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For young Jews with time on their hands, new service program proves a boon
Every morning, Isabel Kornman, 24, puts on a mask and walks from her Washington, D.C., apartment to a nearby non-profit called So Others Might Eat. Stationed a safe distance from the few other volunteers allowed inside the building, she spends the day preparing food for SOME’s food bank and sorting the mail it receives for…
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Q&A: Volunteering with chevra kadisha in the era of coronavirus
Before the coronavirus pandemic, Deborah Drillman, 54, was one of 55 women volunteering with the Chevra Kadisha of Queens and Long Island, an organization that prepares deceased people for burial according to Jewish tradition. Now, as the virus ravages Jewish communities in and around New York City, their work is more necessary than ever. Because…
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Merav Ben-David, Israeli-born scientist, wants to be the next Senator from…Wyoming?
It’s hard to find a Democrat in Wyoming, let alone one who has won a Federal election. It’s even harder to find a Jew in Wyoming, let alone one who has even tried to win a Federal election. All that makes Merav Ben-David one of the most unusual candidates in the current political season. She’s…
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Jewish charities fear budget cuts are coming as New York State slows government aid
The YM and YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood has distributed more than $230,000 in emergency cash assistance since the start of the pandemic. At its peak, the Y’s meal delivery program prepared and dropped off 300 hot meals each day. It opened a childcare center for first responders. It performed wellness checks for the…
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Philadelphia NAACP head apologizes for anti-Semitic image, not his mosque’s anti-Semitic Facebook page
The Philadelphia president of the NACCP will not be resigning—at least for now. Despite calls for the resignation of Rodney Muhammad for posting an anti-Semitic meme on Facebook, the national NAACP said it has decided with him to “meet with community leaders and faith leaders to open a dialogue” and to also launch “national conversations…
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On Instagram, Jessica Yellin wants to give news straight
When Jessica Yellin received word that the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci had agreed to appear on her Instagram program, “News Not Noise,” she wasn’t inclined to believe it. “I was like, ‘What do you mean? Are you sure? Can you send me the email? Are you sure?’” Yellin recalled telling…
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David Galante, 94, Auschwitz Survivor Who Taught About The Holocaust After A 50-Year Silence
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — It took 50 years for David Galante to begin talking about his experience at Auschwitz. Born to a Sephardic family in Rhodes in 1925, Galante studied in a Jewish school as a child, learning Italian, French and Hebrew. He was a teenager when he arrived at Auschwitz in the summer of…
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Why is anti-Semitism in Germany on the rise?
Read this article in Yiddish. A year ago, I was waiting inside a crowded German bus station with my classmate from Trier University. “Don’t talk to me in Hebrew here,” she said. “You never know who’ll recognize that it’s a Jewish language.” I myself am not Jewish, so I often ask her questions about Jewish…
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Alarmed by ‘death threat’ video, Orthodox Jews try to de-platform fiery ‘folk preachers’
Explosions, thunderstorms, burning lava, tsunamis, clips from apocalyptic Hollywood films — and a scrolling list of the names of 14 prominent rabbis, including former U.K. Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi Efrem Goldberg of Boca Raton, Fla. and Rabbi David Wolpe of Los Angeles. “Every minute that you listen to them will destroy your soul…
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Just how anti-Semitic is QAnon?
Officials at the Republican National Convention dropped “angel mom” Mary Ann Mendoza from the speakers’ list after The Daily Beast discovered she had retweeted the antisemitic conspiracy theories put out by QAnon. QAnon is a conspiracy theorist whose postings concoct a smorgasbord of conspiracy theories, like Satanic child-sex trafficking rings, ritual murder of children and…
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Republican senator deletes ad that made Jewish opponent’s nose bigger
Sen. David Perdue of Georgia deleted a Facebook ad targeting his Jewish election opponent, Jon Ossoff, that appeared to have been altered to make Ossoff’s nose bigger. The ad called for donations to Perdue, a Republican, by claiming that “Democrats are trying to buy Georgia.” It uses black-and-white photos of Ossoff and Senate Minority Leader…
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