A minor league ballpark in New Jersey was transformed into a large synagogue for Yom Kippur. About 1,000 congregants from Temple Har Shalom, a Reform congregation in Warren, spread throughout the TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater Township for Yom Kippur services, WABC-TV reported. The worshippers were able to sit socially distanced but also see each…
Rabbi Yossi Kastan, the head of a Jewish day school in suburban Baltimore, says he’s “always wanted to change the world.” Last week, he did precisely that for an ailing 2-year-old girl. On Sept. 21, the day after Rosh Hashanah as well as the Fast of Gedaliah, Kastan donated his bone marrow to the girl,…
New York City’s one-day positive COVID-19 test rate jumped to 3.25%, its highest rate since June, with much of the new cases attributable to zip codes with large Orthodox Jewish communities, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. The high test rate portends a shutdown of the city’s nascent public school reopening plan…
(JTA) — The managing editor of The Miami Herald’s Spanish-language publication el Nuevo Herald has resigned after the publication of an anti-Semitic and racist column in an advertising insert. Nancy San Martin, El Nuevo Herald’s managing editor, resigned and Aminda Marqués González, the executive editor and publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald,…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has pulled out of event honoring Yitzhak Rabin, Americans for Peace Now president and chief executive officer, Hadar Susskind, confirmed to the Forward Saturday. Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian advocates reacted with outrage on social media to the New York congresswoman’s planned appearance at a the event marking the 25th anniversary of the slain…
Enter “Jewish baby carriages” into a Google Search and the first results to appear are images of ovens. Historical images of Jewish women pushing strollers and more recent images of Hasidic Jewish women are interspersed with disturbing photos of large black ovens. One of the results depicts a smoking oven accompanied by text that reads:…
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced she will take part in an Americans for Peace Now event honoring Yitzhak Rabin.The virtual event is scheduled to take place Oct. 20, and will celebrate the life and legacy of the former Prime Minister of Israel on the 25th anniversary of his death. The announcement comes as a surprise to…
The Oxford English Dictionary’s online word of the day is kibitz. However, the dictionary’s first definition is a bit jarring for Americans who are accustomed to the using the word as a colloquialism for warm, friendly chatter. Instead, the OED defines it as “To watch (a card game or card player) as a spectator, typically…
Armani/Kaf, a 40-seat kosher meat restaurant, will open this month in the Burj Khalifa under the supervision of Rabbi Levi Duchman, who lives in Dubai. The restaurant will be on the ground floor of the world’s tallest building where the Armani hotel has other dining options, and will also offer room service in the Armani…
(JTA) — Israelis are facing a much more restrictive general lockdown, including the closure of synagogues, to prevent the record spread of the coronavirus. The stricter measures approved early Thursday would go into effect hours before Yom Kippur, which starts on Sunday evening. The full Knesset was set to vote on the new restrictions later in…
(JTA) — A Jewish television commentator said there is “no difference” between the rhetoric of President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, and Jews who support Trump “are not looking back at our history.” Donnie Deutsch, a former advertising executive and liberal TV personality from New York City, made the comments Wednesday on “Morning Joe” on…
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