Purim Is A Holiday For Partying. This Year, Coronavirus Makes Things Different.
(JTA) — Every Purim, Richard Roberts sponsors a party for more than 2,000 people in the heavily Orthodox New Jersey city of Lakewood, where he gives out, by his estimation, some $200,000 in charity. This year, because of the coronavirus, the party is canceled. Roberts, a philanthropist and former pharmaceutical executive, made the decision Wednesday afternoon — […]