Susan Josephs
By Susan Josephs
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News Coronavirus leads to a boom for Tivnu domestic gap year
By her junior year of high school, Bella Saunders already knew that she wanted to take time off before college and apply her “skills, passions and Judaism” to a non-academic setting. But when the coronavirus pandemic disrupted her senior year at Atholton High School in Columbia, Md., the 17-year-old Saunders became even more certain of…
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News On Pico-Robertson, kosher restaurants adjust, and struggle
In Alain Cohen’s new normal, loyal customers still walk into Got Kosher? to pick up their Shabbat take-out meals, buy his famous pretzel challahs and engage in masked conversation. But Cohen must also satisfy a whole new category of customers that will only do non-contact curbside pick-up or delivery. Sometimes, he said, “They ask us…
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News In Minnesota, an ancient Jewish mandate gives impetus to rent breaks
When coronavirus shut down Minnesota, Aaron Berc kept hearing story after story about people that could no longer pay their rent if they wanted to feed their families. As a community organizer for the St. Paul-based social justice organization Jewish Community Action, he had also been exploring how Jewish text study could bolster his organizing…
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