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An unusual online minyan offers community and helps mourners with their losses
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Looking Forward When you don’t have to scramble to make a minyan — or breakfast
“You come for a reason, and then you stay,” said Rita Gann, one among a handful of volunteers keeping breakfast and kaddish going at Temple Emanuel
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First Person How I rustled up a minyan to say kaddish on Capitol Hill
As the Democrats’ chief deputy whip, Rep. Deborah Wasserman Schultz herds her colleagues for key votes. So I figured she could rustle up nine Jews.
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Community Will we be excited to return to shul?
This may be one of the oldest Jewish jokes out there. A Jewish man is shipwrecked on a desert island. Working with available supplies he makes a whole community, including a shul. Eventually he is rescued by a passing ship. Before they leave, one of the sailors says, “Hey! Why’d you build two synagogues?” The…
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Life One rabbi reports: here’s how our e-minyan found its groove
In the beginning of March, before the full impact of COVID-19 began to descend upon our country, and our consciousness, when it was still possible to speak about it seriously-but-also-lightly, I gave a sermon on Shabbat morning entitled “Intimacy without Touch.” In it, I valorized the Jewish instinct, honed over centuries and played out through…
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News North Carolina Rabbi Can’t Muster Minyan As Jews Flee Hurricane Florence
With Hurricane Florence heading straight for Wilmington, North Carolina, Rabbi Moshe Lieblich huddled with his congregation for the second day of Rosh Hashanah on Tuesday. But as the service began, he quickly realized that so many congregants had fled the storm’s path that he couldn’t get a minyan together. “People really panicked,” the co-director of…
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Community Machine Guns And A Minyan At The NRA
The 2018 NRA Annual Meeting, held May 4 through 6, featured a full 15 acres of firearms, shooting and hunting equipment — and a minyan. “I’m on my way back from Dallas where I took part in the NRA annual meetings — there was a nice crowd of fellow Jews,” Jonathan Burstyn of Chi-Defense, which…
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Life We’re Writing A Guide To American Synagogues, And We Need Your Help
I’m excited to announce the launch of the first ever Very Forward Guide to American Synagogues. This project is unlike anything we’ve done before: a crowd-sourced compilation of data that will serve as a resource to readers nationwide and offer synagogues of all shapes, sizes and denominations a chance to share their story. It’s a…
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