admin | April 22, 2020
Orthodox yeshivas for boys in Williamsburg are running underground schools in closed synagogues and apartment buildings despite social distancing requirements imposed by the city and state to try to slow the spread of coronavirus, a parent whose child attended one of the secret schools told the Forward. UPDATE: NYC breaks up one secret yeshiva operating in violation of coronavirus rules The source, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from the community, said one of his sons went to school in a closed synagogue building that was unlocked by a teachers family member. He provided evidence of the underground yeshiva in the form of correspondence with the school and another person sent the Forward a screenshot of WhatsApp messages among Satmar parents
Category: Synagogue |
Comments Off on Williamsburg Satmar yeshivas operating secret schools in apartments and synagogues – Forward
Tags:
admin | April 22, 2020
And I will plant them upon their soil, Nevermore to be uprooted From the soil I have given them said Hashem your God. Amos 9:15 (The Israel Bible) IDF security troops destroying buildings in Yitzhar (Photo by Flash90) The Israeli Civil Administration carried out the destruction of several Jewish homes in Samaria on Wednesday despite their policy that during the pandemic this was inhumanebut only for Arabs. Hundreds of IDF Border Police and security personnel entered three small outposts towns near the Samarian town of near Yitzhar in northern Shomron (Samaria) and demolished six buildings including three homes and a synagogue.
Category: Synagogue |
Comments Off on Civil Administration Carries Out Inhumane Destruction of Jewish Homes and Synagogue in Biblical Samaria – Breaking Israel News
Tags:
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.
Category: Ashkenazi |
Comments Off on Disagreement can be the basis of Jewish unity even during a pandemic – The Jerusalem Post
Tags:
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
Category: Hasidic |
Comments Off on Orthodox Jews are donating plasma by the thousands to fight Covid-19 – Forward
Tags:
admin | April 22, 2020
The recent Netflix show Unorthodox has brought my former community, Satmar, into the limelight.
Category: Hasidic |
Comments Off on ‘Unorthodox’ overlooked the humanity of my old Satmar community – Jewish News
Tags:
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
Category: Hasidic |
Comments Off on Monsey machete attack: Grafton Thomas found unfit for trial on attempted murder, hate charges – Lohud
Tags:
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.
Category: Hasidic |
Comments Off on Orthodox Jewish Communities in Bklyn See Frightening Rise in COVID-19 Deaths – The Jewish Voice
Tags:
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.
Category: Talmud |
Comments Off on 21 Talmud Facts Every Jew Should Know – Talmud
Tags:
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
Category: Talmud |
Comments Off on The Survivors’ Talmud: When the US Army Printed the Talmud – Aish
Tags:
admin | April 22, 2020
By RABBI LAWRENCE S. ZIERLER I do not recall ever penning an article by first citing my credentials.
Category: Talmud |
Comments Off on Separating fact from fiction: What does Jewish law say? – The River Reporter
Tags:
