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A massive wedding for the son of a Hasidic grand rabbi took place in Brooklyn on Monday night amid the coronavirus pandemic but law enforcement authorities said the festivities were all legal. Videos of the event posted on Twitter and circulating in the Jewish Orthodox community showed hundreds of maskless men and boys packed inside Congregation Shaarei Zion of Bobov in Borough Park. The wedding ceremony itself took place in the synagogues parking lot and photos provided to The Postshowed a mass of black-clad guests standing shoulder to shoulder in front of the chuppah before the celebrations moved inside the temple
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admin | January 20, 2021
Synagogues in Washington, DC, are receiving a fake letter purported to be signed by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris warning them to close or they will go to prison.Myself and President Joe Biden, will shut down your Synagogue of worship and place heavy fines upon your religious institution, said the letter, according to an alert distributed Tuesday to Jewish institutions by Secure Community Network, the national Jewish group that advises institutions on security. We will be in control in two weeks and we will shut you down, says the letter, which has a postmark from Albany, New York. This is your fair warning from me
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admin | January 20, 2021
The band made a quick splash but within a few years had dissolved, leaving only two albums from its heyday, New York Dolls (1973) and the prophetically titled Too Much Too Soon (1974, the title borrowed from the autobiography of the actress Diana Barrymore). It produced no radio-friendly hits, but its fame grew after the fact. As Mr
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admin | January 20, 2021
Jon Ossoff, the newly elected U.S. senator from Georgia, will be sworn in Jan. 20 using a Hebrew Bible that belonged to Rabbi Jacob M
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admin | January 20, 2021
Few people can place much less pronounce the name Lothrop Stoddard. During his 1920s heyday, however, Stoddards writings transformed the Ku Klux Klan and popularized the Nordic movement for global white supremacy.
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admin | January 20, 2021
A man has been arrested after a synagogue in Montreal was vandalized on Wednesday. Multiple swastikas were spray-painted on the front doors of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. The 16-year-old synagogue has been closed due to the coronavirus pandemic
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admin | January 20, 2021
Medieval timesmost often called the Middle Agesrefers to a period of about 1000 years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the onset of the Renaissance in Europe. The end of the iconic medieval era itself occurred over 500 years ago
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admin | January 20, 2021
(JTA) Synagogues in Washington, D.C., are receiving a fake letter purported to be signed by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris warning them to close or they will go to prison. Myself and President Joe Biden, will shut down your Synagogue of worship and place heavy fines upon your religious institution, said the letter, according to an alert distributed Tuesday to Jewish institutions by Secure Community Network, the national Jewish group that advises institutions on security
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admin | January 20, 2021
Children standing in front of an anti-German sign posted in Edison Park, Chicago, 1917.
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admin | January 20, 2021
When the Yiddish newspaper Der Blatt set out to explain how a massive wedding for the grandson of the Satmar grand rabbi took place despite pandemic limits on gatherings, it waited until after the event to reveal all the details. Another Orthodox news site took a different approach this week: JDN, an Israeli site, published an article before a large wedding about the secrecy involved in its planning, then replaced the article with another version that said the affair would be small and in keeping with COVID rules
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