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Religious communities on campus are using alternative methods to continue worship during the COVID-19 pandemic Just as buildings across campus are desolate and all but abandoned, so too are the churches, synagogues and temples that surround the University of Minnesota community. Dozens have canceled sermons or moved to online services in response to the coronavirus […]
Temple Hillel Rabbi Steven Graber of the Conservative Jewish synagogue in North Woodmere is speaking to his congregants through a video on YouTube and conducting weekday evening services at 7:30 p.m., and Shabbat services at 6 p.m. “I am teaching the portion of the week on Temple Hillel’s Facebook page,” he said. “More services, classes and […]
Due to the coronavirus, the Eva Schloss event at the Performing Arts Center was cancelled. Nine hundred seats were sold out in record time to watch the event with Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss. Instead only a very small group of people watched the interview at the Chabad of SCV center, while the general public watched […]
Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois and its 50 centers throughout Illinois are making “Seder in a Box” available to the homebound. The Jewish Festival of Passover – April 8-16, is highlighted by the Seder festive meal. Traditionally this is shared by families and communities, under the current circumstance many will be left with no invitations. The […]
I miss my community. For two weeks, my Shabbat has not felt the same. And truth be told, even Fridays have not been the same. So much of what I used to do revolved around my community. Preparing the tasty (may I say legendary?) cholent on Friday. Working with my wife to get everything ready […]
Last year, a friend’s healthy teenage son died suddenly. Her intense grief was compounded, she told me later, by confusion. Why had this happened? She sought out various rabbis and rebbes, made appointments with teachers and mentors, and searched their minds for insight. If they could help her take meaning from her son’s passing, she […]
Besides the coronavirus epidemic, Israel has another crisis on its hands. It’s inside the government and only tangentially related to COVID-19. Here’s the short version: After Israel’s latest election earlier this month — its third in a year — Benny Gantz and his center-left coalition seem closer than ever to garnering enough support to oust […]
Like most religious groups, the Chabad of Venice and North Port closed its temple in mid-March and began offering services and classes on line. “We have gained people,” Rabbi Sholom Schmerling said by phone. “An elderly (90 year-old) lady who went up north and managed to get online, attended our service. “We discussed how to […]
Andre Touboul, a rabbi affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement who led one of France’s most prestigious high schools, has died of the coronavirus in Paris. He was 64. Touboul led Beth Hanna, a Jewish institution of some 1,500 students whose high school was ranked the best in France in 2015 by Le Parisien daily, since […]
“Technology is not here simply to provide utility. It is also meant as a springboard to wonder, allowing us to conceive our reality in ways previously unimaginable. “Technology provides an ever-expanding bank of metaphor to crystallize the most abstract ideas into tangible form. “Don’t think that this is a mere side benefit of technology. On […]