admin | September 29, 2020
FAIRFIELD What do Louisville, Kentucky; Elche, Spain; Patras, Greece; and Fairfield, California have in common? Well, right off the bat, they are each at 38.2 degrees latitude on the globe, which puts all of them on the map, so to speak, for this years Visions of the Wild Film and Arts Festival, produced for the past seven years by the U.S
admin | 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
admin | 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.
admin | 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.
admin | 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.
admin | 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
admin | 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
admin | September 27, 2020
Its not every day that President Reuven Rivlin posts a music video to his social media accounts.
admin | 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.
admin | 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
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