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Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt is the columns editor and editor of the JNS Wire.

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, has suggested that Jews take on an extra mitzvah in the merit of the hostages.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Airmont’s zoning code “substantially burdens, discriminates against and unreasonably limits the practice of religion by the Village’s Orthodox Jewish community.”
Evan Bernstein left a job at the Anti-Defamation League to serve as chief executive officer at the Community Security Service, which trains volunteers to ensure the safety of Jewish organizations.
“It is not being spread by the usual bad actors on the dark web or elsewhere,” she said, “but by government officials spreading the lies from Turkey, the Palestinian Authority and Iran.”
In issuing the injunction, Judge Gary L. Sharpe took particular issue with the way that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo seemed to lend their support to the thousands of people marching for racial justice in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing.
Due to all the regulations and health precautions that goes hand in hand with the coronavirus, directors of Jewish camps across the United States have made the difficult decision to keep their cabins shuttered.
Jewish day schools were quick to pivot from a traditional in-class setting to online classrooms, and as the academic year winds down, they are taking stock of where they stand, what they have accomplished and how to move ahead in a COVID-19 world.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is “accelerating” the process, but at 25 percent capacity and only in areas that have entered “phase 2” of the state’s reopening from the coronavirus shutdown.
Officer Amy Dotson of the Peoria Police Department.said the windows were broken by either rocks or bricks, and among the rooms impacted were classrooms and a kitchen.