admin | September 27, 2020
Author Sharron Mendel Swain - September 24, 2020September 24, 2020A congregant blew the shofar at a safe distance from the crowd. Photo via Audrey Nicole Photography Mid-March, most religious organizations moved online.
admin | September 27, 2020
(JTA) Shlomo Zuckier was walking out of his in-laws house Saturday morning to go to outdoor synagogue services when he saw the newspaper on the ground. Through the plastic bag, he could read the headline with the biggest story of the previous evening: Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. Most Jews would have heard the news on Friday evening, not long after the 87-year-old Supreme Court justice passed away of complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.
admin | September 27, 2020
One of the principal battles at present within the government over what new restrictions to impose due to the massive spike in COVID-19 infections is whether or not to close synagogues on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. But regardless of whatever decision is taken, it is highly unlikely that any order to shutter synagogues over Yom Kippur will be effective in the ultra-Orthodox community.
admin | September 27, 2020
At some point during the solemn Kol Nidre service, Dr. Mark S. Roth, president of Congregation Bnai Moshe, will step up to his designated microphone in a practically empty sanctuary to deliver the synagogues annual fundraising appeal
admin | September 23, 2020
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. In August, Kodak and the Trump administration ran into a scandal, when word leaked that the once-mighty film giant was in contention for a massive and unprecedented $765 million federal loan (to manufacture ingredients for prescription drugs) and its stock price soared, giving rise to speculation about insider shenanigans
admin | September 23, 2020
Unlike the secular New Year, the Jewish New Year, celebrated this weekend, concentrates on repentance, rather than joyous abandon.
admin | September 23, 2020
By ohtadmin | on September 21, 2020 When Rosh Hashanah began Friday, Sept. 18, none of Hungarys 100,000 Jews will be in a synagogue.
admin | September 23, 2020
Rabbi Matt Soffer was leaving his synagogue on Friday evening after leading Rosh Hashanah services alone for a congregation following along online when the text came from his wife: Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. The news brought me to my knees and I wept, Soffer said
admin | September 23, 2020
Jewish representative Nancy Khedouri (second from left) and other Bahraini officials meet with foreign representatives, including U.S. Ambassador Justin Siberell (far left).
admin | September 21, 2020
Cultural anthropologist Alanna Cooper is undertaking a comprehensive study of the objects brought from buildings left behind as Clevelands Jewish congregations have migrated from their synagogue buildings in the center of the city to suburban locales. She was named one of four 2020-21 faculty fellows at Case Western Reserve Universitys Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship.
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