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The following story will move Monday as this week’s Tuesday Spotlight, a feature showcasing the best off-the-news enterprise in the AP report:

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ISRAEL-JEWISH LAW

JERUSALEM — For Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, coronavirus restrictions have raised numerous questions about how to maintain their religious lifestyle during the outbreak. A religious publisher in Jerusalem has released a book with over 600 pages of guidance from 46 different rabbis on topics ranging from socially distanced circumcisions (allowed) to Passover Seders over Zoom on the holiday (forbidden) to praying with a quorum from a balcony (it’s complicated). For hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews, opinions by prominent rabbis often carry great significance in daily life within the community. By Ilan Ben Zion. UPCOMING: 950 words, photos.

—The AP