Shira Hanau
By Shira Hanau
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Fast Forward Supreme Court lifts California restrictions on at-home religious gatherings
(JTA) — The Supreme Court extended a string of decisions overturning pandemic restrictions on religious gatherings, ruling Friday night that California’s restrictions on at-home gatherings unfairly limited religious freedom. The 5-4 ruling, in which Chief Justice John Roberts again joined the liberal justices in the minority, lifted rules limiting at-home gatherings in much of the…
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Fast Forward Yale to offer beginner Yiddish courses to fulfill language requirements
(JTA) — Yale will launch beginner Yiddish classes in the fall that will allow students to fulfill their language requirements, according to the Yale Daily News. Yiddish studies now offered at the Ivy League university focus on reading for translation and research purposes rather than on spoken Yiddish. The courses did not count toward its…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jewish couple and baby slashed in New York City in ‘possible bias incident’
(JTA) — A young Orthodox Jewish couple and their baby were slashed by a knife-wielding man near a New York City park. The father fought off the attacker and suffered injuries to his head that needed 12 stitches, according to the local news site BoroPark24. The mother suffered injuries to her lip and the baby…
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News Should Nikki Haley get her photo in the paper? For Orthodox magazines, it’s a question
(JTA) — Back when Nikki Haley served as ambassador to the United Nations, someone close to her approached Mishpacha, a leading haredi Orthodox weekly magazine, about arranging an interview with the potential future Republican presidential candidate. The interview would have been a get, the kind that most news magazines would feature with a cover portrait….
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Fast Forward One Dallas kosher grocer removed the mask requirement. Then came the backlash.
(JTA) — When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced last week that he would end the state’s 9-month-old mask mandate, the proprietors of Kosher Palate in Dallas decided they would adhere to his rules. Customers would no longer be required to wear masks to shop, they wrote in a Facebook post March 4, two days after…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Orthodox patrol founder arrested on sexual misconduct charges
(JTA) — A founder of a Jewish patrol group in Brooklyn is facing federal sexual misconduct charges stemming from a 2017 case in which he was charged with the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl. Jacob Daskal, 62, was arrested and charged Thursday with inciting a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity and transporting…
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News In Orthodox communities where pregnancy is prized, vaccines and variants leave women confused and afraid
(JTA) — For much of the last year, the young mothers of Lakewood, New Jersey, have experienced the pandemic as much as a nuisance as a matter of life and death. That’s not to say the community hasn’t experienced its share of outbreaks; it has. Or that families haven’t lost loved ones; they have. But…
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News ‘We’ve lost almost an entire year’: COVID-fatigued communities prepare for a distanced Purim
(JTA) — In any other year, the mask-decorating party planned for later this month at Congregation Beth El Ner Tamid in Broomall, Pennsylvania, would make perfect sense: Costumes are part of the ritual for festive Jewish holiday of Purim, which begins Feb. 25. This year, though, the masks being decorated aren’t meant for a carnival…
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