admin | March 28, 2020
Jewish leaders are concerned that messages about the risks of Covid-19, and the need to isolate and keep social distance, are not reaching pockets of the ultra-Orthodox community who rarely engage with the media and have limited access to the internet.
admin | March 28, 2020
The much-loved rabbi of Edgware and Hendon Reform synagogue has died suddenly from coronavirus. Rabbi Neil Kraft, who wasborn and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, spent 17 years leading the community and was due to retire in a matter of weeks. He appeared unwell in shul last weekend after conducting part of the Shabbat service via a live stream.
admin | March 26, 2020
Shortly after California ordered its citizens to remain at home and closed many businesses, Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi, of Congregation Chevra Thilim in San Francisco, needed to tend to the most sobering part of his vocation: He had to conduct a funeral. An elderly woman in his synagoguethe oldest Orthodox congregation in the cityhad recently died from a stroke and in keeping with Jewish custom that burial should occur within the first few days, Rabbi Zarchi helped lay her to rest last Friday before the Sabbath began at sundown. He did so only after ensuring that all mourners remained an appropriately safe distance from one another.
admin | March 26, 2020
CREEDMOOR, N.C. (JTA) Are you going to the singing thing? my camp friend texts me
admin | March 26, 2020
One quarter of Israelis who have contracted the coronavirus in Israel have been infected through contact with another infected individual in a synagogue, figures released by an advisory group to the Health Ministry on Tuesday revealed.According to the newly released data, the most common place to contract COVID-19 in Israel is synagogues, where 24% of all infections to date have occurred, with another 5% contracted in yeshivas. Another 15% of infections were contracted in hotels, 12% in restaurants, 7% in supermarkets, 7% in other shops, 5% in medical clinics, 3% in educational institutions, 3% in old age homes, 3% in day care for children, 2% each in youth groups, events halls, clubs and shopping malls, and 1% each in gyms, mikvehs, election ballot stations and personal meetings, with the remaining 2% contracted elsewhere. The new figures prompted several groups to call on the chief rabbis to ban prayer in synagogues due to the clear evidence that communal prayer helps spread coronavirus
admin | March 26, 2020
With religious observances canceled or curtailed due to the coronavirus, Passover services ordinarily observed in temples and synagogues as a way to mark the eight-day Jewish holiday that begins on April 8 have also been suspended. According to Mendy Mirocznik, president of the Staten Island Council of Jewish Organizations (COJO), family Seders will go on as usual, hosted in individual homes.
admin | March 26, 2020
A member of the New Rochelle synagogue with the first COVID-19 victims is still under isolation despite being asymptomatic for weeks. Rockland/Westchester Journal News Eli Epstein had a low-grade fever for a day or two in early March and tested positive for coronavirus as it spread through his neighborhoodin New Rochelle.
admin | March 18, 2020
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) As the sun set Friday in Jewish homes across the world, the faithful lit Sabbath candles to participate once again in Gods first creative act to bring light into the world. The world was filled with darkness and chaos when, as written in the Torah, God spoke the first words, Let there be light.
admin | March 18, 2020
The Jewish community rallied to support isolated individuals through volunteering initiatives this week amid government advice on social distancing to lessen the chances of catching coronavirus. The United Synagogue set up a helpline operating between 9am and 5pm Monday to Thursday and 9-1pm on Fridays, while several shuls have set up live-streaming for those who cannot get to synagogue to watch and listen to Shabbat services
admin | March 18, 2020
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