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‘The Rabbi of Timbuktu’ to speak at Canton synagogue – Wicked Local Randolph

| September 27, 2020

Professor William Miles, who wrote The Rabbi of Timbuktu, will speak at an event held by Cantons Bnai Tikvah Adult Education at 8 p.m. Oct. 16 via Zoom

How this Birmingham synagogue reinvented its New Year celebration + takeaways for other religious holidays anywhere – Bham Now

| September 27, 2020

Author Sharron Mendel Swain - September 24, 2020September 24, 2020A congregant blew the shofar at a safe distance from the crowd. Photo via Audrey Nicole Photography Mid-March, most religious organizations moved online.

Offline and in synagogue: How Orthodox Jews learned about RBG’s death – thejewishchronicle.net

| September 27, 2020

(JTA) Shlomo Zuckier was walking out of his in-laws house Saturday morning to go to outdoor synagogue services when he saw the newspaper on the ground. Through the plastic bag, he could read the headline with the biggest story of the previous evening: Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. Most Jews would have heard the news on Friday evening, not long after the 87-year-old Supreme Court justice passed away of complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Yom Kippur synagogue closure will be ineffective among haredim – Analysis – The Jerusalem Post

| September 27, 2020

One of the principal battles at present within the government over what new restrictions to impose due to the massive spike in COVID-19 infections is whether or not to close synagogues on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. But regardless of whatever decision is taken, it is highly unlikely that any order to shutter synagogues over Yom Kippur will be effective in the ultra-Orthodox community.

Fundraising in a Pandemic: Metro Detroit Synagogues and Organizations Adjust to an Unusual Year Detroit Jewish News – The Jewish News

| September 27, 2020

At some point during the solemn Kol Nidre service, Dr. Mark S. Roth, president of Congregation Bnai Moshe, will step up to his designated microphone in a practically empty sanctuary to deliver the synagogues annual fundraising appeal

Nontraditional Sweets to Break the Fast – Jewish Exponent

| September 27, 2020

Photo by Keri WhiteIn many Sephardic cultures, the first bite to break the fast is traditionally something sweet a piece of cake, dried fruit, sugared nuts, a spoonful of jam or a milky, sweet drink made from an infusion of rosewater and toasted seeds. Some Ashkenazi Jews serve zimsterne, a star-shaped spice cookie, to start their break-fast. Todays column takes that theme and varies it a bit, featuring three different cookie recipes for your Yom Kippur buffet: white chocolate coconut raspberry jam cookies, flourless chocolate chocolate chip cookies and pecan snowball cookies

LISTEN: Israeli band Yamma has millions grooving to ancient Hebrew poetry – The Times of Israel

| September 27, 2020

Its not every day that President Reuven Rivlin posts a music video to his social media accounts.

The problem of the EUs golden passports – The Economist

| September 27, 2020

Sep 26th 2020 AN EU PASSPORT is one of the most desirable documents on the planet. Its bearer can live and work in 27 different countries, all of them prosperous and peaceful. Many have excellent food, too.

Facebook critics take on its Oversight Board – Axios

| September 27, 2020

A group of high-profile Facebook critics on Friday announced the launch of what they are calling the "Real Facebook Oversight Board," an effort that aims to counter an independent board established by Facebook last year to oversee its decisions on content moderation. Why it matters: The opposing effort represents how political the fight between Facebook and its critics has become in the lead-up to the presidential election

Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ginsburg – The Jewish News of Northern California

| September 27, 2020

President Donald Trumps pick to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court is Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic and conservative midwestern judge who commentators compare to the late justice Antonin Scalia. Barrett, nominated Saturday, lives in Indiana and is a judge on the Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, but has a spare political record.


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