Carlos Gouvêa was arrested on Oct. 1 and released on $500 bail. Three charges were dismissed on Nov. 13 and he paid nearly $400 in restitution. After his arrest by ICE, he opted to self-deport. U.S.

Carlos Portugal Gouvêa, a former visiting law professor at Harvard Law School, was arrested on Oct. 1 after firing a BB/pellet gun near the Temple Beth Zion during its late Kol Nidre service. Carlos ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — On Kol Nidre, we sing for our lives. At the minyan where I pray, as a lay “shaliach tzibur,” or service leader, I was asked to lead the singing this year, and I was starting to ...

(RNS) — Rabbi Arthur Waskow, an iconic social justice activist considered the forefather of postwar American Jewish progressivism, died Monday (Oct. 20), one week after celebrating his 92nd birthday.

WASHINGTON — The Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus (MLJC), denounces the decision of the Student Government Association (SGA) at the University of Maryland to hold a vote on a resolution calling on ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - As dusk settled over the Shaker Lakes Nature Center on Wednesday evening, the quiet of the surrounding woods framed a gathering inside the center’s main building, where one ...

One sundown last week, Kol Nidre, the mournful prayer-hymn in which good Jews ask God to release them from unfulfilled vows, throbbed in countless synagogues. It was the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish faith, is being celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Yom Kippur is the day of atonement following the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. It involves followers of the ...

The San Diego Police Department said its officers would be on heightened alert against any potential threats to the Jewish community starting Wednesday, when Yom Kippur begins at sundown. "As always, ...

Yom Kippur begins at sundown Wednesday, with observant Jews fasting and seeking forgiveness for their sins, with law enforcement being on their customary heightened alert against possible threats to ...

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