Jewish pilgrims gather at a lake to perform Tashlikh, an atonement ritual that involves symbolically casting one's sins into a body of water, during the Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman's tomb in Uman, Ukraine on Monday. Despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a reported 23,000 adherents made the trip, which was complicated by the grounding of civilian aviation throughout Ukraine. Pete Kiehart for NPR hide caption
Palestinian workers clean dirt off sweet potatoes to prepare them for export to the West Bank. Fatima Shbair for NPR hide caption
Members of the Orthodox Jewish community gather around a journalist as he conducts an interview on a street corner, last Wednesday, in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo moved to reinstate restrictions on businesses, houses of worship and schools in and near areas where coronavirus cases are spiking. John Minchillo/AP hide caption
Hassidic Jews Socially distancing on a Willamsburg street during Saturday morning shabbat prayers on May 2. David Dee Delgado/Gothamist/WNYC hide caption
Israeli police officers wearing protective gloves and masks check papers as they enforce restrictions in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem on Tuesday, during a partial lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus infection. Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly joining a custom called Daf Yomi, Hebrew for "daily page," which involves reading a page a day of the Talmud, a centuries-old, multivolume collection of rabbinic teachings, debates and interpretations of Judaism. Here women read the last pages of the cycle at their first women's mass Talmud celebration in Jerusalem in January. Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR for NPR hide caption