The Jewish owner of a bagel chain in Scotland said she was “shocked” after the landlord of one of her stores called her request …
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JTA
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4/12/20
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Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt warned on motzei Shabbat that this “is a very dangerous time — we are seeing more deaths in the United States than we saw back in April and May — 3,000 deaths …
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By Ed Weintrob
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12/10/20
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Israel will begin receiving vaccinated tourists from abroad through a phased plan that will begin on May 23, the Israeli Tourism Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. …
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4/14/21
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If you search “Anne Frank,” you will find an abundance of tweets that say she had it much better than us after a week in quarantine. And I feel like I am losing my mind.
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Commentary by Sophie Levitt, Alma
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4/14/20
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JERUSALEM — Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, who served as Israel’s chief Sephardic rabbi for a decade beginning in 1993, was remembered as “a teacher for all Jewish communities in …
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By Sam Sokol, JTA
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4/14/20
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As of Tuesday morning, 11,868 Israelis have tested positive for coronavirus, which has so far killed 118 people in the country. According to the country’s Health Ministry, 181 patients are …
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By Maytal Yasur Beit-Or and Hanan Greenwood, Israel Hayom
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4/14/20
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Prayer at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City will be banned during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan in order to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, Muslim clerics said on …
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By JNS
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4/19/20
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Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Noach Dear was niftar on Sunday morning.
The 66-year-old jurist, who was a member of the New York City Council from 1983 to 2001, was a victim of the coronavirus, …
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Combined Sources
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4/19/20
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In April, Rebeca Posternak and her parents went out for a sushi dinner to celebrate her 23rd birthday in Boa Viagem, a suburb of her native city of Recife, Brazil.
Throughout much of Brazil, …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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6/17/20
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As countries step up their COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, the politics around vaccines has intensified. For Israel, which has become a world leader in vaccinating its own population, its reliance on …
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By Yaakov Lappin, JNS
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4/22/21
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