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"The first time #YossefMurciano truly understood the meaning of #antisemitism was when he was 15 years old.

It was March 19, 2012, and as students gathered for morning prayers at #OzarHatorah school in #Paris, news spread that an Islamist #terrorist had attacked this school in #Toulouse, murdering a teacher, his two young sons, ages three and five, and an eight-year-old girl.

“Some people came into the #synagogue and said that we had to lock ourselves in a safe place because they didn’t know if other schools would be attacked,” recalls #Murciano, today president of the Union of #French #Jewish Students (#UEJF).

“The day after, we already had the army and police protecting our school. After that, I can hardly remember a moment when there was no police or army in front of Jewish schools and religious institutions.”

For Murciano’s generation, armed guards, security barriers, and military patrols were not extraordinary measures. They were part of everyday Jewish life."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-905013

"The first time #YossefMurciano truly understood the meaning of #antisemitism was when he was 15 years old.

It was March 19, 2012, and as students gathered for morning prayers at #OzarHatorah school in #Paris, news spread that an Islamist #terrorist had attacked this school in #Toulouse, murdering a teacher, his two young sons, ages three and five, and an eight-year-old girl.

“Some people came into the #synagogue and said that we had to lock ourselves in a safe place because they didn’t know if other schools would be attacked,” recalls #Murciano, today president of the Union of #French #Jewish Students (#UEJF).

“The day after, we already had the army and police protecting our school. After that, I can hardly remember a moment when there was no police or army in front of Jewish schools and religious institutions.”

For Murciano’s generation, armed guards, security barriers, and military patrols were not extraordinary measures. They were part of everyday Jewish life."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-905013

Ashkenazi Jews

Author’s Note: This post has mentions of Nazis, the Holocaust, & Nazi Germany. We completely understand if you wish to skip over this post. We’ll catch you in the next one!

Also known as Ashkenazic Jews, Ashkenazis, or Ashkenazim.

This is a form of distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish Diaspora. Emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland (Western Germany) & northern France. They migrated there from centers such as the Italian peninsula & the Southern Levant. This includes present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, & Jordan.

After numerous massacres of Jews during the Crusades (11th-13th centuries), they began a gradual eastward migration due to mounting restrictions within the Holy Roman Empire & the favorable policies of Casimir the Great & others.

This diaspora ramped up after the persecution during the Black Death of the 14th century. The bulk of the Ashkenazi Jews had migrated to the Kingdom of Poland (which includes modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, & parts of Russia). This area became the main center of Ashkenazi Jewry until the Holocaust.

Ashkenazim adapted their traditions, rites, & customs to Europe. They traditionally followed the German rite synagogue ritual & until the Holocaust primarily spoke Yiddish, an offshoot of Middle High German written in a variety of the Hebrew script, with significant Hebrew, Aramaic, & Slavic influences.

The Yiddish language progressively declined in prestige, in favor of national languages & Hebrew, being stigmatized by assimilationists & later also Zionists. Though it was spoken by over 11 million people worldwide before the Holocaust. The Yiddishist movement, which sought to preserve & revive the language, faded through the 20th century. Including Duolingo adding Yiddish as a language.

As a proportion of the world Jewish population, Ashkenazim were estimated to be 3% in the 11th century, rising to 92% in 1930, near the population’s peak. The Ashkenazi population was significantly diminished by the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during WWII, which killed around 6 million Jews. Before WWII, the estimated worldwide Jewish population was 15.3-16.7 million, with 92% being Ashkenazi. As of 2023, the population of Ashkenazim was estimated to be around 10-13 million out of 15.8 million total Jews.

The name Ashkenazi comes from the biblical figure of Ashkenaz. He’s the 1st son of Gomer, grandson of Japhet, great-grandson of Noah, & a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. The name for Gomer has often been linked to the Cimmerians.

The Biblical Ashkenazis are usually derived from Assyrian Askuza, a people who expelled the Cimmerians from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates. The name Askuza is identified with the Scythians.

In Jeremiah 51:27, Ashkenaz figures as 1 of 3 kingdoms in the far north, the others being Minni (or Mannaea), an ancient kingdom that flourished in northwestern Iran, & Arrat (corresponding to Urartu), called on by God to resist Babylon.

Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia (usually identified with Scandinavia), viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, in the 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th century, in the History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertci, Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia.

As it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Chimea, & areas to the east. They’re also identified with the Slavim or Slavs. In keeping with the custom of designating areas of Jewish settlement with biblical names, Spain was called Sefarad (Obadiah 20), France was called Tsarefat (I Kings 17:9), & Bohemia was called the Land of Canaan.

Given the close links between the Jewish communities of France & Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to the Jews of both medieval Germany & France.

In later times, the word Ashkenaz is used to designate southern & western Germany, the ritual of which sections differs somewhat from that of eastern Germany & Poland. Thus, the prayer book of Isaiah Horowitz (a prominent rabbi & mystic), & many others, give the piyyutim (a Jewish liturgical poem), according to the Minhag of Ashkenaz & Poland. A Minhag is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism.

In a religious sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is any Jew whose family tradition & synagogue ritual follow Ashkenazi practices (German rite). Until the Ashkenazi community 1st began to develop in the Early Middle Ages, the centers of Jewish religious authority were in the Islamic world, at Baghdad & Islamic Spain. German Ashkenaz was so geographically distant that it developed a minhag of its own.

The counterpart of Ashkenazi is Sephardic. Since most non-Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews follow Sephardic rabbinical authorities, whether or not they’re ethnically Sephardic. By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi (a.k.a. Oriental Jews; Jews who lived in the Muslim world) who married into an Orthodox or Haredi (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox) Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her kids to be Ashkenazi Jews.

On the other hand, an Ashkenazi woman who married a Sephardi or Mizrahi is expected to take on Sephardic practices & the kids will “inherit” a Sephardic identity. Though in practice, many families do compromise. A “convert” usually follows the practice of the rabbinical court (beth din) that converted them.

Culturally, an Ashkenazi Jew can be identified by the concept of Yiddishkeit, which means “Jewishness” in the Yiddish language. Before the Haskalah (a.k.a. the Jewish Enlightenment) & the emancipation of Jews in Europe, this meant the study of the Torah & the Talmud for men, & communal life governed by the observance of Jewish Law for men & women.

From the Rhineland to Riga (the largest city in Latvia) to Romania, most Jews prayed in liturgical Ashkenazi Hebrew, & spoke Yiddish in their secular (worldly) lives. But with modernization, Yiddishkeit now includes not just Orthodoxy & Hasidism, but a broader range of movements, ideologies, practices, & traditions in which Ashkenazi have participated & somehow kept a sense of Jewishness. Although pockets of Jews still speak Yiddish, Yiddishkeit can be identified in manners of speech, styles of humor, & in patterns of association.

As Ashkenazi Jews moved away from Europe, mostly in the form of aliyah to Israel. Or immigration to North America, South Africa, Europe (particularly France), & Latin America, the geographic isolation has given way to mixing with other cultures, & with non-Ashkenazi Jews who, similarly, are no longer isolated in distinct geographic locales.

Hebrew has replaced Yiddish as the primary Jewish language for many Ashkenazi Jews. Although many Hasidic & Hareidi groups still use Yiddish in daily life. Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographic Land of Israel or the Palestine region, where the State of Israel was established.

France’s blended Jewish community is typical of the cultural recombination that’s going on among Jews throughout the world. Although France expelled its original Jewish population in the Middle Ages, by the time of the French Revolution, there were 2 distinct Jewish populations.

One consisted of Sephardic Jews, originally refugees from the Inquisition (which no one expects! Sorry, we’re Monty Python fans here.) & concentrated in the southwest. While the other community was Ashkenazi, concentrated in formerly German Alsace, & mainly speaking a German dialect similar to Yiddish.

The 3rd community of Provencal Jews living in Comtat Venaissin was technically outside France, & was later absorbed into the Sephardim. Comtat Venaissin (called Comtat, for short) was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791.

But after emancipation, a sense of a unified French Jewry emerged, especially when France was wracked by the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s. (We’ll be doing a post about the Dreyfus Affair.) In the 1920s & 30s, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe arrived in large numbers as refugees from antisemitism, the Russian Revolution, & the economic turmoil of the Great Depression.

By the 1930s, Paris had a vibrant Yiddish culture, & many Jews were involved in diverse political movements. After the Vichy years & the Holocaust, the French Jewish population was augmented once again, 1st by Ashkenazi refugees from Central Europe, & later by Sephardi immigrants & refugees from North Africa, many of them francophone. Francophone refers to people/organizations who use French (language) regularly.

Ashkenazi Jews didn’t transmit their traditions or achievements by text. Instead, these traditions were passed down orally from one generation to the next. The desire to maintain pre-Holocaust traditions relating to Ashkenazi culture has often been met with criticism by Jews in Eastern Europe.

In an ethnic sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is a descendant of the Jews who settled in the Central European region of “Ashkenaz.” For roughly 1,000 years, the Ashkenazim were a reproductively isolated population in Europe.

Despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow of countries from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews. Since the mid-20th century, many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities & non-Jews.

Religious persecution of the Jews in Western & Central Europe led to a significant migration of the Ashkenazi Jews into Eastern Europe. This resulted in a major cultural divide between Western/Central & Eastern Ashkenazi communities. In particular, this was reflected in the division of Yiddish into Western & Eastern Yiddish dialects. As well as in other cultural distinctions: traditions, food, dress, etc.

Initially, the Jews of Eastern Europe enjoyed relative freedom in terms of movement, being invited by the kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Over time, the situation was reversed. By the 19th century, the Jews in the West had gradually been integrated into the general society.

While the Eastern Ashkenazi maintained their strict Jewish traditions & were mostly confined to ghettos, especially in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, which incorporated a considerable amount of land where the Eastern Ashkenazi lived: Poland & Lithuania.

Well-known differences in practices include:

• Observance of Passover (Pesach)
  • Ashkenazi Jews traditionally refrain from eating legumes, grain, millet, & rice. Quinoa has become accepted as a food grain in North American communities. Sephardi Jews typically don’t prohibit these foods.
• Notwithstanding stricter requirements for the ACTUAL slaughter, Sephardi Jews permit the rear portions of an animal after proper Halakhic removal of the sciatic nerve. While many Ashkenazi Jews don’t.
• Ashkenazi Jews often name newborns after deceased family members, not after living relatives. Sephardi Jews often name their kids after their grandparents, even if those grandparents are still living. An exception to this is among Dutch Jews, where Ashkenazi for centuries used naming conventions otherwise attributed exclusively to Sephardim, such as Chuts. Chuts is the name given to Jews who immigrated to London from the Netherlands in the 1850s-1860s.
• Ashkenazi tefillins are wound toward the body, not away from it. Ashkenazim put on the tefillin while standing up. Other Jews generally do so while sitting down. A tefillin(s) is/are sets of small black leather boxes with leather straps having scrolls of parchment written with verses of the Torah inside.
• The prayer shawl (tallit/tallis) is worn by all Ashkenazi men AFTER marriage. Except for Western European Ashkenazi men who wear it from the bar mitzvah. In Sephardi or Mizrahi Judaism, the prayer shawl is commonly worn from early childhood.

The term Ashkenazi also refers to the Nusach Ashkenaz, the liturgical tradition used by Ashkenazi Jews in their siddur (prayer book). A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition’s choice of prayers, the text of prayers & melodies used in the singing of prayers. 2 other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazi Jews are Nusach Sefard (not to be confused with the Sephardic ritual), which is the general Polish Hasidic nusach, and Nusach Ari, used by those in Chabad.

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Lot of fedi commentary on #Australia's #RoyalCommission.

Pretty standard. Five testimonies about firebombing a #synagogue, being cut off from employment opportunities, harrassed in the street, or mass-fucking-murdered on #Bondibeach will get ignored. One person whining people were mean to them for wearing an #Israel pin proves their case against #antisemitism being real.

Things like the royal commission are huge tactical errors on the part of #Jewish #diaspora institutions. They're so stuck on these failed strategies they think doing the same shit harder bigger faster stronger will defeat antisemitism™.

It fuels it.

If the underlying #bigotry believes #Jews control #media, #government and whatever, then anything in the media or by the government, etc that demonstrates antisemitism proves the fucking #conspiracy to them... and the opposite also proves it. Magic!

#Socialmedia is an accelerant. Ya can't win playing a crooked fucking game.

Boomer anti-antisemitism = the wise men of Chelm.

Lot of fedi commentary on #Australia's #RoyalCommission.

Pretty standard. Five testimonies about firebombing a #synagogue, being cut off from employment opportunities, harrassed in the street, or mass-fucking-murdered on #Bondibeach will get ignored. One person whining people were mean to them for wearing an #Israel pin proves their case against #antisemitism being real.

Things like the royal commission are huge tactical errors on the part of #Jewish #diaspora institutions. They're so stuck on these failed strategies they think doing the same shit harder bigger faster stronger will defeat antisemitism™.

It fuels it.

If the underlying #bigotry believes #Jews control #media, #government and whatever, then anything in the media or by the government, etc that demonstrates antisemitism proves the fucking #conspiracy to them... and the opposite also proves it. Magic!

#Socialmedia is an accelerant. Ya can't win playing a crooked fucking game.

Boomer anti-antisemitism = the wise men of Chelm.

"#Antisemitism in our seven countries is no longer a surge; it is our new normal,” the organization said in a statement. “Governments must stop reacting after #Jews are attacked and start acting before, with real #securityfunding, stronger laws and #socialmedia platforms that enforce their own rules.”

Fifteen Jews were #murdered at a #Hanukkah celebration on #BondiBeach in #Sydney, two were #killed at #HeatonPark #Synagogue in #Manchester on #YomKippur, two were killed at the Capital #Jewish Museum in #WashingtonDC, and one was killed in #Boulder, #Colorado.

The figure was the highest since 1994, when 85 people — including 67 Jews — were killed in the #AMIA #bombing in #Argentina."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-deadliest-year-in-decades-for-diaspora-jews-task-force-warns-hate-is-our-new-normal/

"#Antisemitism in our seven countries is no longer a surge; it is our new normal,” the organization said in a statement. “Governments must stop reacting after #Jews are attacked and start acting before, with real #securityfunding, stronger laws and #socialmedia platforms that enforce their own rules.”

Fifteen Jews were #murdered at a #Hanukkah celebration on #BondiBeach in #Sydney, two were #killed at #HeatonPark #Synagogue in #Manchester on #YomKippur, two were killed at the Capital #Jewish Museum in #WashingtonDC, and one was killed in #Boulder, #Colorado.

The figure was the highest since 1994, when 85 people — including 67 Jews — were killed in the #AMIA #bombing in #Argentina."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-deadliest-year-in-decades-for-diaspora-jews-task-force-warns-hate-is-our-new-normal/

"In May 1818, #MordecaiManuelNoah, a prominent #Jew of his time and a member of the #Madison administration, delivered a discourse on #Jewish #history on the occasion of a #synagogue consecration. One man read #Noah’s words with interest, and took pen to paper to say so.

“Your sect by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal spirit of #religious #intolerance,” the correspondent noted, in elegant cursive. “Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religious, as they do our civil, rights by putting them all on equal footing. But more remains to be done, for although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.”

The letter’s author was #ThomasJefferson. 200 years later, there’s still work to do.

The Jefferson letter is one of 75 objects on view at All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and #American #Democracy, the American Jewish #Historical Society’s new exhibit at the Center for #JewishHistory."

https://forward.com/culture/839450/american-jewish-historical-society-exhibit-250-all-we-have-standing-between-us/

"In May 1818, #MordecaiManuelNoah, a prominent #Jew of his time and a member of the #Madison administration, delivered a discourse on #Jewish #history on the occasion of a #synagogue consecration. One man read #Noah’s words with interest, and took pen to paper to say so.

“Your sect by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal spirit of #religious #intolerance,” the correspondent noted, in elegant cursive. “Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religious, as they do our civil, rights by putting them all on equal footing. But more remains to be done, for although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.”

The letter’s author was #ThomasJefferson. 200 years later, there’s still work to do.

The Jefferson letter is one of 75 objects on view at All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and #American #Democracy, the American Jewish #Historical Society’s new exhibit at the Center for #JewishHistory."

https://forward.com/culture/839450/american-jewish-historical-society-exhibit-250-all-we-have-standing-between-us/

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"#German prosecutors have charged a 15-year-old boy from #Bavaria with allegedly planning a #terrorist attack against a #synagogue after investigators found that he had stockpiled a large quantity of #pyrotechnic materials.

The indictment was filed with the juvenile division of the #Augsburg District Court, the German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine reported.

The teenager faces several charges, including preparing a serious act of violence endangering state security, intentionally possessing #explosive materials without authorization, causing an #explosion and inflicting dangerous bodily harm."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/bjrzlf2nmx?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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"#German prosecutors have charged a 15-year-old boy from #Bavaria with allegedly planning a #terrorist attack against a #synagogue after investigators found that he had stockpiled a large quantity of #pyrotechnic materials.

The indictment was filed with the juvenile division of the #Augsburg District Court, the German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine reported.

The teenager faces several charges, including preparing a serious act of violence endangering state security, intentionally possessing #explosive materials without authorization, causing an #explosion and inflicting dangerous bodily harm."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/bjrzlf2nmx?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

"#Synagogues have cancelled services and diverted costs from other services to prioritise their safety in the wake of rising levels of #antiSemitism in #Australia, the Royal Commission has been told.

#Sydney silk #RichardLancaster addressed the inquiry on Monday and spoke about the financial challenges synagogues have faced when it came to making their organisations safe.

“Representatives of the #synagogue told of how they cancelled Friday night services because they couldn’t afford to pay a guard, and felt that they could not discharge their duty of care to congregants without one,” Mr #Lancaster said.

“The Commission has received submissions from very many synagogues around Australia. A constant theme is the organisational time, energy and money that has to be committed to security.”

https://www.themercury.com.au/news/breaking-news/synagogues-forced-to-cancel-services-over-security-costs-royal-commission-told/news-story/91a5be3e76116ca3acf7c48fe201accb

"#Synagogues have cancelled services and diverted costs from other services to prioritise their safety in the wake of rising levels of #antiSemitism in #Australia, the Royal Commission has been told.

#Sydney silk #RichardLancaster addressed the inquiry on Monday and spoke about the financial challenges synagogues have faced when it came to making their organisations safe.

“Representatives of the #synagogue told of how they cancelled Friday night services because they couldn’t afford to pay a guard, and felt that they could not discharge their duty of care to congregants without one,” Mr #Lancaster said.

“The Commission has received submissions from very many synagogues around Australia. A constant theme is the organisational time, energy and money that has to be committed to security.”

https://www.themercury.com.au/news/breaking-news/synagogues-forced-to-cancel-services-over-security-costs-royal-commission-told/news-story/91a5be3e76116ca3acf7c48fe201accb

We took a day off (not #hiking) for regeneration. We stopped in the historic town of Tykocin. Today's #OneShotADay is from Tykocin's magnificent Great Synagogue, (sadly) a museum today. Before Holocaust about half of the four thousand inhabitants of Tykocin were Jewish.

#Tykocin #hiking #vacation #synagogue #holocaust

We took a day off (not #hiking) for regeneration. We stopped in the historic town of Tykocin. Today's #OneShotADay is from Tykocin's magnificent Great Synagogue, (sadly) a museum today. Before Holocaust about half of the four thousand inhabitants of Tykocin were Jewish.

#Tykocin #hiking #vacation #synagogue #holocaust

Well... we've found one of the key areas where I'm completely insensitive to the valid needs of the Orthodox community.

Lets stop this time change nonsense once and for all! ⏰️

"For many #Orthodox #Jews, a typical winter weekday begins early: head to #synagogue, gather in a #minyan for morning prayers, then rush off to work.

Orthodox #Jewish groups say a bill that would make #daylightsaving time permanent could upend that routine by pushing winter sunrises, and the earliest permissible time for some prayers, an hour later.

#AgudathIsrael of #America is among the groups urging the Senate to reject legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide, arguing that the change would create both public safety risks and significant challenges for #OrthodoxJewish religious life."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-902853

Well... we've found one of the key areas where I'm completely insensitive to the valid needs of the Orthodox community.

Lets stop this time change nonsense once and for all! ⏰️

"For many #Orthodox #Jews, a typical winter weekday begins early: head to #synagogue, gather in a #minyan for morning prayers, then rush off to work.

Orthodox #Jewish groups say a bill that would make #daylightsaving time permanent could upend that routine by pushing winter sunrises, and the earliest permissible time for some prayers, an hour later.

#AgudathIsrael of #America is among the groups urging the Senate to reject legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide, arguing that the change would create both public safety risks and significant challenges for #OrthodoxJewish religious life."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-902853

A new #exhibition at the old #synagogue in #Erfurt shows the #history of #Yiddish from its beginnings to the age of #printing
#ausstellung : Jiddisch/ייִדיש – Von den Anfängen bis zum Buchdruck.
https://mjsnow.hypotheses.org/22159

A new #exhibition at the old #synagogue in #Erfurt shows the #history of #Yiddish from its beginnings to the age of #printing
#ausstellung : Jiddisch/ייִדיש – Von den Anfängen bis zum Buchdruck.
https://mjsnow.hypotheses.org/22159

"As #prisons go, #EasternStatePenitentiary in #Philadelphia was unusually luxurious. For one, it had flush toilets — beating out even the #WhiteHouse in making the upgrade, #museum exhibit developer #BethTinker told me on a recent tour.

But if plumbing reflected the #penitentiary’s commitment to #prisoners’ physical well-being, its biggest innovation was more spiritual. Eastern State housed the first #synagogue inside a #US #prison, complete with a #Torah #ark and #nertamid, or eternal light. That restored sanctuary — a short walk from gangster #AlCapone’s former cell — is now newly open to the public in a museum exhibit, Freedom through Faith: #Judaism at #EasternState and Beyond.

“It’s a place really of humanity, when you’re not getting a lot of humanity in this space,” Tinker said.

The synagogue, founded in 1922, hosted holiday celebrations and weekly #Shabbat services."

https://forward.com/culture/838196/eastern-state-penitentiary-synagogue-philadelphia/

"As #prisons go, #EasternStatePenitentiary in #Philadelphia was unusually luxurious. For one, it had flush toilets — beating out even the #WhiteHouse in making the upgrade, #museum exhibit developer #BethTinker told me on a recent tour.

But if plumbing reflected the #penitentiary’s commitment to #prisoners’ physical well-being, its biggest innovation was more spiritual. Eastern State housed the first #synagogue inside a #US #prison, complete with a #Torah #ark and #nertamid, or eternal light. That restored sanctuary — a short walk from gangster #AlCapone’s former cell — is now newly open to the public in a museum exhibit, Freedom through Faith: #Judaism at #EasternState and Beyond.

“It’s a place really of humanity, when you’re not getting a lot of humanity in this space,” Tinker said.

The synagogue, founded in 1922, hosted holiday celebrations and weekly #Shabbat services."

https://forward.com/culture/838196/eastern-state-penitentiary-synagogue-philadelphia/

Interesting Jewish experience on a city tour in Germany. These questions around memory are pretty important and thought-provoking.

"A year before, I’d gone on two more of these types of #Jewish memorial trips. In Poland, we’d visited #Auschwitz, #Treblinka, and the #WarsawGhetto. In #Prague, we saw the Old #Jewish Quarter, #Theresienstadt, and #Europe’s oldest #synagogue. Here, too, we naturally experienced these cities and tourist sights through the eyes of #Jews. Each monument was viewed and explained, each museum was visited or at least noticed, each chance for lamentation was taken.

But on this city tour through #Dortmund, I noticed something rather peculiar: no Jews. With one exception: me. Oh well, I thought, today, my generation is so trained to be tolerant that it would practically be an advantage to be the only #Jew in a large group."

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/390165/the-kristallnacht-monument-and-the-question-of-whether-to-stop/

Interesting Jewish experience on a city tour in Germany. These questions around memory are pretty important and thought-provoking.

"A year before, I’d gone on two more of these types of #Jewish memorial trips. In Poland, we’d visited #Auschwitz, #Treblinka, and the #WarsawGhetto. In #Prague, we saw the Old #Jewish Quarter, #Theresienstadt, and #Europe’s oldest #synagogue. Here, too, we naturally experienced these cities and tourist sights through the eyes of #Jews. Each monument was viewed and explained, each museum was visited or at least noticed, each chance for lamentation was taken.

But on this city tour through #Dortmund, I noticed something rather peculiar: no Jews. With one exception: me. Oh well, I thought, today, my generation is so trained to be tolerant that it would practically be an advantage to be the only #Jew in a large group."

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/390165/the-kristallnacht-monument-and-the-question-of-whether-to-stop/

👀 :altneushul:

"On Saturday evening, at around 9:30 p.m., the Anti-Crime Brigade (#BAC) and General Directorate for Internal Security (#DGSI) were informed of a possible Islamist #terrorist attack targeting a #synagogue in #Sarcelles, potentially involving a Toyota vehicle.

The location of the vehicle was #Rue #HenriDunant, 500 meters (about 550 yards) from the #GreatSynagogue, a cinema, and several restaurants.

#France's specialized National Anti-#Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that the vehicle was unoccupied when it was discovered by security forces. It was also found to have been stolen, and its license plates had been partially removed.

PNAT confirmed that a #Kalashnikov-type assault #rifle with several magazines and a #Beretta #pistol, also loaded with a magazine, were both found in the vehicle."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-902259?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

👀 :altneushul:

"On Saturday evening, at around 9:30 p.m., the Anti-Crime Brigade (#BAC) and General Directorate for Internal Security (#DGSI) were informed of a possible Islamist #terrorist attack targeting a #synagogue in #Sarcelles, potentially involving a Toyota vehicle.

The location of the vehicle was #Rue #HenriDunant, 500 meters (about 550 yards) from the #GreatSynagogue, a cinema, and several restaurants.

#France's specialized National Anti-#Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that the vehicle was unoccupied when it was discovered by security forces. It was also found to have been stolen, and its license plates had been partially removed.

PNAT confirmed that a #Kalashnikov-type assault #rifle with several magazines and a #Beretta #pistol, also loaded with a magazine, were both found in the vehicle."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-902259?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

"#Synagogues often give those inside them a sense of connection to the heavens, although they do not normally float through the sky. But in #Nabatele, a large, outdoor installation by #artist and #architect #AnnaKamyshan, a #shtetl-style #synagogue appears to hover over #Venice, perched on a massive rock suspended above water.

The work, an official collateral event of the 61st International #Art Exhibition of #LaBiennalediVenezia, will be on view from July 16 to September 16 at Arsenale Nord in the #Castello district of Venice.

It will be presented in collaboration with the #Montreal #Jewish #Museum and curated by #MariaVeits and #YevgeniyFiks.

At once playful, spiritual, and unsettling, Nabatele imagines a Jewish house of worship without ground beneath it."

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-902035

"#Synagogues often give those inside them a sense of connection to the heavens, although they do not normally float through the sky. But in #Nabatele, a large, outdoor installation by #artist and #architect #AnnaKamyshan, a #shtetl-style #synagogue appears to hover over #Venice, perched on a massive rock suspended above water.

The work, an official collateral event of the 61st International #Art Exhibition of #LaBiennalediVenezia, will be on view from July 16 to September 16 at Arsenale Nord in the #Castello district of Venice.

It will be presented in collaboration with the #Montreal #Jewish #Museum and curated by #MariaVeits and #YevgeniyFiks.

At once playful, spiritual, and unsettling, Nabatele imagines a Jewish house of worship without ground beneath it."

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-902035

"Delegates from 25 countries gathered last weekend in #London at the #Liberal #Jewish #Synagogue to mark the centenary of the founding of the #WorldUnion for #ProgressiveJudaism.

At the risk of oversimplifying history, I would summarise the first 100 years of the World Union as asking: can #Progressive #Judaism build institutions strong enough to hold us? And I want to suggest that the question for the next 100 years must be: can Progressive Judaism build ideas strong enough to carry us?

Not idea-building as an afterthought to institutional survival, but idea-building as its prerequisite."

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/leap-of-faith-imagining-the-next-progressive-century/

"Delegates from 25 countries gathered last weekend in #London at the #Liberal #Jewish #Synagogue to mark the centenary of the founding of the #WorldUnion for #ProgressiveJudaism.

At the risk of oversimplifying history, I would summarise the first 100 years of the World Union as asking: can #Progressive #Judaism build institutions strong enough to hold us? And I want to suggest that the question for the next 100 years must be: can Progressive Judaism build ideas strong enough to carry us?

Not idea-building as an afterthought to institutional survival, but idea-building as its prerequisite."

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/leap-of-faith-imagining-the-next-progressive-century/

Europe honoring and upholding its important traditions. Heartwarming.

"The Federation of #Jewish Communities of #Spain said Monday it is considering legal action after what it described as “one of the most serious cases of #antisemitic harassment recorded in #Barcelona in recent years.”

According to the federation, the incident took place late Friday night after a group of Jewish citizens from #France left a #synagogue following prayers and a #Shabbat meal.

Two members of the group, who were identifiable as Jewish because they were wearing #kippahs, one of them in Hasidic dress, became the target of hostile looks, insults and a chase that lasted nearly an hour and a half as they made their way to their hotel, according to their testimony."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/skckzxyxfe

Europe honoring and upholding its important traditions. Heartwarming.

"The Federation of #Jewish Communities of #Spain said Monday it is considering legal action after what it described as “one of the most serious cases of #antisemitic harassment recorded in #Barcelona in recent years.”

According to the federation, the incident took place late Friday night after a group of Jewish citizens from #France left a #synagogue following prayers and a #Shabbat meal.

Two members of the group, who were identifiable as Jewish because they were wearing #kippahs, one of them in Hasidic dress, became the target of hostile looks, insults and a chase that lasted nearly an hour and a half as they made their way to their hotel, according to their testimony."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/skckzxyxfe

They're going to use this very legitimate issue to fuck America over.

"The #US #SupremeCourt has agreed to hear the case of #DanielGrand, an #Orthodox #Jew from #Ohio who says local authorities barred him from holding #Jewish #prayer gatherings at his home and that neighbors harassed him over the practice.

The decision by the nation’s highest court to take up the case is considered highly unusual in the #American #legal system, as the Supreme Court hears only about 50 cases a year.

The dispute began in 2021. Grand, who lives in #UniversityHeights, wanted to pray with a #minyan, the quorum of 10 Jewish men required for certain communal prayers. Because Jewish law prohibits driving on #Shabbat and holidays, and the local #synagogue was too far away to reach on foot, he decided to host worshippers in his private home."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/rkqhgwu7zx#google_vignette

They're going to use this very legitimate issue to fuck America over.

"The #US #SupremeCourt has agreed to hear the case of #DanielGrand, an #Orthodox #Jew from #Ohio who says local authorities barred him from holding #Jewish #prayer gatherings at his home and that neighbors harassed him over the practice.

The decision by the nation’s highest court to take up the case is considered highly unusual in the #American #legal system, as the Supreme Court hears only about 50 cases a year.

The dispute began in 2021. Grand, who lives in #UniversityHeights, wanted to pray with a #minyan, the quorum of 10 Jewish men required for certain communal prayers. Because Jewish law prohibits driving on #Shabbat and holidays, and the local #synagogue was too far away to reach on foot, he decided to host worshippers in his private home."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/rkqhgwu7zx#google_vignette

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"#Syrian-#American #Jew, #JosephJajati, told The Media Line that a historic chair stolen from a #synagogue in #Damascus' Old City's #JewishQuarter has been recovered, crediting local residents with helping secure the return of what he described as one of the Syrian #Jewish community's most significant heritage artifacts.

Speaking exclusively to The Media Line, #Jajati said he felt "immense gratitude, relief, and joy" following the chair's recovery, describing the outcome as "a great success" for both the local community and those committed to preserving #Syria's Jewish heritage.

According to Jajati, the recovered object is not merely a piece of furniture but the Chair of #Elijah (“Kisse shel #Eliyahu”), a ceremonial chair that holds deep religious significance in Jewish tradition. The chair is traditionally used during circumcision ceremonies, symbolizing the presence of the Prophet Elijah."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-900805

"#Syrian-#American #Jew, #JosephJajati, told The Media Line that a historic chair stolen from a #synagogue in #Damascus' Old City's #JewishQuarter has been recovered, crediting local residents with helping secure the return of what he described as one of the Syrian #Jewish community's most significant heritage artifacts.

Speaking exclusively to The Media Line, #Jajati said he felt "immense gratitude, relief, and joy" following the chair's recovery, describing the outcome as "a great success" for both the local community and those committed to preserving #Syria's Jewish heritage.

According to Jajati, the recovered object is not merely a piece of furniture but the Chair of #Elijah (“Kisse shel #Eliyahu”), a ceremonial chair that holds deep religious significance in Jewish tradition. The chair is traditionally used during circumcision ceremonies, symbolizing the presence of the Prophet Elijah."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-900805

"Police in #Belgium said on Friday that they had three people in custody in connection with an #explosion that occurred on March 9 outside a #synagogue in #Liege.

One of the three suspects has been arraigned and the remaining two are awaiting arraignment, the 7sur7 news site reported, citing sources at the federal prosecution service. Police arrested the three suspects on Thursday along with four other individuals who have since been released and are no longer considered suspects, the report said.

The suspects in custody are believed to have acted for payment on behalf of handlers whom the prosecutors did not name.

The #Islamist #HarakatAshabalYaminalIslamiya group has claimed responsibility for setting off explosions at the #SynagoguedeLiège, as well as outside a #Jewish #school in #Amsterdam and #synagogues in #Rotterdam[...]"

https://www.jns.org/news/antisemitism/belgium-nabs-three-suspects-in-liege-synagogue-blast

"Police in #Belgium said on Friday that they had three people in custody in connection with an #explosion that occurred on March 9 outside a #synagogue in #Liege.

One of the three suspects has been arraigned and the remaining two are awaiting arraignment, the 7sur7 news site reported, citing sources at the federal prosecution service. Police arrested the three suspects on Thursday along with four other individuals who have since been released and are no longer considered suspects, the report said.

The suspects in custody are believed to have acted for payment on behalf of handlers whom the prosecutors did not name.

The #Islamist #HarakatAshabalYaminalIslamiya group has claimed responsibility for setting off explosions at the #SynagoguedeLiège, as well as outside a #Jewish #school in #Amsterdam and #synagogues in #Rotterdam[...]"

https://www.jns.org/news/antisemitism/belgium-nabs-three-suspects-in-liege-synagogue-blast

💙💛 Blue and Gold. An abandoned synagogue in Pennsylvania, USA.

#Photography #Pennsylvania #History #AbandonedPlaces #LostPlace #Synagogue

💙💛 Blue and Gold. An abandoned synagogue in Pennsylvania, USA.

#Photography #Pennsylvania #History #AbandonedPlaces #LostPlace #Synagogue

One of the women's listening windows from the 12thc #synagogue at #Speyer. Gender separation but a need to hear the service: #TechnologiesOfListening #FensterFreitag

One of the women's listening windows from the 12thc #synagogue at #Speyer. Gender separation but a need to hear the service: #TechnologiesOfListening #FensterFreitag

Detalle del arte arquitectónico, de la sinagoga de Córdoba.

https://eu.zonerama.com/bobfisherphoto/Photo/15457172/631952270

#fotografía #photography #arquitectura #architecture #arte #art #sinagoga #synagogue #colors #Córdoba

Detalle del arte arquitectónico, de la sinagoga de Córdoba.

https://eu.zonerama.com/bobfisherphoto/Photo/15457172/631952270

#fotografía #photography #arquitectura #architecture #arte #art #sinagoga #synagogue #colors #Córdoba

Ante la arquitectura y el color, de la sinagoga de Córdoba.

https://eu.zonerama.com/bobfisherphoto/Photo/15457172/631952269

#fotografía #photography #arquitectura #architecture #arte #art #sinagoga #synagogue #colors #Córdoba

Ante la arquitectura y el color, de la sinagoga de Córdoba.

https://eu.zonerama.com/bobfisherphoto/Photo/15457172/631952269

#fotografía #photography #arquitectura #architecture #arte #art #sinagoga #synagogue #colors #Córdoba

Detalles arquitectónicos, del interior de la sinagoga de Córdoba.

https://eu.zonerama.com/bobfisherphoto/Photo/15457172/631952268

#fotografía #photography #arquitectura #architecture #arte #art #sinagoga #synagogue #colors #Córdoba

Detalles arquitectónicos, del interior de la sinagoga de Córdoba.

https://eu.zonerama.com/bobfisherphoto/Photo/15457172/631952268

#fotografía #photography #arquitectura #architecture #arte #art #sinagoga #synagogue #colors #Córdoba

"#Canadian #Jewish leaders renewed calls for stronger action against #antisemitism after a man allegedly attempted to set fire to a #Montreal-area #synagogue early on June 5.

Police responded shortly after midnight to #TempleEmanuElBethSholom in #Westmount, #Quebec, after receiving a 911 call reporting a break-in. Authorities said a 38-year-old man broke a window and attempted to ignite a fire inside the #synagogue before being arrested at the scene. The building sustained only minor damage and was unoccupied at the time."

https://www.jns.org/news/world/canadian-jewish-leaders-demand-action-after-attempted-arson-at-quebec-synagogue