News

Featured Most recent

3914 results total, viewing 51 - 60

A view of orthodox jewish men wearing mask during Passover in Williamsburg in Brooklyn New York USA during coronavirus pandemic on April 11, 2020. (Photo by John Nacion/NurPhoto)

Brooklyn Hasidic neighborhoods see spike in at-home deaths during coronavirus crisis

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 … more

BEN SALES | 4/20/20

Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day torch-lighting at Yad Vashem held without audience

JERUSALEM (JTA) – The coronavirus couldn’t dim the annual torch-lighting ceremony in Israel for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah. In a … more

MARCY OSTER | 4/20/20

Anti-Semitic hate speech has risen sharply since pandemic and must be rejected, UN official says

(JTA) – Anti-Semitic hate speech has risen dramatically since the start of the coronavirus crisis and must be rejected, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on freedom of religion or … more

MARCY OSTER | 4/20/20

This year’s Celebrate Israel parade is called off as New York City cancels events through June

(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 … more

SHIRA HANAU | 4/20/20

Rabbi Danny Burkeman has seen a big turnout at virtual services, which he leads from home.

With services online, many synagogues are seeing greater attendance

(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 … more

JOSEFIN DOLSTEN | 4/20/20

Netanyahu and Gantz sign agreement for ‘national emergency government’

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz signed a deal Monday [April 20] to form a “national emergency government” that keeps … more

MARCY OSTER | 4/20/20

Emergency gifts help community

The Emergency Relief and Recovery Campaign, led by the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, is off to a fast start, raising over $160,000 in its first three weeks. More than 90 gifts have come in to support the efforts to provide for immediate needs such as food and long-term needs such as assistance with utilities, rent and other emerging needs. more

SARA MASRI | 4/17/20

Ready to discuss what you’ve been reading?

On Tuesday, April 28, The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island will host the first session of its virtual book club. The first book to be discussed will be Yiftach Reicher Atir’s fiction novel, “The English Teacher” (Penguin Books, 2016), which tells the story of former Mossad agent, Rachel Goldschmitt. more

MICHAEL SCHEMAILLE | 4/17/20

Dominic Raab, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs arrives for the daily Coronavirus briefing at No.10 Downing Street on April 07, 2020 in London, England.

Dominic Raab, whose father was a Jewish refugee, is Britain’s acting prime minister with Boris Johnson hospitalized

(JTA) — The United Kingdom last had a Jewish prime minister in 1880, the final year of Benjamin Disraeli‘s service.Now, with the coronavirus sending Boris Johnson to the hospital, the … more

Cnaan Liphshiz | 4/7/20

Setting the stage for Passover with matzah, at the Wood River Jewish Community's Hebrew school.

Sun Valley, Idaho, a celebrity destination, is a coronavirus hot spot. Here’s how the local Jewish community is coping.

(JTA) — Even before the arrival of the coronavirus upended Passover plans across the world, the Wood River Jewish Community’s Seder was going to be different this year.For the first time, … more

Penny Schwartz | 4/7/20