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Setting new one-day COVID records, Israel gears up for extended lockdown starting on Rosh Hashanah

The country recorded more than 4,000 new infections on Thursday, which would be the equivalent of nearly 150,000 new cases in the United States.

By Philissa Cramer September 10, 2020 5:33 pm

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Jews pray on a street near the tomb of Reb Nachman of Breslov in Uman, Ukraine, on Sept. 20, 2006. (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)

How an annual religious pilgrimage created a year-round Jewish community in Uman, Ukraine

Relying on tourism for their livelihood, around 70 families have settled in this sleepy Ukrainian city where their rabbis says they are “not wanted.”

September 4, 2020 3:33 pm

Brazil has one Hillel house for young Jews. Now it has its own facility.

Hillel Rio is the only local Jewish organization for the 3,000 young Jewish adults ages 18-30 in Rio de Janeiro.

September 4, 2020 10:11 am

Drone drops hundreds of bags of marijuana over Tel Aviv

By Marcy Oster September 3, 2020 10:39 am

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These 2 new streaming services are filled with Israeli and Jewish movies and shows

By Lior Zaltzman September 2, 2020 11:47 am

Dani Rotstein, pointing, explaining to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 11, 2019. Cnaan Liphshiz

It ‘shows a great resilience’: Despite COVID-19, synagogues across Europe will still open for non-Jews for Days of Jewish Culture series

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 1, 2020 5:40 pm

‘This will completely change Jewish life in Austria’: New rules open citizenship door to thousands of Jews worldwide

By Toby Axelrod September 1, 2020 2:55 pm

‘It’s not the same and everybody knows it’: Jewish campus life goes virtual

By Josefin Dolsten August 27, 2020 11:33 am

A Jewish prayer for the start of this pandemic school year

By Rabbi Sari Laufer August 26, 2020 4:45 pm

‘We are here,’ not in Israel: The new Berlin Jewish museum director on Jewish life in Germany, beyond BDS

By Joe Baur August 26, 2020 4:02 pm

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