A group of volunteers at a Georgetown synagogue helped stop an attack on worshipers over the weekend. These were not ordinary volunteers. Each one was trained b ...

ALBANY, N.Y., Aug. 19. The (Grand Lodge of the ancient Jewish Order Kesher Shel Barzel met here to-day. Delegates are present from New-York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and other States.

Brent Wood, 34, of Ohio, is accused of spraying a noxious substances at congregants of the Kesher Israel Congregation in Georgetown while shouting, "Gas the Jews!" Skip Navigation.

MONTEFIORE HOME, dedicated in June 1882 as the Sir Moses Montefiore Kesher Shel Barzel Home for the Aged and Infirm Israelites, was founded by the Jewish fraternal order Kesher Shel Barzel.The ...

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