April 8, 2020
A medical team worker outside the new coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on April 2 PHOTO: NATI SHOHAT/FLASH90 ISRAEL –Three more...
April 8, 2020
Victoria Zenlea MASSACHUSETTS – With ever-stricter regulations and recommendations in place to limit the spread of coronavirus, Jewish educational institutions have embraced distance education to...
April 8, 2020
Philanthropist Robert Israel Lappin, seen here speaking at a Y2I event, passed away at 98. COURTESY PHOTOIt is with great sadness I announce the passing...
April 8, 2020
MASSACHUSETTS – Of all our communal institutions, senior residence institutions have seen the most casualties of the coronavirus pandemic, and have taken the strictest measures...
April 8, 2020
MONTREAL – Canada’s national Jewish newspaper of record, the Canadian Jewish News, announced that its April 9 issue would be its last after 60 years....
April 8, 2020
BROOKLINE – On April 5 at 1:42 a.m., the man pictured here defaced the front door of the Chabad Center of Brookline at 496 Harvard...
April 8, 2020
On the first night of Nissan, we start counting until the moon is full on the 15th. This is Seder night, our annual birthday party...
Candle Lighting Times
SHABBAT CANDLE LIGHTING TIMES
| April 8, 2020
Directories
ORGANIZATIONS
| April 8, 2020
SYNAGOGUES
| April 8, 2020
Cooking
Passover comfort foods
By Joni Schockett
Advocate columnist | April 8, 2020
Passover Chicken Cacciatore (meat) The intermediate days of Passover, Chol Ha’moed, are usually times for lots of cooking in my...
Seder treats for now or later
By Joni Schockett
Advocate columnist | April 1, 2020
Baby Eggplant with Caramelized Onions and Sun-Dried Tomatoes (pareve or meat) So here we are in a new world none...
Local News
Why this night is so different
By Brett M. Rhyne
Advocate staff | April 8, 2020
MASSACHUSETTS – With gathering in person for a community seder not possible due to coronavirus, congregations across the region have found other ways to, er,...
The last minyan in the world
| April 8, 2020
Soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces’ Haredi unit, the Netzach Yehuda Battalion, at prayer in 2005 PHOTO: ABIR SULTAN/FLASH90ISRAEL – Soldiers in the Israel Defense...
HEADLINES FROM THE ARCHIVES
| April 8, 2020
100 years ago: April 15, 1920 Easter Day Riots in Jerusalem Lowenfeld, Jew, Attorney for German ex- Kaiser 75 years ago: April 12, 1945 Jewish...
JNF BOSTON BOARD GROWS
| April 1, 2020
New JNF Boston directors Kim Rubin and Adam Rizika, center, flanked by President Steve London, left, and President Emeritus Jeffrey Woolf COURTESY PHOTOBOSTON – Jewish...
Israel News
NEWS IN BRIEF
| April 8, 2020
NEWS IN BRIEF
| April 1, 2020
Torah
Jewish optimism
By Shlomo Riskin | April 8, 2020
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone and chief rabbi of Efrat, Israel.That Moses’ name is not mentioned even once in the Haggadah...
Always there
By Rabbanit Sally Mayer | April 1, 2020
Rabbanit Sally Mayer serves as Rosh Midrasha at Ohr Torah Stone’s Midreshet Lindenbaum. She is a member of the Mizrachi Speakers Bureau (mizrachi.org/speakers).Which verse in...








