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Life How these strong Jewish women survive the Covid-19 pandemic
It has been more than 130 days since schools across the country have closed. The situation escalated so quickly that no parent could have prepared. I remember standing in my daughter’s preschool classroom with her, holding her pink nap mat with gold stars, shell shocked. Moms around the country were standing with me, stunned by…
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News Rabbi Ezekiel Musleah, 92, Captivating Reader Of Torah
(JTA) — When it came to chanting Torah, Rabbi Ezekiel Musleah was in a class by himself. As a child of ten, Musleah lost his mother. Two years later, partly as a way to console himself, Musleah dedicated himself to a meticulous three-year undertaking to learn to chant the entire Torah. There was no turning…
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News 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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News Bertram Korn, 64, Former Editor Of Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
(JTA) — Bertram Korn, the former editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent and longtime Jewish activist, died in July 5 from COVID-19. He was 64. Known to his friends as Buddy, Korn served as executive editor of the Exponent from 1994 to 1997 and was involved in establishing the Philadelphia branch of the media watchdog…
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News Beny Zlochisty, A Beloved Leader Among Mexico’s Jews, Dies At 58
(JTA) — The grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants to Mexico, Beny Zlochisty dedicated his whole life to his country’s Jewish community affairs and its bonds with Israel. When he died July 11 of COVID-19 at 58, the 12th Jewish victim of the disease in Mexico, condolence notes poured in from the many people his advocacy…
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News Danny Michelson, 76, Co-Founder Of Boutique London Grocer
(JTA) — La Fromagerie began with a wheel of Beaufort Chalet d’Alpage, procured by chance on a skiing holiday in the French alps, and a garden shed. Back in 1992, Patrician and Danny Michelson sold their home to open their first cheese shop in the north London neighborhood of Highbury. Patricia had previously been selling…
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News The Agony Of The COVID-19 Obituarist
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The sobs came over the phone as Michael Beer described his father Ira’s lifelong commitment to Torah study and his family. A victim of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people across the world, Ira Beer had come to my attention during the course of my work on…
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News Rabbi Stanley Michaels, 73, Integral Part Of Life At London’s Mill Hill Synagogue
(JTA) — Over the past 35 years, Rabbi Stanley Michaels taught hundreds of boys how to put on tefillin. Michaels was an integral part of life at London’s Mill Hill Synagogue, where he organized Sunday morning breakfasts in honor of the synagogue’s bar mitzvah celebrants. He was renowned for his singing voice, which would fill…
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