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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

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The NYC Marathon minyan, run by a group of 10 volunteer staff, attracted hundreds of participants in 2019. (Peter Berkowsky)
November 7, 2021, 8:45 am
The man who helps Jewish NYC marathoners run through their morning prayers
Organizers of the morning minyan at the start of the 26-mile race believe it’s the longest established religious service of any kind at a major sporting event anywhere in the world
By julia GERGELY
Princes Road synagogue in Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Google Street View)
October 9, 2021, 6:37 pm
Trans woman helps a UK Orthodox synagogue complete a minyan
‘I asked her permission so as not to offend her. She was fine with it,’ rabbi says of quorum that requires 10 men
By ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
August 29, 2021, 2:01 pm
Daily Briefing August 29 – Bennett heads home from longer-than-expected DC trip
US correspondent Jacob Magid fills in details of Bennett’s meeting with US President Biden, while military correspondent Judah Ari Gross explains Gaza and IDF plans regarding Iran
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Jewish minyan organized at the hotel of the Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, September 1, 2020. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
September 1, 2020, 9:00 am
Israeli delegation and local Jews hold Jewish minyan in Abu Dhabi
‘We’ve waited for you for a long time,’ community head Ross Kriel tells National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, as shofar is blown and prayer is recited for UAE’s armed forces
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk in Antwerp, Belgium, March 16, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
June 17, 2020, 10:50 am
Antwerp’s Orthodox Jews defy own prediction, weather pandemic surprisingly well
Some credit swift action by rabbis, others the unified communal response; whatever the cause, the 20,000-strong community avoided Belgium’s highest per capita death rate globally
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: A rabbi leads a virtual morning minyan from his home, April 6, 2020. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
April 24, 2020, 1:42 pm
For now, online services mean many synagogues are seeing greater attendance
With virtual prayer requiring no commute, more seek spiritual solace to help deal with the stress of a pandemic — and, rabbis say, some folks just have more time on their hands
By Josefin Dolsten
Zooming in to reciting Kaddish, the mourners' prayer, at home. (Photo montage, Gil Be'eri)
April 1, 2020, 7:48 pm
LISTEN: Making seder of high-tech prayer and Zoom Passovers
Two new ToI podcasts to enlighten and amuse: Conversations on how technology can aid in communicating with the elderly or God; and a short story from ‘Why, Why, Why!’
By ToI Staff
Conservative Jews pray at the section prepared for prayer for the Women of the Wall at Robinson's Arch in Jerusalem's Old City on July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift/Flash90)
March 18, 2020, 8:55 pm
Conservative movement: Virtual minyans permitted during virus ‘crisis situation’
Declaration stresses that any livestream should not be activated by a Jewish person on Sabbath
By JTA
Deborah Klapper
March 13, 2018, 1:30 pm
Deborah Klapper
When Yeshiva College gags women it is my business
Blocking a female student from teaching Torah because men might hear her affects the whole Modern Orthodox world
Shir HaMaalot participants after Friday night services in Brooklyn, July 14, 2017. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)
August 18, 2017, 3:55 am
How these young Jews found spirituality outside the synagogue
A diverse cohort of millennials are founding independent prayer groups where leadership is shared among the congregants
By Josefin Dolsten
Smartphone apps can help with everything from putting on tefillin correctly to finding a minyan to locating a kosher restaurant. (Lior Zaltzman/JTA)
May 10, 2017, 10:36 am
These 7 smartphone apps make life easier for religious Jews
Observant Jews can now look no further than their phones to find the nearest prayer quorum or kosher restaurant
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative image of a woman reading from the Scroll of Esther. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 27, 2017, 6:39 am
Orthodox women rabbis don’t ‘count’ in prayer quorums. Should they?
As the dust settles from the Orthodox Union’s recent statement outlawing female clergy, some of the perplexed wonder how these new leaders can guide communal prayer
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gestures while speaking at Georgetown University Law Center's third annual Dean's Lecture to the Graduation Class, in Washington, Tuesday, February 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
March 3, 2016, 10:53 am
US Supreme Court Justice Alito plays Talmudic scholar
Conservative judge dissents to decision not to review case of Jewish prisoner claiming religious discrimination
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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