Tajikistan’s government has begun demolishing the Central Asian nation’s only synagogue, offering in exchange a plot of land far from where most Jewish community members live.
The Palestinian representative to Washington’s job just got a little harder with Hamas’ election victory. Afif Safieh, however, says much of the responsibility rests with Israel and the United States.
The Jewish Learning Institute, an adult education project of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, has been growing by leaps and bounds since it opened seven years ago.