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RCA and OU issue statements on death of George Floyd and the ongoing protests

Click here for the OU statement. The RCA issued this statement on Monday: The Rabbinical Council of America, the leading membership organization of Orthodox rabbis in North America, condemns … more

By the Rabbinical Council of America | 6/1/20

Cheers for Congress ‘Never Again’ ed act

Jewish and pro-Israel groups applauded Senate passage last Wednesday of the Never Again Education Act, which seeks to expand Holocaust education in the United States. The legislation, which passed … more

By Jackson Richman, JNS | 5/20/20

Agudah statement on NYC action at Brooklyn yeshiva

Agudath Israel of America issued this statement late on Tuesday. Yesterday [Monday] a Jewish school in Brooklyn, NY was found hosting students learning in apparent violation of Governor … more

Agudath Israel of America | 5/20/20

Hadassah Professor Alon Hershko in protective anti-COVID-19 clothing.

A personal touch behind the mask at Hadassah

“Even in these complicated times, the connection with the patients is important — perhaps more now than ever,” says Professor Alon Hershko, director of Hadassah Ein Kerem Internal … more

Renee Young for Hadassah | 5/20/20

Men pray while keeping distance from each other outside their closed synagogue in Netanya, Israel, on April 23.

Rabbis mull return to shul

When Rabbi Moshe Hauer last week told Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top health adviser, that synagogues wouldn’t let congregants sit within 8 feet of each other once services resume, he was previewing a set of formal guidelines that the organization he helps lead, the Orthodox Union, would release just a day later. … more

By Marcy Oster, JTA | 5/13/20

Rabbi Zalman Wolowik of Chabad of the Five Towns, delivering an invocation at the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.

Chabad rabbi agrees that some outdoor minyanim can resume in Five Towns

Rabbi Zalman Wolowik of Chabad of the Five Towns distributed an email on Friday suggesting that “outdoor minyanim under specific circumstances” … could be safely conducted” in the … more

From Rabbi Zalman Wolowik | 5/10/20

Agudath Israel of America issues ‘road map’ for the safe reopening of shuls

On Friday, Agudath Israel of America issued this statement: We are all encouraged to see several states ease, or begin talks of easing, the long and difficult quarantine which has successfully … more

From Agudath Israel of America | 5/9/20

OU and RCA publish detailed guidance on the eventual reopening of shuls

With an eye on the eventual reopening of shuls, the Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America issued a detailed statement on Friday afternoon listing 13 “principles that should … more

By the OU and RCA | 5/8/20

An Magen David Adom team -- a Jew and a Muslim -- each pray in their own way.

You call THIS apartheid?

An Israeli mother recently posted on her Facebook page a photo of Muslim-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli healthcare professionals dancing together at a staff function at Jerusalem’s Hadassah … more

By James Sinkinson, FLAME | 5/6/20

Mayor Bill de Blasio at a meeting with Satmar community leaders in Williamsburg to denounce the hate crime attack in Jersey City, on Dec. 12, 2019.

We’ve got problems. DeBlasio isn’t one of them.

Among the most disturbing spectacles over the months since the coronavirus was unleashed on the world have been the attacks on haredi Jews in both Israel and the United States. Some … more

By Rabbi Avi Shafran | 5/6/20