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Foremost Caterers is preparing and delivering kosher-for-Passover packages to some of New York's most vulnerable Jews before the seder on April 8, 2020. Credit: Courtesy.

More than 8,500 Passover meals delivered to vulnerable New Yorkers for Passover

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In time for the first Passover seder on April 8, UJA-Federation of New York is providing more than 8,500 free Passover seder meals and seder kits to more than 4,000 of the most vulnerable...
Young Israel of New Rochelle, N.Y., which has been at the center of a coronavirus containment zone, March 2020 Credit: Young Israel.

New Rochelle synagogue members donate blood antibodies to fight COVID-19

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Members of a congregation in New Rochelle, N.Y., began donating blood on Tuesday in an effort to help researchers who are creating a way to treat COVID-19. The first several cases of coronavirus infection to...
Moshe Grunwald. Source: Facebook.

Mix-up leads to wrong corona funeral in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Moshe Grunwald lived a full and long life. A scion of the Pupa Chassidic dynasty, he survived Auschwitz and the Nazi death marches, rebuilding his family and his life in America. A longtime resident of Brooklyn,...
Yosef Neumann. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

One of five people injured in Monsey Hanukkah stabbing dies of wounds

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A victim of the Dec. 28 machete attack at Hanukkah party at a home and prayer hall known as Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul in Monsey, N.Y., has succumbed to his wounds. “We are sad to inform...
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Woman arrested for alleged Facebook post connecting virus to Chassidic weddings

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A 56-year-old woman in a New York Jewish community has been arrested for allegedly posting a threatening Facebook comment last week in response to a picture of “a school bus with Hebrew writing on...
Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Lower Manhattan, New York. Credit: New York City Tourism Bureau.

Museum of Jewish Heritage offers free online educational resources for those at home

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New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is offering several online resources for parents, teachers and students as the museum remains temporarily closed in accordance with COVID-19 social-distancing restrictions. For parents...

Broadway is dark, but NYTF will bring the stage to you

Folksbiene! LIVE – an online celebration of Yiddish culture featuring livestreamed theater, American Jewish performers, workshops, and other events – including a talkback with the cast of the award-winning Fiddler on the Roof in...

WATCH: Yidn, listen to what this doctor is saying!

ווידעאָ: ייִדן, הערט זיך צו צו דעם דאָזיקן דאָקטער! https://www.facebook.com/zackary.berger/videos/10158155890444711/
Severe Acute Respiratory Coronavirus 2. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

A dozen Orthodox day schools shutter across northern New Jersey over coronavirus

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Twelve Orthodox Jewish day schools in Bergen County, N.J., are closed until at least Friday, March 20, in an effort to stem the number of cases of the coronavirus there. At least 15 people in...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state will produce up to 100,000 gallons of hand sanitizer per week, distributing it to the most impacted and high-risk communities, in addition to and state agencies, March 11, 2020. Source: governor.newyork.gov.

Jewish organizations, schools, communities institute action, even close due to coronavirus

As Jews around the world were celebrating Purim, the specter of life under a global epidemic in the form of the coronavirus (COVID-19) was becoming clearer and more concerning. In a letter to supporters on...