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Virus outbreak disrupts Purim fest but some improvise
In New York's Westchester County, 45 student volunteers from a Jewish secondary school were fanning out in teams to read the megillah on Monday evening and during the day Tuesday outside the homes of about 120 families who are...
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Families affected by virus celebrate Purim at home
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Virus outbreak disrupts Purim fest but some improvise
In New York's Westchester County, 45 student volunteers from a Jewish secondary school were fanning out in teams to read the megillah on Monday evening and during the day Tuesday outside the homes of about 120 families who are...
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Israelis evacuated from Hungary amid virus
43 Hungarians and 31 citizens from other European countries arrived on Thursday in Budapest on a charter flight from Tel Aviv, which was organised by an Orthodox Jewish group affiliated with Chabad Lubavitch.
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Holy site in Jerusalem closed to curb virus
Muslims prayed outside the gates leading to the Al-Aqsa mosque in east Jerusalem on Monday after Muslim authorities indefinitely closed the compound to curb the spread of the new virus.
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Ultra-Orthodox burn leavened bread for Passover holiday
Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem's religious Mea Shearim neighbourhood began Passover celebrations Wednesday by burning leavened bread, known as hametz.
During Passover, only unleavened bread known as matzo can be eaten, according to...
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Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Jews prepare for Passover holiday
Israeli security forces patrolled the streets of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Shearim on Tuesday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a complete lockdown over the upcoming Passover...
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Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Jews prepare for Passover holiday
Israeli security forces patrolled the streets of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Shearim on Tuesday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a complete lockdown over the upcoming Passover...
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CLEAN : 'We have to go to pray': Orthodox Jews defiant in face of virus shutdown in Brooklyn
In an Orthodox Jewish area of Brooklyn, community members vow to defy government attempts to restrict their worship over rising coronavirus concerns as they mark a religious holiday (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Hundreds gather in Paris to protest court ruling over Jewish women's murder
Hundreds of demonstrators gather at Trocadero square in Paris to demand "Justice for Sarah Halimi", a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman who died in 2017 after being pushed out of the window of her Paris flat by her neighbour, who shouted...
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CLEAN : Pope expresses solidarity for people killed in Mt. Meron stampede
Speaking during the Sunday Regina Coeli prayer on St. Peter's square, Pope Francis expressed his solidarity to Israel for the victims of there Mt. Meron accident where 45 men and boys were killed in a stampede at a packed ultra-Orthodox...
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CLEAN : Israeli police disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting highway expansion
Israeli security forces disperse and detain ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during a demonstration against the expansion of a highway at a site believed to be housing ancient Jewish graves (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Funeral of policeman killed in Tuesday's Bnei Brak shooting attack
Israeli policemen hold a funeral for their fellow Amir Khoury, a Christian-Arab that was killed in a shooting attack in Bnei Brak, a mostly Jewish Orthodox city near Tel Aviv (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Israeli army demolishes house of Beni Brak attacker in W.Bank raid
The Israeli army carries out an operation in the village of Yabad near Jenin to demolish the home of Diaa Armashah, 27, who killed five people in a gun attack in Bnei Brak, an Orthodox Jewish city near Tel Aviv in March (Footage by AFPTV...
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CLEAN : Palestinians clear rubble of house demolished by Israeli army in West Bank
The residents of the West Bank village of Yabad clear the rubble of the family house of Diaa Hamarsha, a Palestinian who in March killed five people in a gun attack in Bnei Brak, an Orthodox Jewish city near Tel Aviv, after it was blown...