admin | September 23, 2020
(JTA) Within hours of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death on Friday evening, an obscure Jewish tradition began circulating online: Someone who dies on or just before Rosh Hashanah is a righteous person. A Jewish teaching says those who die just before the Jewish new year are the ones God has held back until the last moment bc they were needed most & were the most righteous, NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg tweeted just after midnight
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admin | September 23, 2020
By Rabbi Steven Graber In the Talmud, Masechet Berachot, Rabbi Levi presents to us this problem: It reads in Psalm 24, The earth and its fullness belong to the Lord, but it also reads in Psalm 115, Heaven is the heaven of the Lord, but the earth He gave to the sons of men.
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admin | September 23, 2020
This coming weekend we will celebrate Rosh Hashanah, our Jewish New Year. During the Musaf prayer service on the second day of the holiday, apiyyut, or sacred song, is chanted, which begins with the words: Never miss the best stories and events for families, children and teens! Get JewishBoston Plus Kids.
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admin | September 23, 2020
The blowing of the shofar, traditionally done on Rosh Hashanah. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The Jewish year, and thus the annual cycle of the Torah reading, is coming to an end
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admin | September 23, 2020
Chag HaSukkot (the festival of Tabernacles) is one of the three pilgrimage festivals, along with the holidays of Passover and Shavuot. Yom Tov (holiday) begins with candle lighting in the Sukkah, in conjunction with the Shabbat, Friday, Oct. 2, 18 minutes prior to sundown
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admin | September 23, 2020
MIAMI, Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Victor Center for the Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases, which offers preconception screening and genetic counseling for prospective parents, has recently expanded services to offer genetic screening and virtual clinical consults to couples and individuals in New York, New Jersey and Maryland
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admin | September 23, 2020
The coronavirus cabinet has been meeting since 2 p.m. Wednesday to discuss how to tighten restrictions on the public as the number of coronavirus cases in the country soar.
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admin | September 23, 2020
100,000 march in Minsk for week 7 of Belarus protests KYIV, Ukraine Tens of thousands of Belarusians calling for the authoritarian president to resign march through the capital as the countrys wave of protests enters its seventh week. Hundreds of soldiers block off the center of Minsk, deploying water cannons and armored personnel carriers and erecting barbed wire barriers. Protests also take place in several other cities, including Brest and Grodno
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admin | September 23, 2020
The Trump administration is pressuring Lebanon to open a line for direct negotiations with Israel before the elections. It seems that wishful thinking is one thing, but the reality Lebanon is experiencing, with its political components and complications is another. Washington and Israel are still hoping to make a breakthrough in the Lebanese scene, not only with regards to the formation of the new government, but also regarding claiming Lebanons gas and oil, which Israel claims to have a right to.
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admin | September 23, 2020
Over a third of young members of the ultra-Orthodox community feel their trust in their political representatives has severely eroded recently, a poll conducted in early August and published for the first time in Haaretz shows.
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