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10 hours ago · Joel and Tova’s guidance and support have created a close-knit, multi-generational family rooted in shared values and connection to Israel. Reflecting on her children’s upbringing, Tova shared ...
- Walter Jacob, Pittsburgh rabbi who helped revive Reform ...
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Rabbi Walter Jacob, who 60 years after he...
- Walter Jacob, Pittsburgh rabbi who helped revive Reform ...
5 days ago · Jacob died on Sunday, Oct. 20, at the age of 94. His death brings to a close one of the most admired and globally significant rabbinic careers in the history of this region. Jacob was born in Augsburg, Germany, on Purim day 1930. He came from a German rabbinic lineage stretching back 15 generations, into the 1600s.
3 days ago · PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Rabbi Walter Jacob, who 60 years after he left Germany as a refugee returned to help revive its Liberal Jewish community, died October 20 at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 94.
4 days ago · The charismatic Rebbe, who died in 1994, is the subject of Ezra Glinter’s ‘Jewish Lives’ biography
4 days ago · A few years before the Holocaust, the Jewish population of the Soviet Union (excluding Western Ukraine and the Baltic states that were not part of the Soviet Union then) stood at over 5 million, most of whom were Ashkenazic as opposed to Sephardic, with some Karaite minorities.
3 days ago · THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited the site of a Holocaust museum being built in Greece on Tuesday as he began a three-day state visit. Steinmeier visited the site near an old railway station in Thessaloniki, from where tens of thousands of Jews were transported to Nazi concentration camps during the World War II German occupation of Greece.
5 days ago · PITTSBURGH — Rabbi Seth Adelson was leading a Shabbat morning service at Beth Shalom Synagogue six years ago, about half a mile from where a gunman opened fire on a congregation at Tree of Life...
