Touro Synagogue, the nation's oldest synagogue, has been closed to tours by its New York-based landlord, Congregation Shearith Israel. The Touro Synagogue Foundation, which has conducted tours for ...

Close to Russian troops from the Kaliningrad enclave, the residents of Kybartai are reliving the era of Soviet occupation, when this small Lithuanian town was a hotspot of dissidence.

In its lawsuit filed May 1, Congregation Shearith Israel says CJI was required to use two trust funds, created by brothers Abraham and Judah Touro in the 1800s, for upkeep of the synagogue and ...

The court ruled a New York congregation can evict Congregation Jeshuat Israel, which has worshiped at Touro Synagogue for more than a century NEWPORT, R.I. — The Rhode Island Supreme Court has ...

After an exhaustive search that included input from the entire congregation, Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue in Wheeling has selected Rabbi Schachar Orenstein as its new rabbi.

New Synagogue is housed in the penthouse suite of the Palm Beach Hotel, 235 Sunrise Ave. "It was our vision to ... create a space that resonated deeply with our American and our Jewish values ...

The political, socioeconomic, and religious factors driving the radicalization of Central Asian and Caucasian Muslims in Russia are clearly domestic, rather than influenced by the West.

Eighty-six years after the Nazis set the Great Synagogue of Kaliningrad ablaze, 100 Russian shluchim gathered in the Russian enclave between Lithuania and Poland for a weekend of unity and inspiration ...

The leadership of (Congregation Beth Shalom) is very grateful to the Oak Park Police for their quick response to the scene." More: Michigan Jews travel to Israel amid crisis to comfort, show support.

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Train passengers traveling between Moscow and Kaliningrad, Russia’s militarized exclave, are confronted with the carnage Russia is inflicting on Ukraine every time they ...

The transfer of valuable, advanced air defense systems from Kaliningrad follows an "uptick" in losses of Moscow's SA-21 system around late October, the ministry wrote in its update.

Fred Flatow was born Siegfried Friedel Ernst Flatow on May 16, 1928, in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany (present day: Kaliningrad, Russia). Manfred, Fred’s older brother, was born in 1925. His ...