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More schools discouraging COVID-19 testing in New York, New Jersey despite spike
Some Haredi yeshiva day schools in Brooklyn and the New York and New Jersey suburbs are discouraging COVID-19 testing for both teachers and students to try to avoid school closures despite an uptick in cases in Haredi communities broadly. At Bais Yaakov of Borough Park, for example, administrators called teachers individually and asked them to…
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The secret to their success? “Our coexistence.”
This article is adapted from The Branch, a monthly podcast exploring individual relationships between Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians. The Branch is produced by Hadassah and created by Dina Kraft, a journalist based in Tel Aviv. Sign up here to listen to episodes and be notified when new episodes are published. As Ali Ottman,…
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What a post-Ruth Bader Ginsburg court will mean for issues Jews care about
It’s clear that an already conservative-leaning Supreme Court will lean even more conservative once the Senate approves President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the seat occupied by Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died last week. On the face of it, conservatives will hold a 6-3 majority in major cases, a far stronger position than their previous…
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Zoom, Facebook and YouTube cancel Leila Khaled, setting precedent
Something remarkable, maybe even historic, happened when Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled appeared live via YouTube — the site knocked her off. Just 22 minutes into a long-planned Sept. 23 seminar featuring Khaled, the transmission abruptly stopped and a message appeared against a black screen: “This video is unavailable.” Those four words capped an intense, weeks-long…
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After protest, Zoom pulls plug on San Francisco State event with Leila Khaled
Zoom announced late this afternoon that San Francisco State University will not be allowed to use its videoconferencing platform to host an event tomorrow featuring Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled because her participation in the virtual event violates company policy. “Zoom is committed to supporting the open exchange of ideas and conversations, subject to certain limitations…
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RBG cherished the separation of church and state. Will her potential replacement do the same?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing on Friday, September 18 elicited nationwide mourning and an immediate promise by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to vote on a Trump-nominated justice despite the fast-approaching November elections. Approval of Trump’s appointee would cement a conservative majority in the Supreme Court. Democrats and a few Senate Republicans have…
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Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg having a Jewish burial? Here’s what we know so far.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s private funeral service in the Supreme Court on Wednesday was presided over by Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. “Justice Ginsburg, l’dor v’dor, from generation to generation,” said Holtzblatt. She also sang Psalm 23 in Hebrew. Rabbi Holtzblatt’s husband, Ari, was a clerk to Justice Ginsburg in…
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L.A. congregations create a pandemic-safe ‘shofar wave’ across the city
On Sunday afternoon at the busy intersection of Pico Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard, Temple Beth Am congregant Sandra Lepson was among those who’d turned out to hear the shofar in a public space with other people while maintaining social distancing. “I thought this was a really cool idea and I wanted to be witness…
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‘A modern prophet:’ How rabbis reacted to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
Addressing her congregation virtually on the first morning of Rosh Hashanah, Cantor Meredith Greenberg of Temple Ner Tamid, a Reform congregation in Bloomfield, N.J., sang the traditional blessing that precedes the reading of the haftarah. But what happened next was anything but traditional. Instead of chanting that week’s haftarah portion, Greenberg and the synagogue’s rabbi,…
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ICYMI: Catch up with the Forward’s coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
We know many Forward readers were offline for Rosh Hashanah and may not have seen our coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death over the weekend. So we put together this guide to the stories we have published — and some of our favorite Jewish stories from while the justice is alive. Like most news outlets,…
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I wrote a song about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and she gave it her ‘hechsher’
The 8×11 tan envelope came via regular mail, which felt old-fashioned, even archaic. Because most of what arrives snail mail is junk mail at this point, I didn’t pay attention at first. Then I saw the return address: Supreme Court of the United States. Inside I found a document I’ll treasure to this day: the…
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