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Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue will be closed for the High Holidays for the first time

Even with Israel’s upcoming lockdown rules in effect, “there is still a risk” of spreading the coronavirus in person, the synagogue said in a statement.

Want to catch up on 5780 in Jewish pop culture? Start here, with The Almas.

This isn’t your typical list of awards, folks.

Setting new one-day COVID records, Israel gears up for extended lockdown starting on Rosh Hashanah

The country recorded more than 4,000 new infections on Thursday, which would be the equivalent of nearly 150,000 new cases in the United States.

Jews pray on a street near the tomb of Reb Nachman of Breslov in Uman, Ukraine, on Sept. 20, 2006. (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)

How an annual religious pilgrimage created a year-round Jewish community in Uman, Ukraine

Brazil has one Hillel house for young Jews. Now it has its own facility.

Drone drops hundreds of bags of marijuana over Tel Aviv

These 2 new streaming services are filled with Israeli and Jewish movies and shows

Dani Rotstein, pointing, explaining to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 11, 2019. Cnaan Liphshiz

It ‘shows a great resilience’: Despite COVID-19, synagogues across Europe will still open for non-Jews for Days of Jewish Culture series

‘This will completely change Jewish life in Austria’: New rules open citizenship door to thousands of Jews worldwide

‘It’s not the same and everybody knows it’: Jewish campus life goes virtual

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