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June 30, 2022, 11:48 am
‘How I escaped the alternative reality of Chasidic life’
After almost three decades Akiva Weingarten left the Chasidic world behind and found an unfamiliar new one waiting for him.
By Liam Hoare
2JCG36T London, UK. 13th June 2022. Protesters gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice in support of refugees as the court hears appeals to stop the flights to Rwanda. Credit: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News
June 13, 2022, 12:29 pm
UK and US charities supporting refugees and asylum seekers to join forces
The Jewish Council for Racial Equality in the UK is joining forces with HIAS, connecting two Jewish agencies with long histories of helping those seeking safety in foreign lands.
By Stephen Oryszczuk
May 31, 2022, 2:44 pm
An unconscious coupling which might encourage more attendance at zoom batmitzvahs
The Temple Beth El in Minneapolis was hosting a batmitzvah ceremony online when a couple got intimate - without realising they had not switched their camera off
By Toby Porter
A volunteer, left, distributes hot soup at a distribution tent set up by the Masbia kosher pantry network near the scene of a deadly fire in the Bronx, Jan. 10, 2022. The fire, which claimed 19 lives, is the city's deadliest in 30 years. (Courtesy Masbia) via JTA
January 10, 2022, 3:48 pm
Jewish groups rally for victims of deadly New York fire
Masbia network of kosher food pantries set up a relief tent near the scene of the tragedy, serving food to survivors and responders.
By JTA
Central Park in all its wintry glory
December 23, 2021, 9:15 am
New York is full of festivity
There's plenty of Jewish interest in the Big Apple to get your teeth into
By Louisa Walters
Ari Nagel has had almost 100 children and doesn't plan on stopping.
December 9, 2021, 8:42 am
Meet the American Jew with almost as many children as Abraham
Serial sperm donor Ari Nagel will father a total of 120 children over the next nine months and isn't stopping
By Sandy Rashty
October 27, 2021, 3:10 pm
Medieval Jewish prayerbook sold for £6m, a near-record for Judaica
700-year-old item known as the Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor, went under the hammer at Sotheby’s New York auction
By JTA
Ari Schonbrum worked on the 101st floor of Tower 1 at the World Trade Center
September 10, 2021, 2:16 pm
‘If my son hadn’t forgotten his book order form, I would be dead’
Jewish survivors of the attacks on New York’s Twin Towers recount a disaster zone of biblical proportions
By Michael Daventry
September 5, 2021, 10:20 am
Torah scrolls rolled out to dry after New York synagogues flooded
Congregants waded waist-deep in floodwaters after record rainfall in the area
By Michael Daventry
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August 8, 2021, 11:35 am
18 Orthodox girls taken off New York-bound flight in dispute over virus rules
Police at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport removed 18 Orthodox Jewish girls on Friday allegedly because they failed to comply with COVID-19 measures about eating at proscribed times.
By JTA
In February 2021, Kestenbaum & Company, a Brooklyn firm that has specialized in Judaica, pulled off its catalogue what the Jewish Community of Cluj says is a 19th-century ledger from its Jewish burial society. (Kestenbaum & Company)
July 26, 2021, 4:00 pm
Judaica from Brooklyn auction house in probe over Holocaust loot
Federal US authorities took 17 items including scrolls and manuscripts over claims Kestenbaum and Company was selling them without permission or documentation
By JTA
There has been a surge in antisemitic incidents across the United States, including an attack in Los Angeles
May 25, 2021, 9:40 am
Biden condemns ‘despicable’ surge in US antisemitic attacks
The president’s remarks come after incidents of violent assault in Los Angeles and arson in New York in response to events in Gaza
By Michael Daventry
New York police officers respond to an attack at one of four synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, April 26, 2021. (NYPD via Twitter)
May 2, 2021, 9:55 am
Suspect arrested for vandalising Bronx synagogues
Jordan Brunette, 29, arrested in early hours of Saturday, after he allegedly broke into a shed at the shul
By JTA
April 1, 2021, 3:26 pm
Rabbi under investigation for promoting underage forced marriage
Yoel Roth accused of allowing children as young as 15-years-old to tie the knot, after journalist who grew up in the Charedi community shares shocking photo of the "couple".
By JTA
Screenshots of the funeral and mourning processions
March 8, 2021, 12:46 pm
Hundreds pack into Brooklyn study hall and streets for Chasidic rabbi’s funeral
Religious Jews in New York flouted the rules to mourn the death of rabbi Yechezkel Roth
By JTA
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