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Without a congregation to lead following the coronavirus outbreak, Dollard-des-Ormeaux Rabbi Leibel Fine wasn’t about to deny his eldest son, Menachem Mendel, his bar mitzvah celebration. With social gatherings prohibited in an effort to stop COVID-19 from spreading, Fine, the rabbi at Chabad of Dollard, postponed his son’s celebration slightly more than a week ago. […]
On March 24, an Italian artist unveiled a new painting, featuring Jews killing a Christian child. The Jerusalem Post reported that Giovanni Gasparro’s “The Martyrdom of St. Simon of Trento in accordance with Jewish ritual murder” depicted “a group of hook-nosed Jews with peyot and yellow, uneven teeth strangling the child and draining his blood.” […]
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — This year, many people will celebrate Passover and host their Seder dinners in a different way due to COVID-19 restrictions. This year, people can order Seder to go boxes from Chabad of Peoria that have all the essentials needed to celebrate at home. Passover, an eight day celebration, begins on the […]
In a village deep in Poland, there lived a rabbi who couldn’t remember the last time he was paid. He led a congregation of poor peasants, for whom their rabbi’s salary was their children’s portion of bread, and so, the rabbi and his family lived in poverty themselves, unable to escape the gnawings of hunger. […]
On Passover, Jews of Ashkenazic descent (and some Sefardic communities as well) do not eat anything that is considered “kitniyot.” But before we get to peanuts, let’s give a bit of background. What Are Kitniyot? “Kitniyot” is generally translated as “beans” or “legumes.” However, in this context, it is not an exact translation. The Code […]
A chartered El Al flight from Bogota evacuated nearly 70 Israelis from Colombia on Thursday morning as most flights were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.Foreign Minister Israel Katz specifically ordered his ministry to organize the flight to help Israeli backpackers who were unable to find flights out of the country. The flight is expected […]
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 […]