Despite the passage of time, he seems to be falling deeper into this dark mode
Moderated by Faigy Peritzman
My son-in-law is a sweet, unassuming guy, whom we love and admire. He comes from a very well-known family of askanim, people who are well-meaning, yet strong minded and action-oriented. We’ve always been impressed how he’s developed a strong self, despite family pressure and prominence. It’s essential to him to be independent, and we respect that need.
Recently, his rosh yeshivah, a great talmid chacham and an incredible individual, was niftar. While we all mourned his passing, my son-in-law, who was especially close with him, hasn’t managed to pull himself out of his mourning. Where once he was an avid masmid, trying to fit in learning at all hours of the day, now he feels like without the goal of pleasing his rebbi, he’s lost his drive to accomplish. Whenever he needs to make a decision, he gets paralyzed, shrugging aimlessly, and saying, “How should I know? I�
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An Orthodox Jewish wedding taking place in contravention to COVID-19 restrictions at the Hilton Chicago Northbrook hotel, December 2, 2020. (Screen capture: CBSN Chicago)
JTA Officials in the Chicago area are struggling to uncover whether an Orthodox Jewish wedding that violated public health restrictions led to new COVID-19 cases in the hard-hit city.
About 150 guests attended the wedding in a Chicago suburb on December 2 at a time when 14.8% of COVID-19 tests in the surrounding county were coming back positive.
The wedding made local news as the latest in a series of events in Orthodox communities that have defied public health guidance and local ordinances. But public health officials charged with tracking the spread of the coronavirus said last week that they had been unable to obtain a list of guests who would need to quarantine or even the name of the bride and groom.
An oversized wedding in Chicago has divided Orthodox Jews and foiled contact tracers December 15, 2020 5:32 pm Workers test residents for COVID-19 and its antibodies at a mobile test site in Chicago, Dec. 12, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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(JTA) Officials in the Chicago area are struggling to uncover whether an Orthodox Jewish wedding that violated public health restrictions led to new COVID-19 cases in the hard-hit city.
About 150 guests attended the wedding in a Chicago suburb on Dec. 2 at a time when 14.8% of COVID tests in the surrounding county were coming back positive.
The wedding made local news as the latest in a series of events in Orthodox communities that have defied public health guidance and local ordinances. But public health officials charged with tracking the spread of the coronavirus said last week that they had been unable to obtain a list of guests who would need to quarantine or even the name of the bride and