admin | April 19, 2020
Photo Credit: Flash90 {Originally posted to the JNS website} On Thursday night, as sundown falls on the holiday of Passover, Sephardic Jews everywhere will celebrate the centuries-old tradition of Mimouna. This is the night when Jews open their doors to their neighbors, offering tables lavish with sweets to usher in a year of sweetness and good fortune.
admin | April 19, 2020
On the first day of Passover, a group of police officers found a small synagogue in the Hasidic hub of Monsey, in Rockland County, N.Y., where about 50 men had gathered to pray. They broke up the service, issuing eight summonses. When Ed Day, Rocklands county executive since 2014, posted about the incident on Facebook, he got nearly 100 comments
admin | April 19, 2020
There is one indelible scene in Unorthodox that will stick in your memory long after youve finished watching the four-part miniseries. Esty, a 19-year-old Hasidic Jew, has escaped from the constrictions of married life and her ultra-conservative community in Williamsburg and fled to Berlin. There she befriends some music students
admin | April 19, 2020
Unorthodox might be one the best miniseries that Netflix has ever produced.
admin | April 19, 2020
CORRECTION: This story was updated at 5:18 p.m. on Saturday, April 18, 2020, to state that the Loceys are Messianic Jews. A previous version incorrectly stated Hasidic Jews
admin | April 19, 2020
- Advertisement - Unorthodox is a Netflix drama show that came out on Mar. 26 of this year
admin | April 19, 2020
Its the ninth question on the census, and for many Jewish respondents, its a surprising and sometimes unwelcome invitation to consider who exactly they are. For the first time, the U.S
admin | April 19, 2020
Some two thousand people are taking part in the "Black Flag" demonstration in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening, protesting against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu andanti-democratic measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak. The protest included speeches by prominent lawmakers from the center-left bloc, including former co-leaders of Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan
admin | April 19, 2020
SIR The letter by Maerton Davis entitled Seems more concerned about Palestinians than pandemic (April 11th) was full of inaccuracies as well of course as personal insults which are his forte. Strangely, Davis never then went on to talk about the pandemic threat himself. The UN has warned that Gaza as one of the most densely populated areas in the world and under Israeli occupation has a health system which was overstretched even before the disease emerged.
admin | April 19, 2020
Yom Hashoah is an annual day of remembrance for victims of the Holocaust observed by Jewish communities around the world.
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