admin | May 4, 2020
CHICAGO (JTA) I thought I was going to be spending this spring promoting my new book, which articulates a distinct vision for Judaism that illustrates how people can deepen their connection to Judaism by performing selected rituals consistently and attaching a personal meaning to them. But as the coronavirus sweeps the globe, causing a paradigm shift for everyone, instead I am spending my time mastering the finer points of Zoom technology so I can teach my students online. It wasnt lost on me that this technology allowed me to make lemonade out of lemons by doing a virtual launch of Remix Judaism: Preserving Tradition in a Diverse World, enabling family and friends from across the world to participate
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admin | May 4, 2020
The temporally distant and far-flung galaxy of Star Wars is, like the Torah, a text touched by many hands over the years.
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admin | May 4, 2020
R Yehosef Yosef Halevi Dachuch, a member of the Chabad community in Bnei Brak, was niftar due to the coronavirus on Wednesday. R Dachuch was born in Yemen and made aliyah to Israel with his family. As a bochur, he learned in a Chabad yeshivah in Lod and later moved to Bnei Brak
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admin | May 4, 2020
Photo Credit: Jewish Press You shall love your fellow as yourself (Vayikra 19:18). The Talmud (Yevamos 62b) relates that R Akiva had 12,000 pairs of students, all of whom died between Pesach and Shavuos because they didnt treat each other with respect.
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admin | April 29, 2020
When Prof.
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admin | April 29, 2020
By Rabbi Dr.
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admin | April 29, 2020
A call went out for volunteers, and I answered. I wrote this on Friday, the day after my first shift at Boston Hope, a 1,000-bed field hospital built this month at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center to treat COVID-19 patients.
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admin | April 29, 2020
A large crowd of Hasidim clashed with police in Beit Shemesh on Tuesday, three days into a government-mandated closure of two of the citys ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. Dozens of black-clad men screamed Nazis as law enforcement officers attempted to shut down Ateret Yehoshua Talmud Torah, an Orthodox elementary school in the Hasidic enclave of Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet, which had remained open in violation of Health Ministry directives intended to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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admin | April 29, 2020
Not many online cooking classes start with a plea to give tzedakah. But then, not many online cooking classes are taught by a Chabad rabbi.
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admin | April 29, 2020
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu confirmed on Monday evening that a decision has been made to re-open schools on Sunday in a limited fashion, beginning with children in kindergarten and 1st through 3rd grades. The decision is subject to change if infection rates begin to increase before then, with a situational assessment to take place on Friday.
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