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Due to the coronavirus, virtually all congregations and organizations in the Tampa Bay area have canceled in-person events for the near future and are monitoring the situation regarding events beyond that. Many synagogues are livestreaming their services. Most Chabad centers and Reform and Conservative synagogues are also offering – or making plans to offer – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Due to the coronavirus, synagogues, like all places of gathering, have temporarily closed their doors. But Chabad does not see it as closing doors, but rather as opening new ones. “Hundreds of new synagogues have opened in Orange County,” said Rabbi Pesach Burston, director of Chabad in Orange County. “These synagogues have ‘opened’ in the […]
As soon as a run-of-the-mill soundtrack to New York’s streets, automobiles honking their horns is a method to throw a socially distanced wedding ceremony reception within the time of the coronavirus outbreak. On the eve of a ban on all gatherings within the state battling the fast-spreading COVID-19, a handful of individuals gathered for a […]
The rampant spread of COVID-19 continues to skyrocket, and nowhere in the U.S. has been more affected than New York, the state with the most cases. As of press time, the state had recorded 15,800 positive cases — nearly 50% of the national total. To put this in perspective, New York’s total is now more […]
Rabbi Yehuda Yaakov Refson. (Courtesy of Chabad.org) JTA — Rabbi Yehuda Yaakov Refson had been a vital part of the Jewish community in the British city of Leeds for more than four decades, earning a reputation for being “devoted, caring and principled.” On Sunday, Refson died of the coronavirus, The Jewish Chronicle reported. He was […]
The list of people infected with coronavirus is growing in the French Jewish community, causing countless requests to read tehillim on social networks, reported Actualité Juive, the country’s main Jewish media, on its website. In the group “Jewish Help”, in particular, there is a sad updated list of the sick people. Everyone is asked by […]