While this will be a Pesach like none we’ve experienced, we believe with a full heart that, with Hashem’s help, we will be privileged to joyfully fulfill each of its attendant …
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By Ed Weintrob, Editor-Publisher
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4/1/20
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horodoker, writing from Tiberias in the aftermath of an epidemic in 1786, cited Proverb 22:3: “A clever …
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By Rabbi Yossi Marcus, Chabad of the North Peninsula (Calif.)
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3/30/20
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I’ve been preparing for the COVID-19 pandemic for the past year. No, I am not an alarmist, prophet or a hoarder. …
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By Sari Kahn
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3/29/20
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The UJA-Federation of New York has pledged more than $23 million in immediate financial assistance to help New Yorkers affected by coronavirus.
The grants …
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3/25/20
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Stuart Richner is president of Richner Communications Inc (RCI), parent company of The Jewish Star. Richner is publisher of Herald Community Newspapers …
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By Stuart Richner
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3/18/20
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Has the world ever been this perfectly synchronized? Whether you wake up in an isolated hamlet in one part of the globe or a teeming city in another, whatever your language or your time zone, …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/25/20
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After Shaul Moshi died last week in Los Angeles at the age of 94, over 100 people gathered at his home for the traditional shiva minyan.
It was Wednesday night — before the …
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By Ben Harris, JTA
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3/25/20
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Some 38,000 people work at Jewish community centers across North America, staffing preschools, camps, gyms, classes, activities for seniors and more. Because of the coronavirus crisis, a lot of them …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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3/25/20
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Achiezer has been in high gear throughout the coronavirus crisis …
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By The Jewish Star
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3/25/20
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In late February, I flew to Long Island to help my 77-year-old mom following her knee replacement surgery. I arrived in the United States …
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By Meryl Jacobs
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3/25/20
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