search in September 2022. There were dozens of candidates, ...

Original location of Congregation Beth Israel (1937), at 227 N. Olive St. Dedicated in 1902. Photo: Digital collection of the L.A. Public Library “A shul has nothing to do with wood, bricks and ...

Two years ago, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, was rolling around, and members of the Men’s Club and Ritual Committee at Congregation Tifereth Israel realized there wasn’t a big celebration ...