The latest news from the New York Jewish Week.
Israel is hitting an “emergency brake” on its ongoing reopening of the economy due to a sharp rise in the rate of coronavirus infections in recent days, JTA reports. Some 800 new Covid-19 cases were identified in the past week, as opposed to a total of about 300 infections of the coronavirus confirmed in the […]
Opposing police misconduct while supporting the police more generally is the fine line being walked by a largely conservative community.
Though my mother’s death was anything but unexpected, when she did breathe her last breath just one month short of 91 years, I had simply not thought about whether I would say Kaddish or not. True, I had been caught up with caring for her, worrying about my father, mentally planning the eulogy, and Kaddish […]