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Mimi Reinhard, who typed up Schindler’s list, dies at 107
Read full article: Mimi Reinhard, who typed up Schindler’s list, dies at 107Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel at the age of 107.
"Warmest human spirit": UK's former chief rabbi Sacks dies
Read full article: "Warmest human spirit": UK's former chief rabbi Sacks diesFILE - In this March 2, 2016, file photo, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks speaks at a press conference announcing his winning of the 2016 Templeton Prize, in London. Sacks, the former chief rabbi in the U.K. who reached beyond the Jewish community with his regular broadcasts on radio, has died at 72. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)LONDON – Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi in the U.K. who reached beyond the Jewish community with his regular broadcasts on radio, has died at 72. Sacks served as the chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, the figurehead of British Jews, for 22 years, stepping down in 2013. He was succeeded by the current chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, who said the world had lost an “intellectual giant who had a transformative global impact."
Second Orthodox rabbi in Surfside tests positive for COVID-19
Read full article: Second Orthodox rabbi in Surfside tests positive for COVID-19SURFSIDE, Fla. – A second Orthodox rabbi in Surfside has tested positive for the coronavirus, the Miami Herald first reported. Bal Harbour Village Mayor Gabriel Groisman confirmed on Twitter that Moshe Gruenstein, who is the rabbi at Young Israel of Bal Harbour in Surfside, tested positive Tuesday night. “I can confirm that Rabbi Gruenstein of Young Israel of Bal Harbour has also tested ‘presumptive positive’ for COVID-19 this evening,” Groisman wrote. According to Groisman, Lipskar has had one positive test and is waiting for the results of a second test, after which, if positive, the case would be confirmed and not presumptive. "Anybody that has been in touch with the rabbi during the last 14 days, we're asking them to self-isolate at this time," Groisman said.