admin | March 12, 2020
Superintendent Laura Feijoo and BOE president Amy Moselhi update the New Rochelle school community on coronavirus. Rockland/Westchester Journal News Young Israel of New Rochelle had an onlinePurim party because they couldnt gather at their synagogue this week. The congregants check in on one another.
admin | March 12, 2020
The $5.45 million that has been donated to Tree of Life*Or LSimcha following the October 2018 shooting that killed 11 worshippersthe deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. historywill be given to survivors, first responders, congregations and families of the victims
admin | March 12, 2020
(JTA) On a typical Friday, some 200 people show up for services at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, a Reform congregation in Seattle. But last week, there was no one in the pews as Rabbi Daniel Weiner welcomed Shabbat in the synagogues smaller sanctuary. Instead, some 1,500 people watched Weiner lead the prayers on their computers
admin | March 12, 2020
An independent committee charged with distributing more than $5 million in donations to the Tree of Life*Or LSimcha Congregation in Pittsburgh has issued its final recommendations and will begin distributing the funds to the victims, families and communities affected by the deadly October 2018 terror attack.
admin | March 12, 2020
[Update: On Monday, several suburban schools and private universities announced closings.] NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. There will be no merrymaking, no buzzing noisemakers and no toddlers dressed up as biblical kings and queens: Purim, the joyous Jewish festival that begins on Monday evening, has been canceled for the congregants of Young Israel of New Rochelle.
admin | March 12, 2020
In the early 1990s, some forgotten soul on the internet coined the term meatspace to refer to the offline area that most of us think of as the real world. The term has always been only half a joke: Its funny to think about the real world as secondary to cyberspace, but many people really do operate this way, spending the greater part of their life efforts in digital realms
admin | March 12, 2020
Ive repeatedly issued warnings that ones behavior must be in accordance with the judgment of the doctors and not violate their instructions, said Rabbi Akiva Eiger, a renowned adjudicator of Jewish law in the early 19th century. He wrote these words during a cholera outbreak in Europe. Sure enough, these words also opened a statement by the Chief Rabbinate last week to Israels religious Jews.
admin | March 12, 2020
Maj. Haim Jibly recently received a letter approving his petition to continue volunteering in reserve duty in the Israel Defense Forces, and his joy was palpable.
admin | March 12, 2020
Imam Sayed Hassan Qazwini, head of the Islamic Institute of America in Dearborn Heights, Mich., at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ahead of the Michigan primaries, March 7, 2020.
admin | March 12, 2020
Brooklyn College players Omar Rezika and Hunnan Butt kneel during Israel's National Anthem at Yeshiva University.
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