admin | March 24, 2020
Photo: Reuven Blau /THE CITY Sign up for THE CITY Scoop, our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Early Tuesday morning, roughly 70 people gathered in a Brooklyn synagogue for a morning shachris prayer service
admin | March 24, 2020
A vicious rumor has been making the rounds: Hasidim are neglecting to take the coronavirus pandemic seriously because we are selfish. But as someone born and bred in the Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who now lives in Jerusalem and writes for Yiddish publications, I can say thats wrong.
admin | March 24, 2020
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in New York City more than doubled in just one day, reaching 1,871 on Wednesday. As the outbreak continues to spiral, officials continue to pile on more social restrictions in hopes of slowing the spread. Businesses will now be ordered to keep half their employees at home, Gov
admin | March 24, 2020
When the rabbis of New Jerseys suburban Bergen County took the bold step of shutting down almost all facets of communal Jewish life last week, they left the doors of one institution open: the womens mikvah, or ritual bath.That pattern has been repeated in place after place this week as the Jewish world has responded to the coronavirus epidemic.
admin | March 24, 2020
(JTA) After a week in which the headlines seemed to grow more grim by the day, its worth remembering that even as cities go dark across the globe, the world continues to turn. Babies are born, people are getting married, and thankfully the sun still rises every morning. As we wind down a work week unlike any weve experienced before, here are three Jewish stories of hope and joy to take you into the weekend.
admin | March 24, 2020
On Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he would ban all non-essential gatherings in an executive order, the latest step in the states increasingly stringent and sweeping rules to enforce social distancing and limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. This is not life as usual and accept it and realize it and deal with it, he said. But when his office released guidance on the ban, along with the list of essential businesses that would be allowed to keep their doors open after Sunday, it didnt clear up a key question for observant Jews: Does the ban on gatherings extend to religious prayer services?
admin | March 23, 2020
There were glimpses of how much could be at stake. A month before the coronavirus outbreak led to orders that tens of millions of Americans largely stay at home, white supremacists had urged each other to spread the virus by filling spray bottles with saliva, spitting on elevator buttons and other ways, intelligence officials said.
admin | March 23, 2020
The world is panicking and locking down in response to a virus. Some are asking, is God angry with mankind?
admin | March 23, 2020
Pete Gregson, Chair ofLabour Against Zionist Islamophobic Racism(LAZIR), writes: Dear Ken, Ive just read what youve been saying about me and I think its hurtful and unfair. You have declared me an anti-Semite and a mysoginist and I believe you have no grounds to do so. The determination of Zionists to obliterate those who campaign against their fraudulent and politicised definition of anti-Semitism knows no bounds.
admin | March 23, 2020
NEW YORK (JTA) One of Avi Webbs favorite times of the week is Sunday morning, when he takes his children to morning prayers at his synagogue and stays for a lesson on Hasidic thought.
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