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Fast Forward Brooklyn mom of 6 ordered off JetBlue flight after 2-Year-old couldn’t keep mask on
(JTA) — A Brooklyn mother traveling alone with her six children was ordered off a JetBlue airplane after her 2-year-old refused to keep on her mask. Chaya Bruck was traveling home on a flight from Orlando, Florida, to Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday. When she refused to leave the plane, citing the airlines own regulations,…
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News Some of L.A.’s Orthodox day schools set to reopen—as ‘camps’
With Los Angeles County banning even private schools from opening because of the coronavirus pandemic biting into the fall semester, at least four Orthodox day schools in the area have found a way to legally bring students to campus. They are calling it camp. The schools have opened or plan to open soon for optional…
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News Jewish nursing homes struggle with extra costs from COVID-19
Jewish nursing homes are hurting. Even as some of their clients fight the coronavirus itself, the homes are struggling with the extra financial burdens that come from preventing the virus’s spread: •Miami Jewish Health, the largest nursing home in southeast Florida, has laid off about 30 employees and furloughed another 10. Though it has received…
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News New COVID-19 cases in Orthodox communities stoke fears
(JTA) – Over the past week, the reports have come fast and furious. One overnight sports camp for boys in Pennsylvania had an outbreak of COVID-19, sending eight boys back to their home communities on Long Island and several more to Baltimore, where others had contracted the virus after attending weddings or coming into contact…
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News How one woman’s need for toilet paper turned into a charity serving thousands
Last March, Liron Samara, an Israeli-born psychotherapist living in Los Angeles, read an article about an elderly woman who couldn’t find toilet paper at the store. It was shortly after the coronavirus pandemic had turned toilet paper into a rare and valuable commodity. Samara had just lost her 89-year-old grandmother in February, and she wanted…
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Community Jewish compassion isn’t just for Jews
At the end of the summer, synagogue pews tend to thin out. Congregants (and rabbis) are often on vacation, taking a break before the High Holidays. Some of us secular-cultural Jews who don’t attend synagogue in the first place also tend to detach from our engagement with organized Jewish life. This summer proves even more…
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Community There are some we won’t be seeing after lockdown?
As quarantine drags into its sixth month, I find myself missing my friends more than ever. I long for the days when I could fly across the country, eat at restaurants, and ultimately feel a sense of safety around me. My friends are spread across the country and my family is spread across the world….
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Archive Legacy Bintel: In 1906, a Jewish boy supporting his family risks death for wages
The original Bintel Brief column was founded at the Forward in 1906 and ran through the 1980s. Written in Yiddish, letter writers sought advice on heartbreak, poverty, religious quarrels, family disputes, love triangles and more. Legacy Bintel revisits these original Bintel Brief letters. Many appear here in English for the first time. They have been…
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