Volume # 81

Summer 2021(5781) 5781

In this issue
Quarantining in a Crunch
Kashrut

Quarantining in a Crunch

When Covid broke in March 2020, I had one overriding concern: how would we supervise a massive cheese plant in the Midwest?

On Covid’s Jewish Frontlines: The Pandemic Classroom
Cover Story

On Covid’s Jewish Frontlines: The Pandemic Classroom

Rabbi Ari Schonfeld By Steve Lipman Two days after Covid forced Yeshiva Beis Hillel of Passaic to close its doors, Rabbi Ari Schonfeld went online. His eighth-grade class at the northern New Jersey day school missed “one day, maybe two,” before he resumed teaching on Zoom. A week after the school closed, Rabbi Schonfeld went […]

On Covid’s Jewish Frontlines: Leadership During Covid
Cover Story

On Covid’s Jewish Frontlines: Leadership During Covid

Rabbi Mordechai Willig By Sandy Eller Posekim are no strangers to dealing with life-and-death questions posed to them by shul rabbanim as various situations arise. But as the pandemic struck, there were numerous instances when Rabbi Mordechai Willig found himself juggling well over a dozen such she’eilot simultaneously, a situation that was anything but common. […]