admin | April 22, 2020
Shelter-in-place has become the standard remedy to slow the spread of COVID-19. But what does shelter-in-place mean for people without a home in which to shelter? Family Promise of Greater Phoenix, an emergency shelter program for first-time homeless families, is attempting to grapple with social distancing constraints that, in practice, mean that the organization can no longer house families in churches, synagogues and mosques the way it normally does.
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admin | April 22, 2020
At the beginning of March, 13-year-old Sam Kaplan and his family watched as events everywhere were canceled because of the coronavirus crisis. Sam, a student at The Rashi School in Dedham, had planned to have his bar mitzvah at Temple Aliyah in Needham on March 28. When the synagogue closed, his parents decided nothing would stop them from celebrating their sons special day.
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admin | April 22, 2020
I wasnt expecting HBOs The Plot Against America, David Simons miniseries adaptation of the Philip Roth novel, to scar me the way it has. I work with news about the rise of anti-Semitism and hate crimes around the world on a daily basis. As an editor focused more on international coverage recently, here are some of the highlights from this past week or so: atorched synagoguein Russia, a Romanian priest who kind ofcomparedJews to the coronavirus anda neo-Nazi group run by a 13-year-oldthat planned to bomb a synagogue.
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admin | April 22, 2020
During the coronavirus pandemic, many bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies in the Bay Area and around the globe are being streamed online, while others have been delayed until its safe for people to gather in a synagogue. Often, synagogues including Conservative ones will allow bnai mitzvah who have postponed their ceremonies to read the Torah or haftarah portion they studied on a later date. But neither broadcasting Shabbat services nor reading portions out of date are viable options for Orthodox Jews
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admin | April 22, 2020
Standing Room Only Even as he cut the ribbon on the doors of the Romano Chabad Centre, Rabbi Mendel Bernstein knew it was too small. We needed a bigger place, but we couldnt afford it, he recalls. Instead, the community made do with a sensible 10,000-square-foot building situated on three acres of Richmond Hill in Toronto, Ontario
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admin | April 22, 2020
Orthodox yeshivas for boys in Williamsburg are running underground schools in closed synagogues and apartment buildings despite social distancing requirements imposed by the city and state to try to slow the spread of coronavirus, a parent whose child attended one of the secret schools told the Forward. UPDATE: NYC breaks up one secret yeshiva operating in violation of coronavirus rules The source, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from the community, said one of his sons went to school in a closed synagogue building that was unlocked by a teachers family member. He provided evidence of the underground yeshiva in the form of correspondence with the school and another person sent the Forward a screenshot of WhatsApp messages among Satmar parents
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admin | April 22, 2020
And I will plant them upon their soil, Nevermore to be uprooted From the soil I have given them said Hashem your God. Amos 9:15 (The Israel Bible) IDF security troops destroying buildings in Yitzhar (Photo by Flash90) The Israeli Civil Administration carried out the destruction of several Jewish homes in Samaria on Wednesday despite their policy that during the pandemic this was inhumanebut only for Arabs. Hundreds of IDF Border Police and security personnel entered three small outposts towns near the Samarian town of near Yitzhar in northern Shomron (Samaria) and demolished six buildings including three homes and a synagogue.
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admin | April 18, 2020
JTA A Maryland man accused of painting a swastika on a local synagogue had firebombed a nearby church as part of his plan to target multiple houses of worship to worship Satan, police said. Andrew Costas, 28, of Rockville was arrested this week in connection with the anti-Semitic vandalism on March 28 at the Tikvat Israel Congregation in his hometown and the hurling of firebombs on April 8 at St.
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admin | April 18, 2020
For thousands of synagogues across America, Passover marked the first time in history that their doors were closed for Yizkor.
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admin | April 18, 2020
Im the man behind the waterfall of Zoom links that comprise what used to be the COVID-19 updates page, and is now simply our website. A lot of you dont know me Im usually busy behind the scenes. But allow me to introduce myself.
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