Shira Hanau
By Shira Hanau
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Fast Forward Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, noted Torah scholar, author and psychiatrist, is dead at 90
(JTA) — Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, the scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, author of more than 60 books, and a physician who became a leading authority on drug treatment and addiction, has died. Twerski was 90 and had been battling COVID-19 in Israel, according to Yeshiva World News. Born in Milwaukee into a family…
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Fast Forward This Orthodox rabbi stopped praying for the president when Trump was elected. This week, he’s starting again.
(JTA) — When Donald Trump became president of the United States in 2017, Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz felt he could no longer say the standard prayer for the United States government that is recited in most Modern Orthodox congregations. Yanklowitz, who is president and dean of the Valley Beit Midrash in Phoenix, was far from the…
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Fast Forward A Hasidic man faces prison for money laundering. His lack of education is being used in a plea for leniency.
(JTA) — Advocates for improving secular studies in Hasidic yeshivas are getting an assist from an unlikely place: the federal case of a Hasidic man who has pleaded guilty to laundering drug money. Zalman Zirkind of Montreal, but currently on house arrest in Brooklyn, is due to be sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in…
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Fast Forward ‘Blood is on your hands’: Antisemitism Cow returns one final time to rail at Twitter
(JTA) — An anonymous Twitter account that mooed at antisemitic tweeters before quitting the platform returned Monday night to take the platform to task one last time. “You have failed the people who use this platform,” Antisemitism Cow tweeted, tagging Twitter and its CEO, Jack Dorsey. “There is no excuse for your allowing Nazis with…
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Fast Forward In Israel, 1 in 132 haredi Orthodox adults over age 65 has died from coronavirus
In Israel, as in the United States, haredi Orthodox communities have been hard hit by the coronavirus. Now new data from the Israeli Ministry of Health shows that one in 132 haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, adults in Israel over age 65 has died from the coronavirus, compared with one in 475 adults over 65 among the…
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Fast Forward Federal appeals court strikes down New York’s capacity limits on houses of worship in areas with rising COVID cases
(JTA) — A federal court of appeals ruled that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s capacity limits on houses of worship in areas with rising COVID-19 cases constituted a violation of religious liberty. The ruling on Monday comes after a Supreme Court injunction last month blocking Cuomo from enforcing the rules until the lower court could…
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Fast Forward ‘You will be prosecuted:’ Cuomo promises consequences for vaccine fraud after ParCare scandal
After an Orthodox-owned health clinic appeared to be administering COVID-19 vaccines to members of the public contrary to state guidelines, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the investigation would be referred to the state attorney general’s office and that vaccine-related fraud would come with consequences. “We will not tolerate any fraud in the vaccination process,”…
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News Rabbi vaccinated at clinic under investigation says he asked if shot was legal
Hershel Schachter, a leading Modern Orthodox rabbi who received a COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at a clinic now under investigation for improperly administering the vaccine, said he was led to believe that the vaccination was above board. Schachter and Rabbi Mordechai Willig, both head teachers at Yeshiva University and major authorities on Jewish law, were photographed…
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