Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward New Jersey condo to resume Shabbat elevator service after settling with residents who sued
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The elevators at Fort Lee, New Jersey, condo building will again stop on every floor during Shabbat after the condo board settled with Orthodox Jewish residents who sued over the service’s cancelation. Dozens of residents charged in a June lawsuit that The Colony was discriminating against…
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News Is it safe to attend Rosh Hashanah services? Should kids? Your COVID-19 High Holiday questions, answered.
(JTA) — For the second year, COVID-19 has made it so Jews who want to attend High Holidays services must undergo a complicated risk calculation. Is it safe to go to synagogue for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? Should I bring my children? Is the shofar — the horn whose blasts punctuate the holy days — a potential…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva student shot and killed during late-night crime spree in Denver
(JTA) — A 19-year-old student at an Orthodox yeshiva in Denver was shot and killed while standing outside his school building early Wednesday morning, according to reports in the local and Orthodox media. The shooting came shortly after two attempted carjackings near Yeshiva Toras Chaim. “At this time, it does not appear that it was…
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Fast Forward Jewish humanitarian groups step in, or try to, as crises unfold in Haiti and Afghanistan
(JTA) — Two major humanitarian crises are eliciting the involvement of Jewish aid organizations, although it is unclear whether much can be done from afar to support Afghans now that the Taliban has retaken their country. An earthquake struck Haiti early Saturday, killing nearly 1,300 with the death toll likely to rise. Meanwhile, a tropical…
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Fast Forward An illicit engagement party roils Australian Jews as new COVID-19 outbreak extends lockdown
(JTA) — Video from a packed engagement party is roiling the Jewish community of Melbourne, Australia, amid a growing outbreak of COVID-19 that has extended yet another stringent lockdown there. Compliance with local rules has been spotty across Melbourne during the latest lockdown, which comes after a year and a half of intense restrictions meant…
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Fast Forward Welsh synagogue’s stained glass windows resurface in British man’s backyard shed
(JTA) — After the Cathedral Road Synagogue in Cardiff, Wales, closed in 1989 amid amid a steep decline in the local Jewish population, its stained-glass windows went missing. Now, some of the once-majestic synagogue’s stained-glass panels have resurfaced — in a backyard chicken-coop renovation that a British garden supplies company just declared best budget shed…
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Fast Forward Los Angeles loses a century-old Jewish deli as Greenblatt’s shutters permanently
(JTA) — Los Angeles’ Greenblatt’s Deli and Fine Wine Shop shuttered abruptly on Wednesday, ending nearly a century-long run for a fixture of Jewish food on Sunset Boulevard. Opened in 1926 and run by a single family since the 1940s, Greenblatt’s described itself as a “wine merchant that fronts as a deli.” Eater reported that…
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Fast Forward Mayim Bialik – neuroscientist, actress and Jewish mom – to be new co-host of ‘Jeopardy!’
(JTA) — “Jeopardy!” is getting its first-ever Jewish host as Sony Picture Television announced that actress Mayim Bialik will host some of the game show’s new prime time specials. In the wake of longtime host Alex Trebek’s death last fall, Bialik had served as one of the show’s celebrity guest hosts for two weeks in…
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