‘Ash keeps raining and the smoke is still thick’: How the Northern California fires affected an already disrupted Yom Kippur

October 01, 2020

By MAYA MIRSKY, DAN PINE and GABE STUTMAN 

(J. the Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Rabbi Stephanie Kramer and her family were at home when they got the call to evacuate as Kol Nidre was ending on...

Bibi Shapiro, the 6-year-old whose ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ went viral, sang at Central Synagogue’s Yom Kippur services

September 29, 2020

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — The first time 6-year-old Bibi Shapiro found out just how widely viewed the video of him singing “Avinu Malkeinu” had been, he was sitting on his mother’s lap in Australia being beamed into Yom Kippur services...

‘Avoidance is no longer an option’: This Yom Kippur, rabbis across the country focused their sermons on racial injustice

September 29, 2020

By GABE FRIEDMAN

(JTA) — From the coronavirus pandemic to the fires that have ravaged California to the anxiety of our politically polarized moment, there was no shortage of current events for rabbis to mine in their High Holiday sermons...

A pandemic judgment day: Yom Kippur arrives with COVID-19 cases on the rise

September 28, 2020

By PHILISSA CRAMER and SHIRA HANAU

(JTA) – In synagogues and in their parking lots, in backyard tent services and on Zoom, Jews around the world spent the Yom Kippur holiday offering one last plea to avert death and be...

Area Yom Kippur Services (virtual and In-person)

September 27, 2020

The following is a listing of some of the area services for Yom Kippur.  The Tulane Hillel schedules can be found online.

BTESH FAMILY CHABAD HOUSE (UPTOWN)

Due to restrictions on public gatherings, reservations are required for in-person seating

CONGREGATION...