Shira Hanau
By Shira Hanau
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Life 6 months into pandemic, Jews prepare for a High Holiday season of rupture and resilience
(JTA) — For many Jews, a high point of services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is the Unetaneh Tokef prayer, which wonders who will live and who will die in the year ahead. This year, that question will take on added resonance, as the High Holidays fall six months into a global pandemic that has…
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Fast Forward Cuomo vows to take action on Brooklyn Jewish weddings if de Blasio doesn’t
(JTA) – If New York City’s mayor won’t stop weddings in Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods from happening, the state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said Wednesday that he will. “If the mayor is not doing any enforcement actions, then the state will,” Cuomo said at a news conference, according to the New York Post. “We’ve had superspreader events…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Jewish officials warn of new COVID cases amid rising fear of a second wave
(JTA) – With cases of COVID-19 rising over the last several weeks in Orthodox communities in the New York City area, a synagogue in Brooklyn and a Jewish ambulance group issued warnings for people to continue taking precautions against the virus. Hatzoloh of Rockland County, which serves a number of large Orthodox communities in Monsey,…
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Fast Forward Brandeis targeted by bomb threat
(JTA) – Brandeis University was the target of a bomb threat on Thursday, less than a week before classes for the fall semester are set to begin. An alert was sent through the Boston-area university’s alert system at 10:55 a.m. advising those on campus to seek shelter and those off campus to remain there. An…
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News New COVID-19 cases in Orthodox communities stoke fears
(JTA) – Over the past week, the reports have come fast and furious. One overnight sports camp for boys in Pennsylvania had an outbreak of COVID-19, sending eight boys back to their home communities on Long Island and several more to Baltimore, where others had contracted the virus after attending weddings or coming into contact…
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Fast Forward “Do you pledge not to travel to Israel:” Democratic Socialists asks NYC council candidates
(JTA) – Lots of candidates for New York City Council are expected to seek an endorsement from the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter, a rising force in city politics, in next year’s elections. To apply for the endorsement, the candidates will have to decide if they will pledge not to travel to Israel if…
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Fast Forward Non-Jewish N.Y. assemblywoman targeted in anti-Semitic attack
(JTA) – The fact that New York state Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright isn’t Jewish didn’t stop a vandal from leaving behind an anti-Semitic note after defacing her office. Seawright, a Democrat whose district includes part of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, called for a police investigation into the incident at a news conference Tuesday. The intruder, whose…
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Fast Forward Shortened Census period means Brooklyn’s Orthodox communities will likely be undercounted
(JTA) – Before the coronavirus pandemic hit New York City, Rabbi Avi Greenstein knew he needed to make a big push to have people in his neighborhood fill out the census. In Borough Park, where Greenstein serves as executive director of the Boro Park Jewish Community Council, only 49.2% of residents filled out the census…
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