German leaders voice shame as tribute defaced a year after anti-Semitic attack
‘Everyone must stand up when the human dignity of others is violated,’ German president says in Halle, during commemoration to mark a year since deadly… Read More ›
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Bnei Brak rabbis call to celebrate Simchat Torah at synagogues depsite virus rules
City’s top spiritual leaders say outdoor prayers are preferable but allow parishioners to gather in synagogue courts as well as within the buildings themselves; PM… Read More ›
Officials fear violence on US Election Day. Some worry it could target Jews
Security experts say white supremacists prepared to take up arms in support of Trump’s re-election, and could threaten Jewish institutions, including synagogues JTA —… Read More ›
House Calls Bring Jewish Tradition Of Sukkot To The Isolated
NEW YORK (AP) — Sukkot, the weeklong Jewish fall holiday commemorating God’s miraculous protection of the Jewish people in the desert, looks different this… Read More ›
Nation’s COVID Czar: Jewish Community Must Understand Its COVID Response Affects Others
WASHINGTON (VINnews/Sandy Eller)- The nation’s coronavirus czar expressed her support for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s newest round of restrictions that have sparked waves of outrage in… Read More ›
Ministers approve 1-week extension for restrictions on protests, prayers
Law limiting demonstrators to 1 kilometer from home extended to October 13; march held in Tel Aviv in violation of police orders; ultra-Orthodox scuffle with… Read More ›
A mortality tale
Opinion: Upon becoming infected with COVID, both the U.S. president and an Israeli rabbinical leader did a huge service to their communities, becoming living proof… Read More ›
What Does “Laishev BaSukkah” Actually Mean?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times The bracha that is recited on the Sukkah is “Blessed are You..who has sanctified us… Read More ›
Sukkot in the shadow of corona: 7,643 new cases reported on Friday
Currently, there are 70,941 active cases of the virus in Israel, 849 who are in serious condition, among them 201 who are intubated. As… Read More ›
Top rabbi who urged disregard for coronavirus rules has COVID
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 92, insisted religious study institutions remain open in violation of health directives on grounds that ‘canceling Torah study is more dangerous than… Read More ›
As virus rebounds in New York, Haredi Jews decry stigmatization
Authorities say the most significant jumps involve ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of Brooklyn and while many leaders in the community promote awareness of COVID-19 risks, others dismiss… Read More ›
Jewish Democratic group’s ad compares Trump era and 1930s Germany
JDCA says message that ‘hate must be stopped’ will target Jewish voters in swing states; American Jewish Committee calls clip ‘offensive’ The Jewish Democratic Council… Read More ›
Saudi Arabia says it busted terrorist cell trained by IRGC
Cell members “received military and field training, including on how to make explosives, inside Revolutionary Guards sites in Iran” for several weeks in late 2017,… Read More ›
Rabbis ponder coronavirus queries of ultra-Orthodox Jewish life
Months into the pandemic, religious leaders in Israel are finally addressing questions on how to maintain proper Jewish observance under the restrictions of the outbreak,… Read More ›
Israel’s modern Yom Kippur debacle
During the first wave of the virus, Israel bought thousands of ventilators because it thought that’s what was needed. Did it recruit or train staff… Read More ›
Israelis mark Yom Kippur under ‘painful’ virus lockdown
The holiest day in the Jewish calendar has been marred with political battles over openings of synagogues and limits on gatherings as Israel’s quietest day… Read More ›
Op-Ed: Who by plague? Far fewer, if we can rediscover a spirit of mutual responsibility
COVID doesn’t distinguish between Orthodox and secular, left and right, Jew and Arab. But it does have its limits. Whatever our leaders’ failures, we, the… Read More ›
The Mitzvah to Eat Today
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com THE MITZVAH The Shulchan Aruch (OC 604:1) rules that there is a Torah Mitzvah on Erev Yom Kippur to… Read More ›
3 New York Hasidic Jews die of COVID-19 as cases in Orthodox communities mount
Patients pronounced dead hours after arriving at Borough Park hospital; source familiar with victims laments communal denial that led to spike Three members of… Read More ›
As a new outbreak grows in Brooklyn, mask-wearing appears to remain scarce
Virus cases are spiking in some New York Orthodox communities, but various factors are preventing widespread adoption of a practice experts say can help keep… Read More ›
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