Jewish Ledger
Happy Purim 5781
By Judie Jacobson
(JTA) – In 2020, Purim began on the evening of March 9, just before the country shut down to stop the spread of the coronavirus. For some Jewish communities, the holiday was the first celebrated over Zoom. For others, the typical parties gave way to more somber, hand sanitizer-soaked services, stripped of the raucousness that characterizes the holiday. By the following Shabbat, they had canceled in-person services, too.
A year later, the holiday is symbolic of one thing for everyone: an entire Jewish calendar year in which the holidays, the Shabbats and all the rituals in between have been adapted under the burden of the pandemic and its restrictions.
الجيش الإسرائيلي يهدم منزل فلسطيني متهم بقتل مستوطنة يهودية-فرنسية
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He sufrido un linchamiento que ha dañado a mi familia
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Special police forces enter a home in the Palestinian town of Tura to arrest a man suspected of murdering Israeli Esther Horgen (Israel Police)
Police released footage Monday of last week’s arrest of a Palestinian man suspected in the murder of Israeli Esther Horgen. The suspect was apprehended in the town of Tura in the northern West Bank on Thursday.
The video includes a helmet camera view of the nighttime operation by the Yamam counter-terrorism unit in Tura, as well as later daylight searches by soldiers, and the man being put into a military vehicle.
The man is suspected of murdering Horgen last Sunday and has reportedly confessed and provided details of the crime. Horgen, 52, a mother of six, went for a run in the Reihan forest near her home in the settlement of Tal Menashe on Sunday afternoon and did not return, whereupon her husband, Benjamin, notified the police. Her body, which bore signs of violence, was found in the forest in the early hours of Mond