Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at pink@forward.com or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
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Fast Forward More than 100 Jewish leaders urge Cuomo not to undo bail reform
More than 100 New York Jewish organizations and leaders, including dozens of rabbis, signed a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo urging him not to undo the state’s bail reform law. “To undo these measures now, returning us to jailing hundreds or thousands of presumptively innocent New Yorkers who have not been convicted or had a…
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News Quarantined college kids find meetups, memes and flirting at Hillel on Facebook
With classes cancelled around the country, Jewish college students are unable to meet their Jewish friends at Hillel for Shabbat dinner, social justice projects or just to hang out. But in less than a week, a virtual community with nearly 8,000 members has emerged to fill that gap: a Facebook group called Zoom University Hillel….
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Fast Forward America’s biggest yeshiva closes as multiple COVID cases confirmed in Lakewood
Multiple coronavirus diagnoses have been confirmed in Lakewood, N.J., The Lakewood Scoop reported Thursday. Lakewood has one of the highest concentrations of Jews in the United States, with an estimated 59% of the population Jewish, according to a 2011 study. While many of Lakewood’s synagogues had shut down as the coronavirus pandemic spread throughout the…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi gets 10% in Republican primary – even after state party warned voters
A Holocaust denier got 10% of the votes in an Illinois Republican congressional primary — even after the state Republican Party undertook a major publicity push urging voters not to nominate him. Arthur Jones, a former leader of the American Nazi Party and frequent political candidate, was the Republican nominee for the Third Congressional District…
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Fast Forward How one synagogue is staying open: Staggered prayer times
Synagogues around the country have shut their doors to daily because of the coronavirus pandemic, but some, particularly among Hasidic and other Orthodox strains of Judaism, are taking extraordinary measures to find ways to stay open. One Orthodox synagogue in Lakewood, New Jersey — which has one of the highest concentrations of Jews in the…
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Fast Forward Miami-area rabbi tests positive for coronavirus
The rabbi of one of the biggest Orthodox synagogues in the Miami area has tested positive for coronavirus, the Miami Herald reported Sunday. Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar of the Shul of Bal Harbour told Bal Harbour Mayor Gabriel Groisman that he had “mild symptoms” and was self-isolating, Groisman said in a statement. As a public…
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Fast Forward Natan Sharansky gives quarantined youngsters tips for surviving solitary
Students at SAR High School and SAR Academy, private Jewish day schools in New York, are under home quarantine and learning remotely after at least 29 people associated with the school were diagnosed with coronavirus. In order to help the students cope with being unable to leave their homes, the schools brought in a virtual…
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News How synagogues across the country are planning for Shabbat despite coronavirus
One of the most important concepts in Judaism is pikuach nefesh, the principle that preserving life trumps almost every other religious rule. Accordingly, in response to the coronavirus, rabbis across the country are doing what had previously been unimaginable – telling community members not to come to Shabbat services in order to slow the spread…
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