( JTA ) — At the beginning of her day, Tal Lee will see as many as hundreds of cars snake around the church parking lot where she is helping to conduct coronavirus tests.
Dressed in two face …
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Josefin Dolsten
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5/15/20
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(JTA) — Last year saw the most anti-Semitic incidents in the United States since at least 1979, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The 2,107 incidents recorded in 2019 reflect a 12% …
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Ben Sales
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5/12/20
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Among the most disturbing spectacles over the months since the coronavirus was unleashed on the world have been the attacks on haredi Orthodox Jews in both Israel and the United …
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Rabbi Avi Shafran
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4/30/20
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( JTA ) – Andrew Parver’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Sunday.
That’s when Parver, the director of operations at the Hebrew Free Burial Association in New York City, put out a call …
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Shira Hanau
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4/29/20
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(JTA) — On Monday, there’s a Jewish space that hosts two Torah classes and the taping of a podcast.
On Wednesday, the space offers a Jewish TV show for kids and a discussion of Jewish …
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Ben Sales
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4/27/20
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — For the folks who monitor anti-Semitism, a pandemic-induced nightmare nearly became real this month.
A Massachusetts man was arrested for trying to set off a firebomb near …
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Ron Kampeas
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4/24/20
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NEW YORK (JTA) – Two Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhoods that have been hard hit in the coronavirus pandemic have seen a sharp rise in people dying at home, according to a new data analysis.
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BEN SALES
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4/20/20
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(JTA) – Among the many signs of summer that the coronavirus pandemic is silencing: the annual parade that draws tens of thousands of supporters of Israel to New York City’s Fifth …
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SHIRA HANAU
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4/20/20
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(JTA) – Mike Finesilver started attending daily services for the first time since his bar mitzvah shortly after joining Congregation Beth El in 2012.
Praying every day with the same small …
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JOSEFIN DOLSTEN
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4/20/20
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BY BEN HARRIS
(JTA) – Before everything changed, Jalna Silverstein and Asael Papour were planning a wedding much like many other Jewish nuptials on the Upper West Side of …
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BEN HARRIS
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4/5/20
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