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Cincinnati area synagogues and Jewish institutions celebrated Chanukah 5781, which ran from nightfall on Thursday, Dec. 8 through sundown on Friday, Dec. 18, with a variety of events for every age and interest, adapted for the current pandemic. The staff of The American Israelite spread out across town to cover as many of those events as possible.
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Public menorah lightings and events
On Tuesday morning, Dec. 8, Mayor John Cranley hosted his annual pre-Chanukah party in his office at city hall. Rabbi Gershon Avtzon demonstrated the lighting of the menorah and shared lessons about the holiday. This yearâs event was smaller than in the past in order to observe Covid-19 restrictions on indoor gatherings.
Faith leaders around the world who died in 2020
By David Crary and Associated Press
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file photo, Rev. Joseph Lowery speaks at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr., spoke, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
New York - The Catholic priest who for decades had been one of the Vatican’s top experts on the Latin language died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Milwaukee. A United Methodist Church bishop in the West African nation of Sierra Leone died in a traffic accident in August as he was engaged in efforts to resolve the denomination’s conflicts over inclusion of LGBTQ people. Back in March, a 49-year-old priest in Brooklyn became the first Catholic cleric in the United States killed by the coronavirus. They were among many religious leaders some admired worldwide, others beloved only locally who died in 2020. Here are some of them.
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8 Memorable Jewish Quotes from 2020
Select quotes from a tumultuous year.
2020 was filled with anguish, misery and loss – and also with moments of giving and hope. Here are eight Jewish quotes from this tumultuous year.
On Reaching Out and Helping Others
With the pandemic upending life for millions of people, communities came together like never before to help and support one another. In Pikesville, Maryland – as in countless other Jewish communities around the world – Jews organized community programs to shop for those who were sheltering in place and could not go into stores. Rabbi Shmuel Silber, leader of Congregation Toras Chaim in Pikesville, Maryland, summed up his community’s ethos:
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What a whirlwind these months have been. I work in a bookstore, and the end of the fiscal year is always intense in retail, for a variety of reasons. But when that’s accompanied with all this virus craziness (Sorry… last time I’ll mention it, I promise), and the podcast I am working on with Jewish authors, it seems that I haven’t had the time to even exhale. It would appear that this is the same sort of sentiment echoed by all kinds of people I speak with in Jerusalem. Many of us are unsure of what is to come.