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The coronavirus pandemic has done something that no war, natural disaster or other calamity has been able to do for more than 50 years: It’s put a stop to stage performances of “Fiddler on the Roof.” “We have always said that based on its popularity and its universal appeal, ‘Fiddler’ has a performance every day […]
Soon after the Covid-19 pandemic struck, some young Jewish families in Brooklyn found themselves jobless and low on cash. In a community where large families are the norm, store shelves were bare of priceless commodities: diapers and other supplies for infants. So 10 Sephardic women stepped in. The women, most of them mothers too, formed […]
JTA They set off car alarms, honked car horns and set off air horns. If they can’t sleep, they reasoned, the mayor shouldn’t either. Dozens of Orthodox Jews demonstrated outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City’s mayor, Monday night in a protest over the fireworks that have become a nightly ritual in […]