Tag: #coronavirus
When it comes to reopening, shuls are taking it slow
Chris LeppekJun 04, 2020
summer settles in, and as at least some aspects of life in Colorado are beginning to return to their pre-pandemic routines, are local synagogues ready to follow suit?...
Lessons from COVID
Andrea JacobsJun 04, 2020
COVID-19, one can sink or swim, withdraw or rescue, bewail unfair portions or cherish the blessings. My aunt Zelda, who loved to walk and devoured poetry, always quoted...
Sinai Bat Mitzvah milestone for Reese Bernstein — and temple
Andrea JacobsJun 04, 2020
Bernstein’s Bat Mitzvah Saturday, May 30, in Temple Sinai’s chapel signified a milestone in this young gymnast’s Jewish life and the Reform temple that shuttered...
New Rochelle, where NY’s outbreak began, yearns for normal
Uriel Heilman, JTAJun 04, 2020
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — It was during my own quarantine in Israel following an ill-timed trip to Italy in late February that I learned that my parents were stuck in the...
Can a computer screen replace a campfire?
Ben Sales, JTAJun 04, 2020
NEW YORK — Ask Jewish summer camp directors about the hardest part of designing a virtual camp experience for the COVID-19 era and they’ll laugh. Then they’ll say...
His mattress matters!
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 04, 2020
The coronavirus has been such an enormous, life-changing event. Together with much of the planet, we’ve been on lockdown, in quarantine. For so many if not most...
They are also heroes: Funeral directors
Andrea JacobsMay 28, 2020
S. Eliot, contemporizing Chaucer’s lyrical ode to spring in The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400), immortalized April as the cruelest month in his epic poem, “The...
Yiddish take on pandemic
JTAMay 28, 2020
By Ellen Scolnic and Joyce Eisenberg NEW YORK — We’ve been self-quarantining for more than 40 days and 40 nights and, quite frankly, we’re running out of steam....
Italian shuls cautiously reopen
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 28, 2020
ROME — The tables were still covered with open copies of the Book of Esther when Rabbi Yigal Chazan reentered his Milan synagogue this week. The scripture is read...
It’s not normal
Hillel GoldbergMay 28, 2020
It’s as if I’m at the baseball park and wonder where I am. It’s not that I’m losing my mind. I know I’m at the baseball park — but why am I here when I want...
