admin | June 26, 2020
Where does one start with Unorthodox? With the fake shtreimels which would hardly satisfy a 9-year old Hasidic boy dressing up for Purim
admin | June 26, 2020
Throughout the pandemic, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has singled out the Jewish community for violating stay-at-home orders. Now, although Jews still face severe restrictions on religious gatherings after months without access to synagogues, he has permitted protesters to gather in the thousands and break social distancing guidelines.
admin | June 24, 2020
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Weinreb Conflict resolution is one of the most important tasks in human relations. Open up any newspaper and you will read of schoolchildren bullying each other, of married couples who are in bitter conflict, of political parties enmeshed in verbal warfare, and of nations literally at war.
admin | June 24, 2020
(JTA) In the world of Orthodox Judaism, men may run the synagogues but Lenora Garfinkel built them. Garfinkel was one of the first women to study architecture at the prestigious Cooper Union College in New York and went on to build Jewish community buildings across the New York metropolitan area over the course of a career spanning more than six decades.
admin | June 24, 2020
(JTA) This week, as he prepares to open Camp Modin and administer coronavirus tests to its hundreds of campers and staff, Howard Salzberg is still fielding 50 calls a day from parents who want to send their kids.
admin | June 24, 2020
Is Chabad-Lubavitch, the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic outreach movement, returning to the political wars?
admin | June 24, 2020
Chris McKenna|Times Herald-Record The operators of sleepaway camps in the Catskills attended by thousands of Hasidic children, from Orange and Rockland counties, Brooklyn and elsewhere, are fighting in court to open those camps this week despite the objections of state health officials. A Jewish camp organization that sued Gov
admin | June 24, 2020
On the rare occasions they're featured on TV at all, Jewish weddings can be shorthanded down to two elements: The breaking of a glass and somebody shouting, "Mazel tov!" Maybe, if the storytellers are feeling adventurous, the bride and groom might be hoisted in a chair. This spring, though, several shows raised the bar a bar that hadn't really budged much since the Pfeffermans brought their brand of coastal-cultural Jewishness to Amazon on Jill Soloway's Transparent back in 2014
admin | June 24, 2020
Vote Georgina. Photo: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix Given her penchant for blithely announcing that she doesnt remember her various co-stars, its hard to say if Gwyneth Paltrow knows that she is on The Politician.
admin | June 24, 2020
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