admin | April 24, 2020
Since Russ & Daughters opened in Manhattan in 1914, the family-run store has weathered the Spanish flu, two world wars, recessions and the Great Depression. With the new coronavirus pandemic sweeping the country, the current generation, Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, is doing what the family has always done: deliver bagels and cream cheese, lox and herring to people craving the emotional sustenance that the traditional Jewish favorites bring. At Katzs Delicatessen, Jake Dell begins his mornings making matzoh balls to keep up with the spike in orders for matzoh ball soup as his customers seek comfort in uncertain times
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admin | April 24, 2020
(Jewish Journal via JNS)On Thursday night, as sundown falls on the holiday of Passover, Sephardic Jews everywhere will celebrate the centuries-old tradition of Mimouna. This is the night when Jews open their doors to their neighbors, offering tables lavish with sweets to usher in a year of sweetness and good fortune. If theres a Jewish ritual that calls for maximum social connection, Mimouna is it.
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admin | April 24, 2020
Members of numerous religions take part in an historic interreligious prayer meeting in Jerusalem. By Francesca Merlo Different religions were represented at the exceptional community prayer that took place on Wednesday afternoon in Jerusalem. There were representatives of Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Druze denominations.
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admin | April 22, 2020
Thousands of people lined up in just a few moments notice to donate plasma to possibly save the lives of critically ill COVID-19 patients.
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admin | April 22, 2020
Food coverageis supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Earlier this month, Jesse Bloom was supposed to cook two community seders in one week. Between Walnut Creeks Congregation Bnai Tikvah and Piedmonts Kehilla Community Synagogue, he would have fed around 275 people
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admin | April 19, 2020
Photo Credit: Flash90 {Originally posted to the JNS website} On Thursday night, as sundown falls on the holiday of Passover, Sephardic Jews everywhere will celebrate the centuries-old tradition of Mimouna. This is the night when Jews open their doors to their neighbors, offering tables lavish with sweets to usher in a year of sweetness and good fortune.
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admin | April 18, 2020
Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, has long studied modern Jewish history from a global perspective. In his new biography of Theodor Herzl, Penslar examined how the founder of modern Zionisms personal life influenced his political impact
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admin | April 18, 2020
(April 16, 2020 / Jewish Journal) On Thursday night, as sundown falls on the holiday of Passover, Sephardic Jews everywhere will celebrate the centuries-old tradition of Mimouna.
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admin | April 18, 2020
Chess on steroids These days I have spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about Sinan Reis. If you have no idea who that is, that is not surprising
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admin | April 17, 2020
Sephardi, also spelled Sefardi, plural Sephardim or Sefardim, from Hebrew Sefarad (Spain), member or descendant of the Jews who lived in Spain and Portugal from at least the later centuries of the Roman Empire until their persecution and mass expulsion from those countries in the last decades of the 15th century. Read More on This Topic Judaism: Sephardic developments In Muslim Spain, Jews frequently served the government in official capacities and, therefore, not only took an active interest in political The Sephardim initially fled to North Africa and other parts of the Ottoman Empire, and many of these eventually settled in such countries as France, Holland, England, Italy, and the Balkans. Salonika (Thessalonki) in Macedonia and the city of Amsterdam became major sites of Sephardic settlement.
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