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Our Passover is not canceled. But it will be different from all other Passovers.
I just invited more than 30 family members to a Passover Seder. The responses are trickling in slowly but surely. The youngest will be about two months old and the oldest 99. No, we won’t be opening our actual door for anyone other than Elijah. This, dear reader, is our first Virtual Seder. This year’s…
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Israeli EMS leader intubated in Miami hospital with coronavirus: health minister sidelined us
Eli Beer had been traveling around the globe trying to raise money to help Israeli patients who fall gravely ill with coronavirus. Then he became one of them. Beer, 46, is the founder and president of United Hatzalah, a non-profit, volunteer Emergency Medical Service organization. A week ago, he was hospitalized in Miami with what…
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‘I hope I can get through this:’ Loan societies help people hurt by virus
Dasha Fishman works at a not-for-profit organization that provides services to children and adults with developmental disabilities. The job doesn’t pay much, around $33,000 – it’s not enough to cover the cost of her rent, utilities, or student loans, so she supplements her income by working directly with special-needs individuals in their homes after work….
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How you can help this Jewish deli deliver chicken soup to health care workers
When Steve Israel was in self-quarantine in New York, he ordered some comfort food from Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant & Caterers (“We Cure Our Own Corned Beef, Our Chicken Soup Cures Everything Else!”). While he was eating, a member of his family who is also a doctor told him that hospital staffers treating patients with…
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To stay or go? For Millennials, a dilemma of being alone vs. risking infecting parents
I was in a new apartment, on a new block. I started noticing all the weird sounds of my building in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights – the clacking of the radiator, the groaning and banging of heating pipes. Out my window, I could see into other peoples’ lives, people like me who were…
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Does Cuomo’s ban on gatherings exempt houses of worship?
On Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he would ban all “non-essential” gatherings in an executive order, the latest step in the state’s increasingly stringent and sweeping rules to enforce social distancing and limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. “This is not life as usual and accept it and realize it and…
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Jewish content abounds online in the age of corona. These 6 offerings rock.
After almost 2 solid weeks stuck at home, relying only on Netflix for online sustenance, I was in desperate need of some variety — and I’m not talking about binge-watching. My next chapter still had to be online, but it had to be equal parts active, intellectual and contemplative. And it had to be Jewish,…
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Are these the end of days for the Holy Land (theme park)?
The Jerusalem Temple may soon crumble – again. At least the monumental, half-scale, six-story replica of the facade built for the Holy Land Experience biblical theme park in – where else? – Orlando, the kitsch capital of the world. Trinity Broadcasting Network owns the 15-acre attraction, a recreation of first-century Jerusalem, which sparked controversy in…
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Influenza 1918, a look back: Deutsch Bros. Furniture gives flu prevention tips
On October 6th, 1918, the Forverts published NYC’s health commissioner’s latest rules to help stop the spread of influenza. All stores except for groceries were ordered to close no later than four pm. The Forverts, likely aware of skeptic LES locals — new immigrants and do-geboyrene (American born) folks alike — emphasized this decision was…
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Right before Shabbat, Cuomo bans gatherings, and a Hasidic town cancels services
Shabbat, the time when observant Jews typically gather together to pray and socialize, is coming fast. And across the Hasidic world, there are signs that more communities — but not all — will be obeying the strict social distancing rules announced by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Friday afternoon. The rules include a ban on…
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Virtual pastoring, and the texts that give them comfort: 19 rabbis (and 2 cantors) on spiritual leadership through coronavirus
They are our teachers, our counselors, our spiritual leaders, our neighbors. Rabbis and cantors help us navigate the most important parts of our lives, from birth to Bnei Mitzvah, marriage (and divorce) to death and its aftermath. We rely on them, especially, in times of crisis like the coronavirus pandemic. As the pandemic’s revolutionary impact…
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