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Young, Jewish and on the move in Germany – DW (English)

| August 28, 2021

They're Jewish, live in Germany and are part of the "Third Generation," the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors: Soprano Shai Terry, writer and feminist Laura Cazes, writer Dmitrij Kapitelman and Deborah Feldman, author of the global bestseller Unorthodox. The memoir tells the story of her upbringing in an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in New York City. Feldman became known to millions around the world after her book was made into an Emmy Award-winning Netflix series of the same name.

Fauci says new aim is to get Covid under control by spring but this depends on unvaccinated changing course – The Independent

| August 25, 2021

Dr Anthony Fauci has said the new aim is to get the pandemic under control by the spring, but that it will depend on the unvaccinated changing course and getting the jab.

Man accused of stabbing rabbi to be arraigned on nine indictments, including violating his Constitutional rights – Boston Herald

| August 25, 2021

The man accused of stabbing a rabbi last month outside a Jewish day school is expected to be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on Thursday after a grand jury returned nine indictments against him, prosecutors said. Khaled Awad, 24, is expected to be arraigned on armed assault with intent to murder, aggravated assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon (a knife), assault by means of a dangerous weapon (a gun), assault and battery for the purpose of intimidation resulting in bodily injury, violating an individuals constitutional rights, two counts of assault by means of a dangerous weapon and two counts of carrying a dangerous weapon on school grounds, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said. Awad previously was arraigned in Brighton District Court in connection with the July 1 attack on Rabbi Shlomo Noginski and sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for evaluation

The Vigil Director Keith Thomas: Prefer To Tell Stories of Human Experience Rooted in Authentic Cultural Perspectives – Sports Grind Entertainment

| August 25, 2021

Filmmaker Keith Thomas, the director of the horror hit The Vigil, says he believes in telling authentic and undiscovered stories of human experience from different cultural perspectives. With The Vigil, the first-time director presents a story that is steeped in ancient Jewish lore and demonology.It follows Yakov Ronen (Dave Davis), a financially struggling Hasidic Jew who recently left his community. He reluctantly accepts an offer from his former rabbi to take on the responsibility of an overnight shomer, the ritualistic practice of looking after a dead body.

Thanks To Government-Run Health Care, Alta Fixsler Is Fighting To Live – The Federalist

| August 25, 2021

Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and the left would have you believe that involving government in every nook and cranny of Americans lives will bring nothing but benefits for the public.

Rockland Democrats will convene with extent of covid mandates an issue – The Journal News

| August 25, 2021

Rockland County Democratic Committee members have traditionally been spliton policies and politics, but now add COVID vaccination and testing requirements for members who would attendits upcoming nominating convention.

Rockland Hasidic wedding won’t be held at community college amid COVID – The Journal News

| August 15, 2021

RAMAPO A Hasidic Jewish wedding expected to attract thousands of guests on Tuesday will not be held at the Rockland Community College fieldhouse. Concerns about spreading the deadly delta variant of the coronavirus led Rockland Health Commissioner Patricia Schnabel Ruppert to advise the college to cancel all rentals and large-scale events, officials said Thursday.

2020 Census: Kiryas Joel grew by 63% in 10 years and leads Orange County in population – Times Herald-Record

| August 15, 2021

KIRYAS JOEL - A community that began in the 1970s with about a dozen families moving upstate from Brooklyn has grown to become Orange County's most populated municipality with around 33,000 residents as of a year ago. Figures from the 2020 census released Thursday show that Kiryas Joel grew by a booming 63% in the last decade, pushing its population past that of the cities of Middletown and Newburgh and of towns much larger than the 1.5-square-mile Hasidic village. Its nearest population rival is Warwick, which is 105 square miles

South Blooming Grove amends zoning to allow new houses of worship and bigger homes – Times Herald-Record

| August 15, 2021

SOUTH BLOOMING GROVE Property owners soon will be able to apply to the Village Board for permits to open synagogues or turn parts of their homes into prayer spaces under a newly enacted zoning amendment. The new permit policy for houses of worship was one of a set of zoning changes Mayor George Kalaj and village trustees adopted on July 29 after holding a second public hearing on them. Other changes included doubling the footprint limit for new homes and increasing the allowed density for affordable housing

I used to judge ex-Orthodox Jews. Then I started listening to them. – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

| August 15, 2021

(JTA) Ten years ago, I sat shocked watching a new music video from one of my creative Jewish heroes, Matisyahu. Newly married and studying in yeshiva, my husband and I were trying to figure out how to uplift the art world in alignment with our Orthodox Torah ideals.


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