The musician Shulem on being the first artist raised Hasidic to sign with a major record label – JTA News
admin | April 24, 2020
(JTA) Shulem Lemmers singing career took a wildly positive turn over the past year.
Shulem on being the first Hasidic musician to sign with major record label – The Jerusalem Post
admin | April 24, 2020
Shulem Lemmers singing career took a wildly positive turn over the past year. He went on a major stadium and arena tour, playing to packed houses at Fenway Park in Boston, Citi Field in New York and Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City.
Netflix’s Unorthodox and The English Game share a similar theme – The Age
admin | April 24, 2020
You might think Unorthodox and The English Game have nothing in common, apart from the fact both are on Netflix. And at one level youd be right: the former is about a young woman in a Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in more or less the present day; the latter is about a Scottish soccer player in the north of England in the early 1880s
Litzman reportedly offers to leave Health Ministry – The Australian Jewish News
admin | April 24, 2020
ISRAELI Health Minister Yaakov Litzman has reportedly offered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to leave the Health Ministry and take up the Housing portfolio instead. Channel 12 reported on Thursday that Litzman had told Netanyahu of various unspecified considerations for the move, which he asserted was not tied to recent public criticism of his handling of the coronavirus crisis. The report said Litzman had apparently been instructed by Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, the head of the Gur Hasidic sect, to change ministries.
Decades Before Zoom, The Rebbe Used Interactive Video to Connect the World – In 1989, the Chanukah Live program showed that satellite technology can…
admin | April 24, 2020
Under the pressure of social distancing and social isolation, we are seeing the awakening of a renewed social consciousness. Not only have our interactions with others not declined, but they have become more meaningful, more precious, more intentional, more purposeful. People meet and greet, apparently with even greater frequency than ever, not in the flesh, but in the instantaneous ether of cyberspace.
Orthodox Jews are donating plasma by the thousands to fight Covid-19 – Forward
admin | April 22, 2020
Well before the rest of the world was talking about blood plasma and its use in fighting coronavirus, Dr. Shmuel Shoham knew all about it and where he could probably get a lot of it. By early March, Shoham, an expert on infectious diseases in transplant patients at Johns Hopkins University, had already realized that convalescent plasma antibodies spun out of the blood of people who had Covid-19 could be a key therapy in fighting the disease
‘Unorthodox’ overlooked the humanity of my old Satmar community – Jewish News
admin | April 22, 2020
The recent Netflix show Unorthodox has brought my former community, Satmar, into the limelight.
Monsey machete attack: Grafton Thomas found unfit for trial on attempted murder, hate charges – Lohud
admin | April 22, 2020
The funeral of Josef Neumann at Viznitz Cemetery in Spring Valley March 30, 2020. Neumann, 72, died from his injuries suffered in Monsey Hanukkah machete attack
Orthodox Jewish Communities in Bklyn See Frightening Rise in COVID-19 Deaths – The Jewish Voice
admin | April 22, 2020
By: Ray Weiler In this new age of sheltering at home, more New Yorkers than ever are staying in their homes.
Inside the Homes of Brooklyns Hasidic Community, the Death Toll Rises – Brooklyn Reader
admin | April 20, 2020
The Hasidic community in Brooklyns neighborhood of Kensington have seen a sharp rise in at-home fatalities amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
