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New York City to shut down 9 neighborhoods, many with large Orthodox populations, due to COVID case spike

The lockdown will include the closing of schools and nonessential businesses for at least two to four weeks.

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Rabbi Daniel Torgmant prays at the Synagogue Edmond Safra in Monaco on March 7, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Outside of Israel, tiny Monaco has the highest ratio of Jews in the world. Here’s why the community is growing.

An opulent synagogue and a popular but more modest Chabad outpost are attracting more and more of the tax haven’s growing Jewish population.

Detroit JCC closes a major facility, citing membership decline and COVID hardship

With a declining membership and too big a building, the health club’s long-term prospects were grim.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, left, visit the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece with members of the local Jewish community on Sept. 28, 2020. (Giannis Papanikos/AFP via Getty Images)

Mike Pompeo’s Yom Kippur visit to Thessaloniki posed ‘dilemma’ for Greek Jews

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‘Avoidance is no longer an option’: This Yom Kippur, rabbis across the country focused their sermons on racial injustice

Bibi Shapiro, the 6-year-old whose ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ went viral, sang at Central Synagogue’s Yom Kippur services

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‘Tehran’ is a groundbreaking Israeli spy show about immigrant identity

An Orthodox Jewish multiracial family in Montana wants to break taboos about adoption

Kibitz is the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the day

How to host a socially distanced break-fast this Yom Kippur

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