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Bucharest Jews can bury coronavirus dead on Shabbat to avoid cremation, a rabbinical authority rules

The edict is trying to works around a Romanian government order that COVID-19 victims be buried on the day of their death or cremated.

By Marcy Oster March 30, 2020 1:57 pm

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The synagogue in Săveni, Romania in 1996. (Dmitry Vilensky/Center for Jewish Art)

A 19th-century synagogue in Romania is now a restaurant

The dilapidated building used to house the Great Synagogue of Săveni.

August 20, 2019 8:56 am

Germany to compensate 8,000 Israel Holocaust survivors from Romania

Germany recognizes responsibility for persecution done by the Nazis’ local allies in the Romanian countryside.

July 19, 2019 11:05 am

Romania hosts inaugural summit for anti-Semitism envoys

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 17, 2019 11:12 am

The aftermath of vandalism at the Jewish cemetery of Husi, Romania in April 2019. (Courtesy of Fedrom)

Dozens of headstones smashed at fire-ravaged Jewish cemetery in Romania

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 4, 2019 9:50 am

Romanian PM announces Jerusalem embassy move at AIPAC conference

By Ron Kampeas March 24, 2019 10:29 am

Romania’s agricultural minister compares the incinerating of sick pigs to Auschwitz

July 26, 2018 9:20 am

New fund for needy Romanian Holocaust survivors to distribute $1.3 million

June 8, 2018 5:37 am

Romania has no plans to move its embassy to Jerusalem, president says

April 20, 2018 9:35 am

Romania institutes National Day of the Yiddish Language and Theater

December 5, 2017 7:00 am

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