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Get this daily update as an email by signing up here. Thirty-two residents at two Massachusetts Jewish senior living facilities that are part of the same nonprofit network have died from Covid-19, and scores of other residents and staff have tested positive for the virus, JTA reports. Eleven residents of Chelsea Jewish Life Care, across its […]
Long Island is a diverse region. Over eight million people make up Nassau and Suffolk Counties. For the people of the Jewish faith, it is a welcoming home. West Hempstead and the towns that surround it, are home to schools, higher education, Kosher restaurants and of course synagogues. While an Eruv creates a border around […]
On a recent morning at the Houston Holocaust Museum, the unfolding notion of what such a museum is, and who it serves, came into sharp relief. Sitting on a row of wooden benches in a dimly lit multimedia room are two dozen middle- and high-school students, mostly Hispanic and African American, from the George I. […]