admin | April 8, 2020
How do you put into perspective the demise of The Canadian Jewish News given the illness and death that are wreaking havoc throughout the world? It is folly to create scales of suffering but the loss of a newspaper goes beyond the impact on its dedicated staff.
admin | April 8, 2020
Yeshiva Universitys Office of Alumni Affairs introduced a Community Learning Initiative, an array of online learning opportunities for the YU community. Below is a summary of the first series of virtual webinars presented by our talented teachers that ran from March 23-31, 2020. Judaic Studies Faculty, Stern College for Women; Assistant Director of AdmissionsGrowth, Goals and Grit: Religious and Psychological Strategies for Flourishing During Challenging Times (March 23) Within the context of coping with the challenges of the coronavirus, Rabbi Schiffman explored Dr
admin | April 8, 2020
The mishnah in the tenth chapter of Pesacim includes a set of mah nishtanah. If one opens a standard Babylonian Talmud (Pesacim 116a), one sees four questions in the text of the mishnah (matzah, maror, roast and dipping). But if one opens a standard Jerusalem Talmud, one sees three questions (dipping, matzah and roast)
admin | April 8, 2020
Rabbi Eli Stefansky, who leads a worldwide daily lesson in Talmud, observed Wednesday that this year marks the first time in history that Passover has been celebrated in discrete families save for the very first Passover, in Egypt, in the Exodus.
admin | April 8, 2020
On the Jewish holiday of Passover, tradition holds that the youngest child present at the table asks the question, Why is this night different from all other nights? This particular Passover, smack in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, will undoubtedly be different from all other holidays that friends and families have celebrated in the past.
admin | April 8, 2020
Ive been in an apartment on a quiet Jerusalem street for the past couple of weeks. Last week I spent Shabbat alone for the first time.
admin | April 8, 2020
During Pesach we recite the plagues in which many Egyptians died and sing Shirat HaYam, detailing the horrific drowning of the pursuing army, as the Israelites celebrate that horse and rider are thrown into the sea.
admin | April 8, 2020
The Netflix limited series Unorthodox follows Esty, a young Hasidic woman desperate to flee the only world she has ever known for an uncertain future halfway around the world. Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Williamsburg in a Satmar community a Hasidic sect known for its extreme religious conservatism and rigidly enforced gender roles Esty (Shira Haas) escapes to Berlin, where she befriends a group of conservatory students and attempts to track down her estranged mother. The series flashes back to explain the circumstances that led her to make such a dramatic break with the past: As a sheltered teenager, she is set up in an arranged marriage with Yanky (Amit Rahav), a young man she barely knows, and is expected to start a family almost immediately
admin | April 8, 2020
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Orthodox Jewish community to refrain from holding large religious gatherings, saying on Tuesday that the New York Police Department will do what they need to do to enforce his social distancing regulations. I understand religious gatherings, I understand the Jewish Orthodox community
admin | April 8, 2020
(JTA) The family of a Brooklyn grandfather performed funeral rites for the wrong body due to a mix-up but their upset turned to satisfaction for helping out a stranger with no one to grieve his loss.
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