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Our View: Young people need to hear messages countering hatred
5+ hour, 51+ min ago (136+ words) Our View: Young people need to hear messages countering hatred'Eagle-Tribune "I tell this story almost as a warning." When Kati Preston talks, we all need to listen. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please…...
FBI: Synagogue attack a 'targeted act of violence against the Jewish community"
1+ week, 6+ day ago (193+ words) FBI: Synagogue attack a 'targeted act of violence against the Jewish community'Eagle-Tribune WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. " An attacker armed with a rifle was fatally shot after ramming his vehicle into one of the nation's largest Reform synagogues Thursday in what federal…...
Living in America today, I am haunted by my parents’ Holocaust experience
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (183+ words) Living in America today, I am haunted by my parents" Holocaust experience'Eagle-Tribune Cold Weather Advisory from SAT 6:00 PM EST until SUN 1:00 PM EST My parents were Holocaust survivors. They lost their parents, grandparents and siblings to its horrors. After coming…...
A Grand Menorah Lighting: Crowd celebrates Hanukkah in The Park
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (411+ words) ANDOVER " The Chabad Lubavitch Jewish Center of Merrimack Valley and Anshe Sholom Chabad of Greater Haverhill held the annual Grand Menorah Lighting at The Park, 36 Bartlet St., on Monday to celebrate Hanukkah. Chabad Lubavitch of Merrimack Valley hosted a Menorah…...
Sacred items find new home in North Andover synagogue
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (436+ words) Rabbi Idan Irelander unveils the new names added to Congregation Ahavat Olam's memorial wall, right, alongside memorial plaques from Congregation Ansha Sholum, left, during the "L'dor V'dor: From Generation to Generation " A Legacy in Motion" event held at the North…...
Photos of Hasidic Jewish rabbis praying at resting place of 'the Rebbe' in New York
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (437+ words) NEW YORK (AP) " Hasidic rabbis attended the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries and gathered in prayer Friday in the Queens borough of New York City at the resting place of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He was known as "the…...
Their View: Africa offers reminder of fragility of religious freedoms
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (221+ words) As Christianity declines in the West, the faith is flourishing in sub-Saharan Africa, which is seeing the fastest growth in Christianity the world over. By 2060, more than 4 in 10 Christians worldwide ... As Christianity declines in the West, the faith is flourishing…...