Florida Jewish day school teacher dies after long battle with COVID-19
“I’m going to fight this. I’m coming home to Christopher and to you!” Christopher is his four-year-old son.
Contemporary Jewish Museum welcomes back in-person guests
The pandemic closed the doors of this Bay Area attraction, but now ‘people finally can see art in a safe space that isn’t in front of their computer.’
Your guide to 2021 (virtual) Yom HaShoah commemorations
Despite a year of isolation and pandemic restrictions, Jewish communities around the country are finding ways to come together for Yom HaShoah, the annual commemoration to honor the more than six million Jews murdered by Nazis and Nazi collaborators during the Holocaust.
The Miami Jewish Film Festival goes hybrid for 2021
The world’s largest Jewish film festival will get even larger this year. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, the Miami Jewish Film Festival will be a hybrid live and virtual event this year. This new format will enable a potentially nationwide audience the opportunity to view some of the festival’s 145 selected films online for free.
Can shrimp and crab make your kosher Sabra hummus Salmonella-free?
A biopolymer found in the exoskeletons of crustaceans like shrimp and crabs has been found to reduce Salmonella cells.
Your 2021 guide to virtual Passover seders
From coast to coast, here’s list of virtual Passover seders you’ll love.
Boulder Jewish community responds to tragic mass shooting
The virtual event will include rabbis, singers, and musicians from congregations in the Boulder area who will share prayers and thoughts.
Jewish GOP leader wants Republican men to reconsider getting the COVID-19 vaccine
The Jewish vice chair of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee, Tom Mountain, is using his personal experience with COVID-19 to appeal to his “fellow Republican men” to get vaccinated.
Chicago to determine the fate of Polish-Jewish monument in racial reckoning
A public monument featuring Revolutionary War financier Haym Saloman, a Polish-Jewish American businessman, may be removed from where it stands in Chicago’s Heald Square. The monument, along with 40 others, is under review by the Chicago Monument Project as part of the city’s effort to “address the hard truths of Chicago’s racial history.”
Petition to cut ties with Israeli institutions circulates at University of Illinois at Chicago
The petition cites “Israeli apartheid,” blocked access to health care for Palestinians, and Islamophobia.