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COURTESY OF CONGREGATION BETH JACOB PLYMOUTH — Congregation Beth Jacob has announced the coming retirement of Rabbi Lawrence Silverman after 44 years of service to the Plymouth area Jewish community.  He will be leaving his position as Rabbi at the end of July 2021. He and his wife, Meredith, will continue to reside in Plymouth. Silverman has been a member of the Plymouth Area Interfaith Clergy Alliance for many years. He is held in high esteem by both fellow clergy and members of their con...

Rabbi David Steinhardt of Boca Raton, Fla., confessed that he had never dealt with anything remotely comparable: in the last four months, five congregants or their close relatives have died by suicide. All were single men aged 20 to 60. In contrast, during his nearly 38 years in the rabbinate, Steinhardt – spiritual leader of the 1,200-unit B’nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, Fla. – said he had dealt with a total of four suicides. Convinced that these latest suicides were related to C...

Rabbi H. David Teitelbaum, revered as much for his commitment to his congregants and the Bay Area Jewish community as for his passionate social activism on national and international stages, died at age 94 on Monday. The next day, about 150 people took part in a memorial service on Zoom in which the native San Franciscan was remembered for his participation in the U.S. civil rights movement, his advocacy on behalf of Soviet Jews and his love for Israel — but, above all, for his kindness and c...

Max Silver, an 18-year-old at the University of Michigan who chose to sit out this semester at home in Los Altos, had been looking for a volunteer opportunity to stay busy. He checked out Vax Volunteers after he heard about it from his mom. “I’d searched online sporadically but couldn’t find anything I wanted to do that was related to Covid-19,” Silver said. “The Vax Volunteers site is easy to maneuver, so I filled out some of the registration forms for local sites, and I’m waiting ...

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Atlanta Jewish Times Can Biden’s Administration Bridge the Political Divide? Based on a random sampling of opinion, the 46th president may find it challenging to satisfy a politically divided country. By Dave Schechter January 21, 2021, 1:45 pm Edit 13 shares Dave Schechter is a veteran journalist whose career includes writing and producing reports from Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East. US President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential...

Rabbi Ilan Feldman has gone on the offensive against US Senate candidate Raphael Warnock without Atlanta media examining his own anti-Palestinian connections and baggage. (via YouTube) Over the last few weeks, Reverend Raphael Warnock, the Democratic candidate for one of Georgia’s US Senate seats, has abandoned his support for Palestinian rights. I have painstakinglydocumented his collapse under Israel lobby pressure. But what do we know about those pressuring him? So far, we know that follo...