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Jewish spaces should keep the resources offered during the pandemic — it’s a disability issue

The lockdowns and restrictions of the COVID pandemic gave many able-bodied people their first taste of some of what disabled people deal with every day, writes Shelly Jay Shore.

By Shelly Jay Shore July 13, 2021 9:57 am

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Rabbi Shimshon Izakson, second from left, praying with congregants at the Wooden Synagogue in Chisinau, Moldova on Aug. 26, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Moldova’s dwindling Jewish community reopens synagogue seized by Soviets

The reopening of the Wooden Synagogue, which the Soviets nationalized in 1940, brings the number of active Jewish houses of prayer in Chisinau to four.

August 26, 2019 11:59 am

Egypt’s president says he will provide synagogues if a Jewish community re-emerges there

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with members of a commission that lobbied for the Congressional Medal of Honor for the late Anwar Sadat visiting from the United States.

February 25, 2019 2:37 pm

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