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Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black ...
The UK's oldest continuously-run synagogue in the City of London has said it is at risk due to plans for nearby skyscrapers.
Indian Link To The World’s Oldest Complete Bible, The Codex Sassoon. Photo: ANU. India-West News Desk. The world’s oldest complete Hebrew Bible, the Codex Sassoon, recently un ...
Ahavath Sholom is its Hebrew translation. And they held a klezmer concert to raise enough money to buy the building that has been in continuous use as a synagogue ever since — making it the oldest ...
In 1961, one of the oldest known synagogues in the Roman world was discovered during the construction of a highway to the new Fiumicino airport. That synagogue dates to the mid-fourth century ...
Goldsboro had the second-oldest synagogue building in North Carolina ... A gifted Torah, a march up Six Forks Road The growth years followed World War II, especially when Raleigh’s Westinghouse ...
A SYRIAN man observes the destroyed Jobar Synagogue, also known as Eliyahu Hanavi, in Jobar neighborhood, in Damascus, Syria, on December 21, 2024. JOBAR, Syria—In this Damascus suburb, the ...
Syria was once home to one of the world’s largest Jewish communities. Those numbers have shrunk dramatically, especially after the state of Israel was created in 1948. Today, only nine Jews live ...
After 13 years of civil war, Syria’s dwindling Jewish community can return to the Jobar Synagogue in Damascus, one of the world’s oldest, where they once gathered for prayers before the ...
JOBAR, Syria (AP) — In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region ...