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Dave and Kristy Snyder had been looking forward to their son Spencer’s bar mitzvah for months when the coronavirus, and the warnings about gathering in large groups, forced them to cancel it just two days before the event. The couple, who lives in Ridgefield, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis, spent hours over the phone canceling […]
Some time ago, as I meandered through the streets of Paris and the historic Jewish district of Le Marais, I chanced upon the splendid synagogue on Rue Pavée (see photo). The verse “How goodly are thy dwellings, O Israel” (Numbers 24:5) naturally came to mind. It was interesting, I then reflected, that I had used […]
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli Cabinet approved a measure that will allow the Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet, to track the cell phones of Israelis who are infected with coronavirus. The agency would not require a court order to perform the surveillance and it will be limited in the scope of information it can […]