admin | March 12, 2020
[Update: On Monday, several suburban schools and private universities announced closings.] NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. There will be no merrymaking, no buzzing noisemakers and no toddlers dressed up as biblical kings and queens: Purim, the joyous Jewish festival that begins on Monday evening, has been canceled for the congregants of Young Israel of New Rochelle.
admin | March 12, 2020
In the early 1990s, some forgotten soul on the internet coined the term meatspace to refer to the offline area that most of us think of as the real world. The term has always been only half a joke: Its funny to think about the real world as secondary to cyberspace, but many people really do operate this way, spending the greater part of their life efforts in digital realms
admin | March 12, 2020
Ive repeatedly issued warnings that ones behavior must be in accordance with the judgment of the doctors and not violate their instructions, said Rabbi Akiva Eiger, a renowned adjudicator of Jewish law in the early 19th century. He wrote these words during a cholera outbreak in Europe. Sure enough, these words also opened a statement by the Chief Rabbinate last week to Israels religious Jews.
admin | March 10, 2020
(JTA) On a typical Friday, some 200 people show up for services at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, a Reform congregation in Seattle. But last week, there was no one in the pews as Rabbi Daniel Weiner welcomed Shabbat in the synagogues smaller sanctuary. Instead, some 1,500 people watched Weiner lead the prayers on their computers.
admin | March 10, 2020
The Young Israel synagogue of New Rochelle is at the center of a new "containment area" announced by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Tuesday. New York Governor's Office hide caption The Young Israel synagogue of New Rochelle is at the center of a new "containment area" announced by New York Gov.
admin | March 10, 2020
Families of Pittsburgh synagogue victims to get $3 million from donated funds The Forward ", c, "> "].join("") } var c = "body", e = h[c]; if (!e) return setTimeout(q, 100); a.P(1); var d = "appendChild", g = "createElement", i = "src", k = h[g]("div"), l = k[d](h[g]("div")), f = h[g]("iframe"), n = "document", p; k.style.display = "none"; e.insertBefore(k, e.firstChild).id = o + "-" + j; f.frameBorder = "0"; f.id = o + "-frame-" + j; /MSIE[ ]+6/.test(navigator.userAgent) && (f[i] = "javascript:false"); f.allowTransparency = "true"; l[d](f); try { f.contentWindow[n].open() } catch (s) { a.domain = h.domain, p = "javascript:var d=" + n + ".open();d.domain='" + h.domain + "';", f[i] = p + "void(0);" } try { var r = f.contentWindow[n]; r.write(b()); r.close() } catch (t) { f[i] = p + 'd.write("' + b().replace(/"/g, String.fromCharCode(92) + '"') + '");d.close();' } a.P(2) }; a.l && q() })() }(); c[b].lv = "1"; return c[b] } var o = "lightboxjs", k = window[o] = g(o); k.require = g; k.modules = c }({}); /**/ (JTA) The three congregations housed at Pittsburghs Tree of Life synagogue will distribute more than $5.4 million donated in the aftermath of the deadly October 2018 shooting there.
admin | March 10, 2020
AMSTERDAM (JTA) The rapid spread of the coronavirus throughout Europe may be affecting Jewish communities there, but it hasnt dampened their sense of humor. On Friday, the Jewish community of Raalte in the eastern Netherlands shared a video of a French congregant showing off his invention: a kippah with elastic bands that can be moved from the top of the wearers head to cover ones mouth and nose, like the now ubiquitous face masks being worn around the world in the wake of the virus. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! the Masorti Jewish Community of Beth Shoshanna wrote on its Facebook page two days before Purim, the Jewish holiday celebrating the Jewish peoples deliverance from their enemies as well as foolishness and joviality.
admin | March 1, 2020
In July 2017, Israeli historian Yoram Meital stumbled upon a handwritten 1028 CE biblical codex that was lying abandoned on a dusty shelf in a Cairo synagogue.
admin | March 1, 2020
Featured Photo by Jaemi Loeb A group of 30, most from Metro Detroit, escaped winter for a week and had the thrill of stepping on a sand-covered synagogue floor among other interesting Jewish sites during the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroits inaugural Jews of the Caribbean cruise. Leaders were Jaemi B
admin | March 1, 2020
This year, Purim begins in the evening of March 9 and continues through the evening of March 10. The holiday commemorates the defeat of Hamans plot to massacre the Jews as recorded in the Book of Esther. Dont know where to go and what to do to celebrate Purim?
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