August 2017
- The Holocaust Torah that survived a Mississippi synagogue fire was brought there by the state’s only survivorWhen firefighters cleared Beth Israel Synagogue after an arson attack this month, the library floor was slick with water and ash. Prayer books lay swollen and blackened. Smoke clung to the sanctuary walls. Two Torah scrolls burned. A third Torah did not. That Torah, displayed for decades in a glass case near the front of... […]
- This California synagogue was just vandalized with anti-Zionist graffiti, one year after being destroyed by wildfire(JTA) — The remains of a synagogue in southern California destroyed in last January’s Eaton wildfire were vandalized over the weekend with anti-Zionist messages. The rabbi of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center and the Anti-Defamation League decried the vandalism as antisemitic. “The vandalism of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center is antisemitism — full... […]