admin | April 18, 2020
Thousands of New Yorkers aren't attending services at their respective houses of worship right nowwhen they may need to the most. Thankfully, churches, synagogues and other holy places are live-streaming their sermons, homilies and practices of faith so their congregations can still worship. To help you tune in, here arethe weekly streams from someof the city's biggest houses of worship: Each Sunday's mass is live at 10:15am atsaintpatrickscathedral.org/live.
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admin | April 18, 2020
I set up a green screen to make it look like I was in the synagogue: How this Toronto rabbi hosted a Seder over Zoom In the Jewish tradition, a Passover Seder is a time to get together with the key people in our lives. No matter how observant you are, or how disconnected you may feel from Jewish culture, this is the night when we all come together under one roof to celebrate our Jewish identity by singing songs, reciting prayers, eating symbolic foods and collectively remembering the story of the ancient Israelites exodus from Egypt
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admin | April 17, 2020
Israel has been hoping to warm its relations with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for years, although such relations have not developed even with countries with which Israel has signed peace agreements. This may indicate the need for a different approach, one that begins internally within the Israeli society and that follows the long trail of its roots in the region. Such an approach could serve as a compass that can direct us to where prosperous models of civic ties used to be or can be found today
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admin | April 17, 2020
Lily O'Neill April 15, 2020 2 After 37 years, owner Mark Greenberg (left) has decided to close down The Market in Larimer Square.
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admin | April 17, 2020
While Massachusetts is expanding coronavirus testing across nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, some operators and health care advocates say persistent gaps could lead to more cases and deaths among some of the states most vulnerable residents. The numbers are sobering
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admin | April 17, 2020
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times We say this Aramaic text just before Pesach every year. We recite it once in the evening and again in the morning. What is behind the wording of Bitul Chometz
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admin | April 17, 2020
One of the front-line defenses individuals have against the spread of the coronavirus can feel decidedly low-tech:hand-washing. In fact, it was 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis who, after observational studies, first advanced the idea of hand hygiene in medical settings.
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admin | April 17, 2020
The coronavirus has created global havoc, uncertainty and dread.
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admin | April 17, 2020
Sephardi, also spelled Sefardi, plural Sephardim or Sefardim, from Hebrew Sefarad (Spain), member or descendant of the Jews who lived in Spain and Portugal from at least the later centuries of the Roman Empire until their persecution and mass expulsion from those countries in the last decades of the 15th century. Read More on This Topic Judaism: Sephardic developments In Muslim Spain, Jews frequently served the government in official capacities and, therefore, not only took an active interest in political The Sephardim initially fled to North Africa and other parts of the Ottoman Empire, and many of these eventually settled in such countries as France, Holland, England, Italy, and the Balkans. Salonika (Thessalonki) in Macedonia and the city of Amsterdam became major sites of Sephardic settlement.
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admin | April 17, 2020
The latest chapter in the story of an extraordinary Passover book WHY, JEWISH children asked at the Passover meal last week, is this night different from all others? The question is stipulated in the Haggadah, a ritual book that recounts the Israelites escape from bondage in Egypt
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