” Rabbi Avraham Wolff exclaimed, with a big smile, as he walked into the Chabad synagogue in Odesa

the UAE for the Orthodox Jewish group Chabad, which seeks to support Jewish life for thousands of

Several hours after Odessa awoke to explosions Thursday morning, Avraham Wolff, the city’s chief rabbi, got a call from a nearly 90-year-old Holocaust survivor.... “ He cried and cried, and I just listened to him, ” Wolff said.... Wolff’s job now is to calm and feed congregants, many of whom are elderly and too scared to leave their home. Advertisement A man in Odessa, Ukraine, distributes food to members of the Jewish community on Thursday....

Nelvin C. Cepeda/ The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool, FILE In this April 30, 2019, file photo, John T. Earnest appears for his arraignment hearing in San Diego.... That just doesn't seem enough."" Lori was an amazing wife, mother, sister and friend," she said.... " You are an animal," she said to Earnest....

A Chicago man was being held without bond following his arrest for the alleged sexual assault of a patient inside a Park Ridge nursing and rehabilitation facility last week. According to Park Ridge police, a nurse at Avantara Park Ridge, 1601 N. Western Ave., reported that she entered the room of a female patient on the morning of July 9 and saw a male nursing assistant sexually assaulting the 62-year-old woman. The nursing assistant left the facility prior to the arrival of police, who were cal

Indiana University freshman Mykala Kaplan speaks about her recent experiences being Jewish on campus during a pro-Israel rally at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., Thursday, May 2, 2024.... Many felt unnerved by what they considered to be anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric and said they feared crossing campus, let alone counterprotesting. Now, groups in solidarity with Jewish students plan dozens of rallies in the coming days from coast to coast.... “ This type of event definitely hel

A man accused of killing one worshipper and wounding three others in a shooting spree inside a California synagogue about a month after setting fire to a nearby mosque pleaded guilty on Friday to federal hate crimes contained in a 113-count indictment. Under the terms of his plea agreement with federal prosecutors, attorneys for John T. Earnest and the government will jointly recommend that he receive a life term in prison when he is sentenced on Dec.... 28, the U.S. Department of Justice said

The Jewish group tried to ignore them but they became more intimidating, the Jewish Chronicle reported.... Showing the sole of your shoe has long been an insult in Arab culture.... However, the identity of the men in the video remains unknown. Rabbi Shneor said it was “ not something you expect to see in the middle of London....

At night, the park attracts a different crowd.On the night of April 5, a group of teenagers was hanging around in the park.... Under the Young Offenders Act, she cannot be identified.“ One of us had the idea to go write on the wall, and I did it, ” she said in a recent interview.... She pulled out a purple eye shadow from her bag, and used her finger to paint the messages. Robert Rames, whose wife, Courtney Peck, was the first to see the graffiti the next morning, struggles with the idea that

The events in Sri Lanka today have shocked many around the world. An Easter day attack on three churches and an equal number of hotels, in such coordinated fashion, sounds surreal, even bizarre.