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Shortened shofar blasts and last-minute sermon tweaks: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death changed Rosh Hashanah services

The news of the Jewish justice’s death broke like a wave over Jewish communities in the first moments of the new year or the last moments of the one just ending.

By Philissa Cramer September 21, 2020 6:18 pm

Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be the first Jew and first woman to lie in state at the Capitol

She will also be only the second Supreme Court justice to lie in state at the Capitol.

September 21, 2020 1:29 pm

2 UPenn kosher chefs lost their jobs because of COVID. Now they’re opening a kosher food truck to help the needy.

The two men, both Black, have had their plan to launch what is nicknamed “The Chosen Mitbach,” or kitchen, for some time after meeting more than a decade ago at the Hillel dining hall.

September 21, 2020 12:31 pm

How 1 Zoom employee saved High Holidays streaming for 300 synagogues, including his own

By Ben Harris September 18, 2020 1:27 pm

Brazilian Jewish schools raise $4 million in donations for scholarships

By Marcus M. Gilban September 17, 2020 4:05 pm

Hungarian Jews baking challah breads in front of the Obuda Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary on Oct. 7, 2019. (Courtesy of EMIH)

Hungarian Jews to celebrate Rosh Hashanah on a boat on the Danube amid rising COVID infections

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 17, 2020 3:17 pm

Popular Israeli reality show ‘Goalstar’ to film its next season in the UAE

By Curt Schleier September 16, 2020 2:50 pm

‘I miss you. And I love you’: What American rabbis are thinking as the Jewish new year dawns during the pandemic

By Ben Harris September 14, 2020 4:18 pm

Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue will be closed for the High Holidays for the first time

By Marcy Oster September 14, 2020 12:00 pm

Want to catch up on 5780 in Jewish pop culture? Start here, with The Almas.

By Gabe Friedman September 11, 2020 11:13 am

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Shortened shofar blasts and last-minute sermon tweaks: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death changed Rosh Hashanah services

Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be the first Jew and first woman to lie in state at the Capitol

2 UPenn kosher chefs lost their jobs because of COVID. Now they’re opening a kosher food truck to help the needy.

How 1 Zoom employee saved High Holidays streaming for 300 synagogues, including his own

Brazilian Jewish schools raise $4 million in donations for scholarships

Hungarian Jews to celebrate Rosh Hashanah on a boat on the Danube amid rising COVID infections

Popular Israeli reality show ‘Goalstar’ to film its next season in the UAE

‘I miss you. And I love you’: What American rabbis are thinking as the Jewish new year dawns during the pandemic

Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue will be closed for the High Holidays for the first time

Want to catch up on 5780 in Jewish pop culture? Start here, with The Almas.

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