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News A priest, a rabbi and an imam walked into a wedding — for 500 couples
At Lincoln Center's (Re)Wedding ceremony, couples who missed their celebrations due to the pandemic got to say "I do."
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Culture Taking a COVID home test? Get the magnifying glass and pay attention!
What's more complicated than tax returns? Confusing self-test instructions in tiny print on top of anxiety
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Fast Forward As of Saturday, travelers no longer need COVID tests to enter Israel
A week after the Health Ministry scrapped coronavirus tests at Tel Aviv airport, it lifts other entry requirements
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News 10 Jews who died of COVID-19
As the number of American deaths from COVID-19 reaches the 1 million mark, a sample of Jewish lives lost
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News The creator of ‘Faces of Covid’ calls for a better monument to the dead than his own
At the 1 million COVID-death mark, Alex Goldstein continues to tweet out obits as he contemplates immeasurable loss
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Opinion I’m joining this year’s March of the Living. It may be the last to include survivors
In 2019, 70 Holocaust survivors walked the historic route from Auschwitz to Birkenau. This year, there will only be eight.
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News Missed the Seder because you caught Covid? You weren’t alone.
I strolled into my parents’ home Friday afternoon about six hours before Seder, only to find them seated in the living room looking rather concerned. “Molly has Covid,” my mom said. Oh. My sister had gotten in from New York the night before. My parents had picked her up. Then she came down with a…
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Opinion I lost my dad to COVID. Opening up to a stranger helped me heal — and appreciate my Jewish community even more.
To Denise, I was an open book. For almost a year, through the endless blur that followed the first COVID shutdown, I shared with her the intimate details of my life. No, she wasn’t my psychologist, rabbi or spouse. She’s a sociologist running an oral history project. In April 2020, my dad died from COVID….
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News Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
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Fast Forward Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
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Opinion Celebrating Shabbat in Los Angeles: Amid the fires, a still, small voice
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Opinion ‘Home is memory’: How Jews make sense of what they’ve lost in the LA fires and what remains
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News LA fires won’t stop bar mitzvahs this Shabbat, as joy and pain meet
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News HIAS cuts 22 staff even as it braces for Trump immigration crackdown
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