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Zachary Thacher often spends Friday nights at home in his New York City apartment, but not because he's skipping out on Sabbath-eve prayer services. Thacher, 32, is the founder of Kol haKfar, an independent Jewish community that, like a growing number of similar groups around the country, meets in the homes of community participants. Thacher says he started his group--which now has a Friday-eve attendance of about 25--because "having a meaningful, personal service just didn't seem possible in the harsh lighting and monotonous, institutional vibe of a synagogue...
...communities thriving in cities across the U.S. are run by volunteers--with a healthy representation in their 20s and 30s--and offer religious services organized almost exclusively by e-mail. The groups tend to avoid denominational classification. At Kol haKfar, for instance, some participants use Orthodox prayer books while others follow along using more liberal Reconstructionist texts...
...attack until they ran out of ammunition. The militias then entered the premises and trashed it, torching everything inside. They returned in the evening with explosives and leveled the building. "Now there isn't a mosque anywhere near us, so we haven't heard the call for prayer for two whole days," said Saad. "It feels like something fundamental is missing from our lives...
...real estate in the middle of Harvard Yard should either serve a cross-section of the campus population or that meet specific needs of specific groups. Student counselling services, a central resource for the College’s gay and lesbian students, a women’s center, and prayer space all fit this criterion. So does storage for the HRO’s unwieldy string instruments, and enlarged office space for the Harvard Foundation, which administers some 55 ethnic and cultural organizations on this campus. There isn’t really any reason why other groups, for whom...
...reality, however, a 10,000 square foot Thayer Hall common room isn’t quite what the College has in mind. Rather, the current plans call for, in addition to some new JCR-like freshman space, expanded offices for the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, prayer space for the Harvard Islamic Society and Dharma, and a new Harvard College women’s center. The BGLTSA resource center (not the organization itself) and college-wide counselling groups will keep their central locations, as will the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), whose string basses just don?...