admin | March 30, 2020
Rabbi Mordechai Gurary, a prominent Torah scholar who served as the rabbi of the Chevra Shas synagogue in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., for many decades, passed away on March 28 after being infected with the coronavirus. He was 84 years old.
admin | March 28, 2020
The novel coronavirus has put life on hold for many around the world, but it didnt stop a family in Omaha from reaching a huge milestone Friday. With help from an Omaha synagogue and a few friends, an Iraqi refugee family moved into a west Omaha apartment
admin | March 28, 2020
With only two independent Judaica stores remaining in the Bay Area, synagogue and JCC gift shops are filling a growing need not only for tangible items, but for community, too. Yves Jewelry & Judaica in Berkeley closed earlier this year, citing lackluster sales, leaving Dayenu (located at the JCC of San Francisco) and Afikomen (Berkeley) as the only two remaining independent stores selling ritual and other Jewish objects. Synagogue gift shops have been able to weather challenges like the proliferation of big-box stores and the convenience of internet shopping with the help of institutional support.
admin | March 28, 2020
It was sad but also a relief: This family hosted their sons bar mitzvah over Zoom Batya Grundland, a family doctor, and her husband, Mark Rottmann, a high-school science and engineering teacher, live in Toronto with their children Mattan, 13, Benjamin, 10, and Amitai, five. The family had been planning Mattans bar mitzvah for over two years, and the two-day event was set for last weekend.
admin | March 28, 2020
Jewish leaders are concerned that messages about the risks of Covid-19, and the need to isolate and keep social distance, are not reaching pockets of the ultra-Orthodox community who rarely engage with the media and have limited access to the internet.
admin | March 28, 2020
The much-loved rabbi of Edgware and Hendon Reform synagogue has died suddenly from coronavirus. Rabbi Neil Kraft, who wasborn and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, spent 17 years leading the community and was due to retire in a matter of weeks. He appeared unwell in shul last weekend after conducting part of the Shabbat service via a live stream.
admin | March 26, 2020
Shortly after California ordered its citizens to remain at home and closed many businesses, Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi, of Congregation Chevra Thilim in San Francisco, needed to tend to the most sobering part of his vocation: He had to conduct a funeral. An elderly woman in his synagoguethe oldest Orthodox congregation in the cityhad recently died from a stroke and in keeping with Jewish custom that burial should occur within the first few days, Rabbi Zarchi helped lay her to rest last Friday before the Sabbath began at sundown. He did so only after ensuring that all mourners remained an appropriately safe distance from one another.
admin | March 26, 2020
CREEDMOOR, N.C. (JTA) Are you going to the singing thing? my camp friend texts me
admin | March 26, 2020
One quarter of Israelis who have contracted the coronavirus in Israel have been infected through contact with another infected individual in a synagogue, figures released by an advisory group to the Health Ministry on Tuesday revealed.According to the newly released data, the most common place to contract COVID-19 in Israel is synagogues, where 24% of all infections to date have occurred, with another 5% contracted in yeshivas. Another 15% of infections were contracted in hotels, 12% in restaurants, 7% in supermarkets, 7% in other shops, 5% in medical clinics, 3% in educational institutions, 3% in old age homes, 3% in day care for children, 2% each in youth groups, events halls, clubs and shopping malls, and 1% each in gyms, mikvehs, election ballot stations and personal meetings, with the remaining 2% contracted elsewhere. The new figures prompted several groups to call on the chief rabbis to ban prayer in synagogues due to the clear evidence that communal prayer helps spread coronavirus
admin | March 26, 2020
With religious observances canceled or curtailed due to the coronavirus, Passover services ordinarily observed in temples and synagogues as a way to mark the eight-day Jewish holiday that begins on April 8 have also been suspended. According to Mendy Mirocznik, president of the Staten Island Council of Jewish Organizations (COJO), family Seders will go on as usual, hosted in individual homes.
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