admin | April 24, 2020
When the coronavirus starts to recede, Jewish life across the United States will look a lot like it already does in Fargo. Only 150 Jews live in the biggest city in North Dakota, but its one of the few places in the country where the governor hasnt ordered people to stay home, or put attendance caps on houses of worship
admin | April 24, 2020
The road to reopening for houses of worship has been paved in a handful of states, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to kill more than 1,500 Americans a day. But synagogues in the Republican-led states that are relaxing some restrictions including Georgia, Texas and South Carolina appear unlikely to take advantage of their governors permission to open anytime soon. We are very sensitive to the fact that people are being economically impacted by the closures, but were more concerned about the possible loss of life if theres a second wave so soon, said Rabbi Joshua Heller of Congregation Bnai Torah in Sandy Springs, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
admin | April 24, 2020
(JTA) Midway through Lila Dukes bat mitzvah ceremony, her familys cat made an appearance. Minnies interruption was one of many ways that Lilas coming-of-age ceremony was different from what she had expected
admin | April 24, 2020
People all over our city and the world are struggling with the notion of worship from home. Connectivity issues, appropriate equipment to view or hear and user challenges pale in comparison to the uncomfortable feeling that the inside of our homes are not the inside of the church.
admin | April 24, 2020
(JTA) Yom Kippur had just ended and the members of his synagogue were preparing to go home to eat after a long day of fasting when Alex Klein walked up to the Holy Ark, placed his hand on it, and began speaking directly to God. He stood that way for the better part of an hour. It was descriptive of his belief that you speak to God and God listens, his daughter, Devora Klein-Freeman, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
admin | April 24, 2020
Courtesy of JewishLIVE Joseph Schwartz, host of The Idra Hour, a new podcast from JewishLIVE, compares cocktails with guest Jeffrey Israel. For some of us, the hardest part about quarantine is missing out on gabfests with friends at synagogue IRL, not online.
admin | April 24, 2020
The four-part Netflix series Unorthodox is the latest in a growing mini-industry of books and television programs depicting the inner working of the Hasidic community to an apparently vast market of fascinated observers. It has justly been praised for the attention to detail paid in accurately depicting clothes, haircuts, furniture, Hebrew accents and, in a particularly ground-breaking move, the Yiddish language. Not every detail is perfect, but I a Hasid born and raised was genuinely impressed by details like the plastic-covered rococo chairs, the foil-plastered Pesach kitchen, and the size of the Rebbes gartel that accurately conjured up my world
admin | April 24, 2020
Masbia Soup Kitchen has partnered with Mordy Getz, the owner of Eichlers Judaica Bookstore, to offer free groceries to any Boro Park family which has lost a breadwinner to coronavirus. The novel coronavirus has devastated tight-knit Hasidic communities in New York
admin | April 24, 2020
Since Russ & Daughters opened in Manhattan in 1914, the family-run store has weathered the Spanish flu, two world wars, recessions and the Great Depression. With the new coronavirus pandemic sweeping the country, the current generation, Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, is doing what the family has always done: deliver bagels and cream cheese, lox and herring to people craving the emotional sustenance that the traditional Jewish favorites bring. At Katzs Delicatessen, Jake Dell begins his mornings making matzoh balls to keep up with the spike in orders for matzoh ball soup as his customers seek comfort in uncertain times
admin | April 24, 2020
(Jewish Journal via JNS)On Thursday night, as sundown falls on the holiday of Passover, Sephardic Jews everywhere will celebrate the centuries-old tradition of Mimouna. This is the night when Jews open their doors to their neighbors, offering tables lavish with sweets to usher in a year of sweetness and good fortune. If theres a Jewish ritual that calls for maximum social connection, Mimouna is it.
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