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Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2012. If there’s no bunny in the basket, there’s no Easter. That’s Norm Candelore’s theory this time of year. People buy more chocolate bunnies at Sarris Candies than any other candy during the Easter season, and the Canonsburg candymaker builds its baskets

“This is a life-cycle event for a child,” says one party planner. Enter drive-by congratulations and, of course, Zoom.

Last year, I talked about the challenges of being confined during the Passover holiday. This year, however, we are beginning to see the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. One would naturally hope this Passover is a celebration of our liberation from both spiritual and actual confinemen… More Headlines

How the pandemic has scrambled the rabbi hiring process December 29, 2020 4:54 pm Rabbi Adir Yolkut, who is doing a yearlong rabbi-in-residence program at Temple Israel Center in White Plains, N.Y., says its been hard to assess the intangibles of prospective jobs given the impossibility of in-person visits. (Emil Cohen/Marry Me A Little Photography) Advertisement (JTA) — When Andrew Pepperstone drove to Kansas in late July to start his new job as rabbi at the Hebrew...