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News Will Rabbi Who Welcomed Non-White Jews Be Booted From Synagogue — And Home?
When Rabbi Rigoberto Emmanuel Viñas took the helm of the aging Yonkers, New York, synagogue Lincoln Park Jewish Center 15 years ago, the hope was that the Cuban-born Orthodox Jew would breathe new life into the sleepy congregation. And over the following years the strategy seemed to work. Membership swelled, garnering acclaim from the media….
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Fast Forward Rabbi Says Synagogue Fired Him For Welcoming Nonwhite Members
The rabbi of a Modern Orthodox synagogue in the New York suburb of Yonkers is filing an anti-discrimination complaint against his own synagogue board, alleging that they punished him for welcoming nonwhite families to the synagogue. Rabbi Rigoberto Emmanuel Vinas filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Lincoln Park Jewish Center, the…
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Breaking News Famed Composer and Wife Die in House Fire
A famed British-Jewish composer and his wife were killed in a fire at their home in Yonkers, New York. Ronald Senator, an 89-year-old composer, and Miriam Brickman, his 81-year-old wife who was an accomplished concert pianist, died Thursday night from injuries sustained in a three-alarm house fire, CBS New York reported. Senator, who studied at…
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Opinion Shul Axes Pamela Geller, and 2 Others Invite Her
Her April 14 appearance at Great Neck Synagogue was canceled amid liberal protests, but anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller got the last laugh: The next morning, two other area synagogues invited her to speak the same day as the canceled speech. “Two courageous and magnificent Rabbis have asked me to speak on Sunday,” Geller wrote last…
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