A Delaware rabbi blessed President-elect Joseph R. Biden and his wife before they left the state Tuesday night by comparing him to Moses and President Trump to the "cruel Pharaoh."
Napa’s CrossWalk Community Church announces closure through Wednesday after reported threat [Napa Valley Register, Calif.]
Jan. 18
Howard Yune
The decision to close the church campus off First Street, which was announced by email to CrossWalk members Saturday, resulted from a notice issued by the Evergreen Association of American Baptist Churches to member congregations, Shaw said in an email.
A message from the Rev. Douglas Avilesbernal, executive minister of the Evergreen Association based in Kent, Washington, described news of “concerning threats against liberal/progressive churches in the next week,” with special concern about events on Jan. 17 and 20.
“So far the advice is to spend as little time as possible at your church buildings during this possibly dangerous season,” wrote Avilesbernal. “If you have alarms please make sure they are active. If you have cameras check their memory cards and if you do not, it probably is a good idea to invest in some.
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Max Rodrigues Garcia
Max Rodrigues Garcia
Our father, Max Rodrigues Garcia, came to the United States with only hopes and dreams after surviving nearly three years as a prisoner within the Holocaust. He ultimately lived the “American Dream” and with our mother, Pat (1927-2002), they passed those hopes and dreams to us, David (1957), Tania (1960) and Michelle (1961).
Max was born in Amsterdam, June 28, 1924. He never again saw his parents, Elias and Rosetta, nor his sister Sippora, after they were murdered in 1942 and 1943. He was a prisoner of four different German concentration camps, including 18 months in Auschwitz as well as two death marches. When he was liberated by the 3rd Cavalry (U.S. Army) from a concentration camp, Ebensee, in the Austrian Alps on May 6, 1945, he was close to death but he found the strength to attach him
Andrew Goldstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH â Imagine wanting to complete an important task but not having the ability to do it because of personal limitations when, unexpectedly, a friend offers assistance.
But why would that person volunteer to help?
Because that s what friends do. That s What Friends Do is also the title of a recently published children s book by Cantor Steven Stoehr that aims to instill the importance of being a helpful and caring friend in addition to accepting those who are different in the wake of the Oct. 27, 2018, massacre at Tree of Life synagogue. It wasn t so much that I wanted to teach kids about the sad massacre in Pittsburgh and the pain of that, Stoehr said in a phone interview. I wanted to take the necessary message of that day and try to spread tolerance and peacefulness.