The coronavirus pandemic is changing our world. In addition to the devastating loss and the economic recession that has already started to hit, there is the impact on our institutions, which will be huge. Which will prevail? What aspects of…
How the pandemic will change Jewish life
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Opinion How the pandemic will change Jewish philanthropy
Previous Article Next Article New York, December 1st, 2021 My dear colleague, I understand you’ve been locked up in an Ashram for the last two years and you’ve missed the pandemic. No great loss, believe me. Lucky you to come down from the Himalayas and be vaccinated right away at the Gates Center in Katmandu!…
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Opinion Chabad emissaries are stepping into communal gaps – for good
Previous Article Next Article The Brooklyn Botanical Garden is a stone’s throw from my house. I pass its gated entrance on my walks along Eastern Parkway several times a week and promise myself to visit soon. But the last time I strolled under its gorgeous cherry trees was two years ago. It’s a little like…
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Opinion Online Judaism is an echo chamber. Will we ever see those we disagree with again?
Previous Article Next Article I’m hardly the first to observe that the speed with which so much Jewish communal life leaped online in the first weeks of shutdown was head-snapping. I’ve been to more Zoom classes, Zoom Shabbat services, Zoom concerts and ceremonies, more Zoom funerals and shivahs and bar mitzvahs in six weeks than…
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Opinion Our history is full of sorrow and salvation. This won’t change us.
Previous Article Next Article How will the coronavirus outbreak transform Jewish life? I think that’s the wrong question. In our long history we have weathered many storms without being fundamentally changed. We’re still here, as Mark Twain pointed out, after all the great empires of the ancient world were relegated to the history books. We’ve…
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Opinion The end of Jewish day school
Previous Article Next Article In late summer and early spring of each year, as registration fees, payments and tuition schedules are due, conversations about the “day-school crisis” light up Modern Orthodox social media. Devastated parents begin to bemoan the astronomical cost of private school tuition on top of the already high cost of living for…
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Opinion We will cherish our shuls – and the homes that replaced them during this time
Previous Article Next Article I’m not into prognosticating (I’ve tried, to poor results) so I don’t feel confident making predictions about how our Jewish world will be different when we emerge from our figurative holes, hopefully soon. But I have, if not prophecies, then hopes. And they are predicated on what our collective confinement should,…
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Opinion Can Jewish journalism survive? It’s up to you.
Previous Article Next Article To understand how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect Jewish media, just look at non-Jewish media. For years now, the forces that have wreaked havoc, forced change and inspired innovation in the general media have done exactly the same in the confines of Jewish media. Tens of thousands of journalists had already…
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Opinion Like COVID-19, anti-Semitism is adaptive, insidious, easily finds new hosts, and has no real ‘cure’
Previous Article Next Article Aside from the medical and economic uncertainties we face in these hard times, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare for the Jewish community the looming threats we face from anti-Semitism and extremism. While anti-Semitism was serious before the COVID-19 crisis – See: Pittsburgh, Poway, Monsey, Jersey City – it has become…
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