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Missed the Seder because you caught Covid? You weren’t alone.
I strolled into my parents’ home Friday afternoon about six hours before Seder, only to find them seated in the living room looking rather concerned. “Molly has Covid,” my mom said. Oh. My sister had gotten in from New York the night before. My parents had picked her up. Then she came down with a…
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Al Aqsa clashes injure more than 150 as Ramadan and Passover coincide
This article originally appeared on Haaretz.com. To get Haaretz’s Daily Brief newsletter delivered to your inbox, click here. At least 152 Palestinians and three Israeli police officers were injured in clashes Friday at Al Aqsa Mosque, the Muslim holy site that includes the Temple Mount, the worst skirmishing in Jerusalem since the Muslim holy month…
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‘There was nothing else to talk about’: How Ukrainian and Russian Jews sharing an apartment in Jerusalem are handling the war
JERUSALEM — Olga Stalgorova woke up Feb. 24 to find her friend Yulia Borysenko crying in the kitchen of their apartment in a downtown Jerusalem hotel. “They attacked us,” said Borysenko, a 26-year-old from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. “They,” of course, meant Russia. Which is where Stalgarova, 24, grew up. The two women — one from…
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Reform movement sends mixed messages in response to harassment report
The Union for Reform Judaism pledged this week to make improvements to the way it handles sexual harassment, but some members of the community say the announced changes do not go far enough. The URJ, the congregational arm of the largest Jewish denomination in North America, released an investigation in February detailing its past failures…
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In L.A., a new exhibit on the American deli reveals some Jewish truths
In the 1930s, there were 5,000 delicatessens in New York City. By way of comparison, Starbucks, which seems to be on every street corner, has 241 outlets in New York. And those delis were much more than just places to get coffee or a pastrami. “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” a new exhibit at the…
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Pioneering Orthodox sex therapist accused of harassment
Updated April 13, 9:15 p.m ET with statements from Sharon Weiss-Greenberg. Multiple claims of harassment have emerged against a pioneering figure of women’s empowerment from former employees of the organization she helped found. Bat Sheva Marcus, a renowned sex therapist who was the president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, was accused in scathing Facebook…
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What if I hadn’t slept in? A gunman shot up my train this morning
The 36th Street subway station where 10 people were shot and wounded during Tuesday morning’s commute is a place I pass through nearly every day. It is one stop from the Orthodox neighborhood of Borough Park, where I live, and on my commute to Lower Manhattan I often switch at that station from the D…
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Noa Tishby, Israel’s new envoy, says anti-Zionism is antisemitism “100%”
While battling a new wave of terror and dealing with a complicated political crisis, the Israeli government on Monday officially established a new envoy to combat antisemitism, appointing an actor, author and pro-Israel activist who lives in Los Angeles to the unpaid post. The new envoy, Noa Tishby, said in a Zoom interview that she…
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As in-person Seders return, some vulnerable Jews are being left behind
Jacob Speaks will never forget the Passover Seder where one of the attendees taped the afikoman to a mirror. His niece kept walking right past, but did not see it even as the adults exclaimed “hotter!” and “colder!” Years later, it remains a family joke: “You know, if you can’t find your keys but they’re…
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‘I have people who support me’: How a Ukrainian refugee found shelter at an Auschwitz education center
Oksana Naumchuk was supposed to host friends visiting from Poland in her Kyiv apartment this May. All she had to do before then: Finish renovating her kitchen. Now, Naumchuk doesn’t know when she’ll return to Ukraine. “I hate this word ‘refugee,’” she said. “But this is how it is.” Naumchuk, 26, is one of an…
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Chicago teacher taking indefinite leave of absence following Nazi propaganda assignment
A teacher who had assigned eighth graders to create Nazi propaganda posters as part of a Holocaust education unit, prompting complaints from the lone Jewish student in the class and her mother, is taking an “indefinite leave of absence,” according to a letter from the school’s principal. The social studies teacher, Tiffanie Reschke, had written…
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