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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.
“It’s a great feeling to see the whole community together on Friday nights,” says Devorah Selber, an Israeli now living outside of Philadelphia. “It is just beautiful and something I love.”
“Typically, I shop for about five families a day,” she says. “If I do a big order for one family, I will fill up a cart and take it back to my car, and then go back into the store.”
“Challah and Chicken Soup for the Quarantined Soul” includes rolls, grape juice, candles and homemade soup (matzah balls optional).
“Whenever there is a crisis, it’s beautiful to see how many are willing to go out and help,” said Flora Glouberman, chair of the Chesed Committee at Young Israel of Century City, Calif.
It “seems to be part of a broader trend in this instance. The ‘anti-other’—anti-Semitic, anti-Chinese, racist, xenophobic—rhetoric is everywhere,” says Jennifer Rich, executive director of the Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in New Jersey.
“He was an eloquent spokesman for Jewish values to leaders and decision-makers, and he selflessly took responsibility to carry the burdens of people’s needs, whether macro or micro,” stated Rabbi Ariel Shoshan from Ahavas Torah: The Scottsdale Torah Center.
“We should all be positive, and I think our target, our mission, is to live and survive,” said Isaac Querub, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain.
“For the first time in history, we had to cancel all of our summer tours to Israel. Our teens will not be able to go to Israel, and that is very tragic for sorts of reasons,” Simon Johnson, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council in the United Kingdom.