Can a person in home-quarantine read the megillah via Skype? As coronavirus places people in isolation, rabbis grapple with how to help their communities fulfil Torah commandments By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN | MARCH 5, 2020 As the coronavirus spreads across the world, requiring people
Uniting and Exciting Jews Around the World “A rabbi and a puppeteer walk into a bar…” While this may sound like the start of a bad joke, this scene actually took place in February, as members of an OTS Amiel
Italy: Communal prayer becomes prohibited in some areas Italian Jewish life in danger as result of COVID-19 spread, following new government ban on gatherings in some areas, including religious. Mordechai Sones | Arutz 7 | 25/02/20 New regulations issued by
Tasty Torah is more than just a metaphor In an attempt to draw members of the Jewish community in Omaha to lessons on the weekly Torah portion, Yoni Dreyer came up with a novel idea: each Torah lesson ends with
40 Men but no minyan, and a sukkah in the living room: the challenges of bringing Judaism back to the Jews of Europe Oped by Rabbi Yehoshua Grunstein | Maariv| 3 February, 2020 Despite the worrying rise in anti-Semitism, non-Jews
Increased numbers of non-Jews attending synagogue services This trend is particularly interesting considering “the long history of antisemitism in Germany and Poland” said Ohr Torah Stone President By JERUSALEM POST STAFF | JANUARY 31, 2020 L-R: Rabbi Yehoshua Ellis (Warsaw); Rabbi
Hadran Alach – “We will return to you” Siyyum HaShas was marked in January through communal and mega-events all over the world, as well as Hadran’s historic first siyyum for women at Jerusalem’s Convention Center. The significance of concluding a
“Whether its inclusion, or women’s leadership, or serious learning for men… or the high schools he created in America… or the aguna advocacy… or the tens of thousands we interact with through our shlichut program or the hundreds of thousands
“It was inspiring to see a community with no water or electricity steadfastly seeking to keep Shabbat and Kashrut” Ohr Torah Stone emissaries who returned from around the world after several years of service discussed the challenges and adjustments at
1 Month, 3 Continents, 13 delegations, 39 Communities November was a very busy and rewarding month for OTS Amiel BaKehila as our delegations shared the depth of Judaism, the wonder of modern Israel, and the beauty of Jewish art with
‘I’m going to die and I want my death to be a Jewish one’ Paula delved into Christianity and monasteries were her refuge during the Holocaust. But now, at 94, she’s decided that when she dies, she wants her death
“You walk around freely with your kippa on?” Oped by Rabbi Uzi Levian | October 31, 2019 On the night of Yom Kippur, following a moving prayer service and a reunion with Gothenburg’s Jewish members, some of whom I had
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