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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Conservative "Rabbis" Pasken That Saying Kaddish Online is Permissible During ‘Crisis'

The leaders of the Conservative movement’s Jewish law committee issued a crisis declaration allowing the recitation of the Mourner’s Kaddish with a virtual online prayer quorum.

In a statement issued this week, Rabbis Elliot Dorff and Pamela Barmash, the co-chairs of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, said that given the current public health crisis it’s permitted to constitute a prayer quorum, or minyan, with individuals connected by videoconference.

“This permission of constituting a minyan solely online, whether for all prayers requiring a minyan or only for Mourner’s Kaddish, is limited to this ‘sha’at hadehak’ (crisis situation), where for weeks at a time, gathering a minyan is not possible without risk to human life,” the rabbis wrote. “This permission is also limited to an area where most of the synagogues have been ordered, or recommended, to close for the crisis.”

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Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, on Wednesday published a halakhic ruling stating that people who are in isolation due to coronavirus should leave their cellular devices during the Sabbath in order to be informed by medical staff on how to act based on test results.

"There is no doubt that anyone who was tested for coronavirus should leave a cell phone available on Shabbat, so he can be updated on his condition and where he needs to be evacuated. Even those who have not been tested should make their cellphone available, so that if they are found to have been around a verified patient and need to stay in isolation, they can be notified as soon as possible,” he said.

Rabbi Yosef further said,

"An array of vehicles with a public address system must be established in order to announce during Shabbat, in religious and haredi areas, regarding the obligation of isolation, according to the areas that will become apparent during the Sabbath must be in isolation."

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Monsey .... The Scheiner Shul & Stolin Shul May have been Exposed To Virus

New cases of the novel strain of the coronavirus (COVID-19) as well as new sites of exposure have been identified in Rockland County.

There are now a total of 45 positive cases of COVID-19 are now being reported in the county, Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert announced late Wednesday, March 18.

That's an increase of 15 cases over the total of 30 reported just before midday on Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Sites For Potential Exposure

Anyone who visited the following locations in Rockland County may have been exposed to coronavirus (COVID-19) and must stay in quarantine until the end date listed for each location:

Ohr Chaim Synagogue

Located at 18-20 Forshay Road, Monsey

Potential Exposure date: Sunday, March 8

Quarantine must continue until Monday, March 23

L’Dor (adult care facility)

Located at 156 West Clarkstown Road, New City

Potential Exposure dates: Wednesday, March 11, Thursday, March 12, and Friday, March 13

Quarantine for 14 days from last exposure with the latest end date of Saturday, March 28

Karlin Stolin Synagogue

Located at 52 Main Street, Monsey

Potential Exposure date: Monday, March 16

Quarantine must continue until Tuesday, March 31

"COVID-19 is spreading quickly throughout the county and all residents are advised to stay home, including children and teens not in school," Day and Ruppert said in a statement. "Practice social distancing by keeping 6 feet away from other people.

" Stay home unless you must go to work, need medical care, or groceries. Consider using delivery services for supplies.

"Remember to wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, don’t touch eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands, and cover your cough with your sleeve or a tissue."

For quarantine information from the Rockland County Department of Health visit bit.ly/RCDOHQuarantineInfo .

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Frum MK Omer Yankelevitch a Blue & White ... Against Government With Arabs

Shaitel wearing MK Omer Yankelevitch, a member of the Blue and White faction on behalf of Benny Gantz’s Israel Resilience party, opposes the establishment of a left-wing minority government that will rely on the votes of the members of the Arab Joint List party.

According to a report on Tuesday on Channel 12 News, Yankelevitch announced her position to Gantz, joining MKs Zvi Hauser and Yoaz Hendel, who are members of the Blue and White faction on behalf of Moshe Ya’alon’s Telem party.

However, according to the report, officials in Blue and White believe that, unlike Hauser and Hendel, Yankelevitch will vote according to faction discipline on this matter.

Meanwhile, close associates of Hauser and Hendel have made it clear over the past few days that should Gantz bring before the Knesset a government led by him which is supported by the votes of the Joint List, they will vote against it and will not abstain or be absent during the vote.

The message means that as of today, Benny Gantz will not be able to form a minority government supported by members of the Joint List

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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

STOP THE MINYANIM: Respected Frum Doctor In Queens Writes Open Letter

(Dr Bennett is a Board Certified Emergency Room Physician, NY Hospital of Queens, and also private practice in Queens)

This is Ellie Bennett.

You all know who I am and where I work. I just feel that I have to go on record.

It is my medical opinion, and the same of all the infectious disease experts, that these minyamin are going to kill people. I know it is very difficult for you all to understand it because it seems like an innocuous gathering of 15 to 20 people. I will happily take any of you on a 5-minute tour of what is going on in my hospital right now.

As of this past Thursday we had seven patients sick enough to be admitted. As of yesterday it was 30 and as of today it’s 50. Elderly people from our neighborhood are on ventilators in the ICU because of these minyanim.

There’s a 6:00AM minyan, followed by 7:00AM followed by 8:00AM followed by 9:00AM Minyan. Even if only 25 people come to each, that’s a hundred people in the same room in the same morning.

Statistically, you guys are going to kill at least one old person every time you guys meet.

You all trust me to treat you like family when you come to my office, so I’m speaking to you like family. Stop the minyan. Stop the gatherings. Stay home and pray by yourself. Have in mind the EMTs and paramedics and doctors and nurses working in the hospitals who are working under ridiculous conditions trying to save as many people as we can. I admit, there will not be thousands of deaths in Kew Gardens Hills (Queens). But are we really willing to accept that 1 out of 100 people in our neighborhood will die? I am not.

We trust doctors whether or not to eat on Yom Kippur or when to make a bris.

Why all of a sudden do you think it’s appropriate to ignore us?

Have a good day and good luck to us all.

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Actress Rosanna Arquette a Vicious anti-Semite says "Jewish Conspiracy Behind Coronavirus"

On Tuesday, Hollywood actress, Trump-hater and now apparent vicious anti-Semite Rosanna Arquette issued a tweet (later deleted) insinuating a Jewish conspiracy behind the ravaging of the world by the coronavirus, ranting,

“I’m still confused, so Israel has been working on a corona virus vaccine for a year already ? (so they knew )Vaccines take a long time to know if they are safe and KUSHNER OSCAR is the major investor in the new vaccine that is supposedly coming here. lives at risk for profit.

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Finally: Police Arrest Organizer Of Illegal Mass Wedding In Beit Shemesh

What Chutzpah????
Is this Rebbe taking responsibility if people die?

Police arrested four people Tuesday night after they participated in a Chareidi wedding in the city of Beit Shemesh where at least 150 people were present in violation of Health Ministry guidelines limiting the number of people at gatherings to 10 and closing event halls and restaurants.

According to a report on Kikar Hashabat, the four were the father of the groom, an American citizen, who arrived in Israel from the United States and was supposed to have been in quarantine; the father of the bride; the caterer; and a resident of Jerusalem who reportedly organized the wedding. The father of the groom was later released and will be questioned by police after completing his mandatory 14-day quarantine. The father of the bride was also released.

A police spokesman said that the detainees had “violated a public health injunction and thus endangered the public,” and called on the public to “keep to the specific guidelines and orders of the Health Ministry to help contain the outbreak of the coronavirus.”

Apparently two weddings took place illegally on Tuesday night, one of which was for the grandson of a Chasidic Rebbe and the other for the son of a prominent donor from Williamsburg. Police arrested the person responsible for organizing the second wedding. The tweets here belong to two Chareidi Israeli journalists, Yair Sharki and Eli Shlezinger. Sharki wrote regarding the first wedding that “this is not just negligence or ignorance but willful trampling and flaunting of all the precautionary measures. The first to be hit will be the celebrators and their families and then the rest of us.”

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