The historic Ben Ezra synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, which recently underwent renovation, has created tension between Egypt's small Jewish community and the government.

The article discusses the Vilna Shul, the last standing synagogue from the immigrant Jewish communities in Boston.

Elijah Schulman, a young bar mitzvah boy from Bethesda, MD, is planning to hold his bar mitzvah at a struggling synagogue, Mishkan Israel, in Selma, Ala., as a way to help the synagogue in need.