Members of the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson are picking up the pieces after an anti-Semitic arsonist allegedly set ...
Mount Sinai Beth Israel began closing its doors Tuesday after a New York appeals court rejected a community group’s bid to keep it open. The ruling, handed down by the Appellate Division of the state ...
“We will not only survive, we will thrive,” the congregation’s student rabbi and spiritual leader, Benjamin Russell, told his ...
What was once a place of worship filled with precious objects packed with meaning now sits in heavy layers of dark soot, ...
The arson of a synagogue in Mississippi recalls incidents from the Torah and from throughout our history, writes.
Rabbi Steve Burnstein, a Kansas City native and current rabbi in Kibbutz Gezer in Israel, is currently back in his hometown as a rabbi-in-residence at Congregation Beth Torah. A former director of ...
In the early morning hours of January 10, fire tore through Beth Israel Congregation, Mississippi’s oldest synagogue and a spiritual home that has anchored Jackson’s Jewish community for more than 160 ...
It has been truly, legitimately an overwhelming feeling of being supported,” said Abram Orlansky, who has been working with ...
Almost 60 years ago, a hate group bombed Beth Israel Congregation. Decades later, a new attack has the congregation ...
An arson fire at Beth Israel Synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, is drawing reflection on the past and renewing fears about ...
A Torah carried from Europe by Gilbert Metz, Mississippi’s only Holocaust survivor, survived a fire at Beth Israel ...
Three days after someone set fire to their synagogue, the congregation of Beth Israel is doing something the attacker didn’t ...