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Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik attends an event in Jerusalem on August 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) JTA Three times on Sunday, January 31, Orthodox men carried the body of a beloved Torah scholar wrapped in a black and white prayer shawl through the streets of Jerusalem to a freshly dug grave. First there was Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, the 99-year-old heir to a vaunted tradition of Talmud study. A few hours later it was Rabbi Yitzchok Sheiner, the 98-year-old leader of a prominent yeshiva. And in the evening they took Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, a psychiatrist and scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, to his final resting place near Beit Shemesh. ....
48 shares The site of a mass funeral held illegally in a makeshift tent in a secret location near the borders with Egypt and the Gaza Strip, after police dispersed most participants, February 2, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter) Police busted an illegal mass wedding Tuesday held in a huge tent concealed between greenhouses near Israel’s borders with Egypt and the Gaza Strip, flouting the law and health regulations. At least 400 people attended the indoor wedding of the grandson of the late ultra-Orthodox rabbi Yoram Abergel from the town of Netivot, Democrat TV and Channel 12 news reported. Amid frequent large-scale violations of lockdown rules in the ultra-Orthodox community, the tent was built between greenhouses in a farming area, apparently in an attempt to hold the event without police intervention. ....
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Jerusalem Police Commander: Our Decision to Let Thousands Congregate in 3 Funerals Prevented Bloodshed | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | David Israel | 19 Shevat 5781 – February 1, 2021 jewishpress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jewishpress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
589 shares David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of Still Life with Bombers (2004) and A Little Too Close to God (2000), and co-author of Shalom Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin (1996). He previously edited The Jerusalem Post (2004-2011) and The Jerusalem Report (1998-2004). Ultra-Orthodox Jews carry the body of Rabbi Meshulam Soloveitchik during his funeral in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. The mass ceremony took place despite the country s health regulations banning large public gatherings, during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) So what should we do? How should we respond, as a state struggling to beat a deadly pandemic, when a sizable minority of our citizens knowingly endanger their own lives and consequently the lives of the rest of us? ....