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Imagine ‘Good Night Moon’ as a Book from the Bible

Simmy Cohen has hardly read from the Torah since his bar mitzvah. When he’s not working at his marketing job from his home in Queens, Cohen spends far more time these days reading children’s books to his 13-month-old daughter. But with a spark of comedic genius and perhaps a little quarantine-induced imagination, he put the […]

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De Blasio blasts Williamsburg funeral, Israelis mark Independence Day under curfew

Mayor Bill de Blasio criticized the “Jewish community” for defying social distancing orders when mourners in Williamsburg held a massive funeral for a rabbi who died of coronavirus, the New York Post reports. Hundreds of haredi Jews gathered in the streets near the intersection of Rutledge Street and Bedford Avenue to pay their respects for […]

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