Passover During the Pandemic
By Lianne Kolirin Celebrating Passover this year will be “exceptionally difficult” says Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. The festival, lasting for eight days, is one of the most significant in the Jewish calendar and has been marked by Jews around the world since about 1300BC. But restrictions imposed to try to minimise the spread of […]
Coronavirus and religion – update 8 April 2020
By Lianne Kolirin The Board of the Jewish Chronicle has just announced that it is going into liquidation. Here’s the statement “With great sadness, the Board of the Jewish Chronicle has taken the decision to seek a creditors voluntary liquidation of Jewish Chronicle Newspapers Ltd. Despite the heroic efforts of the editorial and production team […]
