Dr. Ronnie Perelis Receives a Grant for Translating the Americas – Yu News
admin | May 22, 2020
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The borough’s nursing and midwife heroines of the First World War – Bury Times
admin | May 22, 2020
AT the outbreak of the First World War people from all walks of life took up the call to do their bit for King and country. While men enlisted in the armed forces, many thousands of women, mainly from the middle classes, signed up to become Red Cross nurses in the new Voluntary Aid Detachments. Known as VADs, these selfless women took up unpaid positions in military and auxilliary hospitals, both overseas, close to the front, and back at home
Shi, Sassouni running for re-election in Great Neck Board of Education races – Great Neck News – The Island Now
admin | May 13, 2020
The Great Neck Board of Education election, which will now take place on June 9, features both a contested and uncontested race for two spots on the board. Trustees Rebecca Sassouni and Jeffrey Shi were elected to the board for the first time in 2017.
Women to Join Global Lag BaOmer ‘Together’ – Yeshiva World News
admin | May 13, 2020
What will it take to finally change the worldfor Good? Three women had an idea, and Lets L.A.G. Together! was born
Sephardic Jews and Electric Shavers – Jewish Link of New Jersey
admin | May 10, 2020
By Rabbi Haim Jachter | May 07, 2020 Rav Ovadia on Electric Shavers Many of Shaarei Orahs male congregants are concerned about Rav Ovadia Yosefs ruling (Yabia Omer 9 Yoreh Deah 10:15) regarding electric razors.
The Things We Love – lareviewofbooks
admin | May 10, 2020
MAY 9, 2020 THE LEVY FAMILYS roots connect them to a place and a community that no longer exists. The place was the port city of Ottoman Salonica, present-day Thessaloniki, Greece, one of the few cities in modern Europe ever to claim a Jewish majority.
Will Blood Plasma From Recovered Patients Help in the Treatment of COVID-19? – Brooklyn Reader
admin | May 10, 2020
The Jewish community recently held a blood drive, urging people who recovered from the deadly novel coronavirus to donate. Oholei Torah in Crown Heights and Flatbushs Sephardic Community Center were two of the sites that stretched from the tristate area to as far away as Detroit. The Crown Heights community, which has many residents who have contracted and recovered from the coronavirus, now has enormous potential to save lives by donating plasma! an article in the Crown Heights-based Collive said, calling on residents to join its Plasma Save A Life Initiative.
It’s the perfect time to get into pickling – The Jewish News of Northern California
admin | April 30, 2020
This story originally appeared on The Nosher and was distributed by JTA. Youve tried coaxing a sourdough starter to life or braiding a challah, turned speckled bananas into muffins, maybe even churned out sheets of pasta
Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, 79, Former Chief Rabbi of Israel – Remembered as a wise scholar and ‘man of the people’ – Chabad.org
admin | April 29, 2020
Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, who served as Israels Sephardic Chief Rabbi (Rishon Letzion) between the years of 1993 and 2003, passed away on April 12, in the middle of Passover, as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19). He was 79 years old. Bakshi-Doron was born in Jerusalem in 1941.
Accompanying families of fallen soldiers, albeit by their sides online – Cleveland Jewish News
admin | April 29, 2020
For the first time in Israeli history, Yom HazikaronRemembrance Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Israeldid not see bereaved family members and friends of the fallen gather across the country at cemeteries to remember and honor those who sacrificed their lives for the countrys existence. This was a big source of distress for bereaved families, Lt.
