admin | August 24, 2020
An uptick in coronavirus cases in Borough Park has been linked in part to a large wedding attended by members of Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox community, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday.
admin | August 24, 2020
(Reuters) - India reported a record daily jump of coronavirus infections on Saturday, bringing the total of cases near 3 million and piling pressure on authorities to curb huge gatherings as a major religious festival began. DEATHS AND INFECTIONS * For an interactive graphic tracking the global spread, click: https://tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7 * For a U.S.-focused tracker with state-by-state and county map, click: https://tmsnrt.rs/2w7hX9T EUROPE * Around 1,500 volunteers equipped with face masks, hand disinfectant and tracking gadgets attended an indoor concert in Germany as part of a study to simulate how the coronavirus spreads in large gatherings. * Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged people to act on health advice after official data showed daily COVID-19 infections had risen to a record level
admin | August 24, 2020
Global coronavirus deaths surged past 800,000 people on Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University data, which came less than 24 hours after the World Health Organization said it hoped the pandemic would last for less than two years. Cases took an upward turn in eastern European countries Saturday as Ukraine recorded 2,328 new cases and 37 deaths between Friday and Saturday, figures from the national council of security and defense showed.
admin | August 24, 2020
Jewish Crown Heights residents remember microscopic details about the riots of 1991 29 years ago, on Wednesday. They recall the acronyms used to differentiate between the different types of ambulances that served the victims of the car crash that started it all. They remember the ins and outs of the court cases for one of the killers of Yankel Rosenbaum
admin | August 24, 2020
A version of this story about Shira Haas first appeared in the Emmy Hot List issue of TheWraps Emmy magazine. Shira Haas is one of the discoveries of this years Emmy season. The petite 25-year-old Israeli was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Unorthodox, a Netflix limited series loosely based on the Deborah Feldman memoir about a young woman who runs away from her husband and family in the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in New York.
admin | August 24, 2020
(JTA) Wanna join Daveed Diggs, Idina Menzel and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for High Holy Days worship? The Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C., has a way virtually. The synagogue/arts and entertainment center, which has hosted dozens of Jewish celebrities in the past 15 years, has launched its You In A Pew fundraiser in which members and others can pay $36 to have a photo of themselves placed next to a cardboard cutout of one of the famous folks, like the trio noted above.
admin | August 24, 2020
With school about to start in a week, not everyone is so confident in the plan to open them that was laid out by the education and health ministries, with the support of coronavirus commissioner Prof. Ronni Gamzu. At the same time, with the High Holy Days only weeks away, there is still no agreement about how synagogues will operate.Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and Education Minister Yoav Gallant stressed in a statement on Monday that the school year will open as planned on September 1.
admin | August 24, 2020
When Rabbi Susan Talve heard that Patricia and Mark McCloskey would be among the speakers addressing the Republican National Convention, she decided she could no longer stay quiet. Its so upsetting that they have a national audience, Talve said. Its upsetting we make heroes out of people who hate
admin | August 24, 2020
Currently, the Jews in the UAE - consisting of around 200 families - pray at a synagogue housed in a Bur Dubai villa. The synagogue in Abu Dhabi, which is expected to be completed in 2022, will be a place where residents and tourists can understand religious tolerance and humanitarian values, the chief rabbi of the Jewish community in the UAE has said. The Abrahamic Family House, which will come up on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, will have a mosque, a church and a synagogue - bringing three major faiths together.
admin | August 24, 2020
Members of the historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, D.C., will be able to sit next to Jewish celebrities, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, during High Holidays services next month
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