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A volunteer prepares meals at Chasdei Kaduri Jewish Food Bank in Toronto in November 2020. Shawn Goldberg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.

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Observation
Jack Wertheimer
June 28 2021
About the author

Jack Wertheimer is professor of American Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His latest book, The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice their Religion Today, has been issued recently as a paperback.

This is the third in a series of articles on the impact of the pandemic on different sectors of American Jewish life. Earlier ones may be found here and here.

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