admin | April 22, 2020
During the coronavirus outbreak, we have witnessed a stubborn resistance among some of the most insular and ultra-Orthodox pockets of the Jewish community regarding compliance with critical pleas for social distancing and shelter-in-place orders, both in the United States and Israel. These developments have been a source of concern and frustration among a wide swath of the Jewish community, including other Orthodox Jews.
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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
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admin | April 22, 2020
The recent Netflix show Unorthodox has brought my former community, Satmar, into the limelight.
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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
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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.
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admin | April 22, 2020
1. TheTalmud Is the Link Between Scripture and Jewish Practice The Hebrew Scripture (also known as Torah) is thebedrock of Jewish practice and beliefs.
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admin | April 22, 2020
With the help of the US Army, Jewish Holocaust survivors printed copies of the Talmud. As World War II drew to a close in 1945, survivors of the Nazi death camps tried to rebuild their shattered lives in Displaced Person (DP) camps, many of which were housed in the very concentration camps in which Nazis had recently tortured and murdered Jews and others. On September 29, over three months after the end of the war in Europe, US President Harry S
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admin | April 22, 2020
By RABBI LAWRENCE S. ZIERLER I do not recall ever penning an article by first citing my credentials.
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admin | April 22, 2020
Klal Yisroel has lost one of its most experienced Rebbeim.
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admin | April 22, 2020
JURIST Guest Columnist Louis Ren Beres, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Purdue, advises America to adopt empathy and openness to the world community in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the halt on funding for the WHO. . . The earth from which the first man was made was gathered in all the four corners of the world.
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