Jewish Education
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.
A federal law protects religious institutions from unduly burdensome or discriminatory land-use regulations.
The decision affects thousands of families across North America.
“This program is critical and will help ease the burden that so many of our students and their families have carried,” said Yachad international director Avrohom Adler.
“My feeling was that if we’re not going to help the people who are helping us, that’s just very callous,” said Rabbi Eitan Rubin, head of Yeshiva Sh’or Yoshuvs in Nassau County, N.Y.
With synagogues locked up, religious and day schools in abeyance, JCCs shuttered and Shabbat meals now nuclear family affairs, how can parents keep the Jewish flame alive?
From online classrooms to mindfulness exercises and more, those who run classrooms and courses want and need support with new platforms.
Jewish federations, denominations, day schools, Hebrew classes and synagogues are adapting to weeks and possibly months of social distancing and quarantines due to the pandemic.
Because of the nature of the Bergen County Jewish community, families are often affiliated with more than one school, with significant interaction among the teachers and student populations. Several schools reported having a parent, staff member or student with symptoms of the virus.
“We’re also going to use the National Guard in the containment area to deliver food to homes, to help with the cleaning of public spaces,” said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
“We are honored to be able to endow Tulane’s chair in contemporary Jewish studies,” said the donors, parents of a recent Tulane graduate. “It embodies Jewish and universal values so important to the humanities in shaping and inspiring the future.”
In a letter to parents, officials at Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy in the Bronx said the school was taking “precautionary measures.”
