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Rabbi Sholom Eidelman, one of the longest-serving Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in the worlda devoted Chassid, teacher and congregational leader who along with his wife, Gittel, rarely left the North African nation of Morocco since being dispatched there in 1958passed away in a hospital in Casablanca on April 10, the second day of Passover, after contracting COVID-19. He was 84 years old.
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admin | April 17, 2020
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admin | April 17, 2020
NEW YORK (JTA) Every Passover, we strive to experience Egypt in our own lives. Locating the suffering of our Egypt wasnt hard this year: It seems like most days my husband and I share the names of new people we personally know who have passed away from COVID-19 and families devastated by the challenging conditions in which their loved ones passed away. We have been mourning the absence of community, the simplest and deepest of joys.
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admin | April 15, 2020
While their parents may have relied on tape recorders and CDs for their own bnei mitzvah preparations, students today learning to chant Torah can turn to YouTube. There are lots of cantors who have produced high-quality recordings on YouTube, said Ben Rotenberg, education director at Germantown Jewish Centre in Pennsylvania.
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admin | April 15, 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 15, 2020
The popular website Nextdoor purports to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on, according to its mission statement. Thats not what San Francisco real estate developer Craig Lipton experienced when he received an email from his Nob Hill Nextdoor account on April 10, alerting him to a new posting, allegedly from one of his neighbors
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admin | April 15, 2020
Mindy* listened to the rabbi preside over her uncles funeral on Zoom. The virtual event has become commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it still felt surreal to her. Her father and uncle Ralph had been unusually close their dad died when they were young, and Ralph helped raise his little brother
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admin | April 15, 2020
He called himself Commander online. He was a leader of an international neo-Nazi group linked to plots to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and detonate a car bomb at a major U.S. news network.
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admin | April 15, 2020
WASHINGTON (CNS) As the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause a severe economic slowdown and, among some people, distrust of the media and government, white supremacists across the nation are attempting to capitalize on the crisis to take advantage of the scared and confused in hopes of recruiting new followers. One white nationalist in particular, Tom Kawczynski, 39, currently hosts a podcast called "Coronavirus Central" on multiple sites, including Apple Podcasts, that is among the most popular podcasts under the health and fitness category
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admin | April 15, 2020
Though I am not entirely sure why, people seem just plain fascinated by the (supposedly) cloistered communities of black clad Jews who briskly swarm -- entourage and side curls in tow -- through the streets of Brooklyn, the Diamond District and Old Jerusalem.
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