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News channel or source: https://www.wamc.org/2025-12-24/despite-vatican-israel-tensions-catholics-and-jews-work-to-build-trust-in-haifa
Published on: Tuesday 23 December 2025
HAIFA, Israel — St. Louis the King Cathedral is festooned with string lights for the annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. The multitude pressed between the alabaster-like walls of the churchyard ...
News Israel » Haifa » Religion: Holiness in Haifa: The little shul that shines a spotlight on Orthodoxy
News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/society-culture-and-history/religion-and-spirituality/holiness-in-haifa-the-little-shul-that-shines-a-spotlight-on-orthodoxy/ar-AA1z8Yt4
Published on: Saturday 15 February 2025
When the beit midrash (“study hall”) of Haifa’s Avot U’Banim synagogue was struck by a Hezbollah missile around 8 p.m. on Saturday night, November 16, 2023, Shlomo Gerst, the shul’s chairman, took it ...