admin | August 24, 2020
(Reuters) - India reported a record daily jump of coronavirus infections on Saturday, bringing the total of cases near 3 million and piling pressure on authorities to curb huge gatherings as a major religious festival began. DEATHS AND INFECTIONS * For an interactive graphic tracking the global spread, click: https://tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7 * For a U.S.-focused tracker with state-by-state and county map, click: https://tmsnrt.rs/2w7hX9T EUROPE * Around 1,500 volunteers equipped with face masks, hand disinfectant and tracking gadgets attended an indoor concert in Germany as part of a study to simulate how the coronavirus spreads in large gatherings. * Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged people to act on health advice after official data showed daily COVID-19 infections had risen to a record level
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admin | August 24, 2020
Global coronavirus deaths surged past 800,000 people on Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University data, which came less than 24 hours after the World Health Organization said it hoped the pandemic would last for less than two years. Cases took an upward turn in eastern European countries Saturday as Ukraine recorded 2,328 new cases and 37 deaths between Friday and Saturday, figures from the national council of security and defense showed.
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admin | August 24, 2020
Jewish Crown Heights residents remember microscopic details about the riots of 1991 29 years ago, on Wednesday. They recall the acronyms used to differentiate between the different types of ambulances that served the victims of the car crash that started it all. They remember the ins and outs of the court cases for one of the killers of Yankel Rosenbaum
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admin | August 24, 2020
A version of this story about Shira Haas first appeared in the Emmy Hot List issue of TheWraps Emmy magazine. Shira Haas is one of the discoveries of this years Emmy season. The petite 25-year-old Israeli was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Unorthodox, a Netflix limited series loosely based on the Deborah Feldman memoir about a young woman who runs away from her husband and family in the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in New York.
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admin | August 10, 2020
When Shavy Landau fainted in the shower after her third round of chemo in 2015, the last thing she wanted was a man from her ultra-Orthodox Borough Park community to see her bald and naked.
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admin | August 10, 2020
During quarantine, I watched the recent Netflix series Unorthodox and the movie The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch. They are examples of a recent trend in romantic comediessee also Shtisel, Menashe, and The Womens Balconyset in Ultra-Orthodox or Hasidic communities
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admin | August 10, 2020
More than 150 Jewish gravestones have been unearthed during construction work in the Polish town of Lezajsk in recent months, in what is thought to be the biggest such discovery in years.
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admin | August 8, 2020
For my thirteenth birthday, my stepfather gave me a camera.
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admin | August 4, 2020
If youve havent seen the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox perhaps these eight Emmy nominations will convince you. The four-episode show follows Shira Haas as Esty Shapiro, a 19-year-old Jewish woman who flees an arranged marriage to try and lead a secular life. The series, which is primarily in Yiddish, is inspired by Deborah Feldmans 2012 autobiography Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots.
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admin | August 2, 2020
Shira Haas, the star of the Netflix limited series Unorthodox, about Esther, a young woman fleeing Hasidic Brooklyn, will always have a record of where she was when she received her first Emmy nomination. She decided to film the moment alongside Amit Rahav, who plays her husband in the series, because the two actors live a three-minute walk from each other in Tel Aviv. It could have been a disappointing clip, but it wasnt.
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