Daily Archives: March 30, 2020
Online Judaism: A guide for parents on engaging Jewishly in the time of corona
It wasn’t so long ago when life was so over-the-top busy that you longed for some quiet unstructured time with your children.
The coronavirus pandemic has granted that wish.
And then some.
With no end in sight...
Welcome online faces to Passover ‘bruncheon’
This year, I’m not going overboard. I’m not even using my late mother’s dinner service for 20; instead, it’s plastic ware. Everything has changed in the era of corona, Passover included.
Yet we must celebrate...
Why is Mnuchin pushing for a return to appeasement of Iran?
The tyrants of Tehran are in trouble. The coronavirus pandemic has hit Iran particularly hard. That’s due, in no small measure to the fact that, like their counterparts in China, the theocrats running the...
Don’t break quarantine in the name of Judaism
“A clever person sees evil and hides, but simpletons pass on and are punished” — Proverbs 22:3.
This verse was cited by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horodoker, writing from Tiberias in the aftermath of an epidemic...
New dispatch center launched by Israel’s ‘largest humanitarian-aid group’
With the coronavirus pandemic isolating thousands of at-risk Israelis in their homes, United Hatzalah—the independent, nonprofit Emergency Medical Service (EMS) organization—opened a “humanitarian emergency center” on March 25 to help coordinate and deliver food...
Report: Mossad secures ventilators, vital medical equipment from undisclosed source
Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has managed to secure an array of critical medical equipment necessary to combat the country’s coronavirus outbreak, Hebrew media reported on Monday.
According to the reports, 25,000 N-95 respirator masks, 20,000...
ADL: Virtual meetings being disrupted by anti-Semites
With the coronavirus pandemic pushing meetings to go virtual, anti-Semites have taken the opportunity to disrupt them on the video conferencing platform Zoom, according to a report on Sunday from the Anti-Defamation League.
The ADL cited one...
Netanyahu self-isolating after aide diagnosed with coronavirus
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went into self-quarantine on Monday after a parliamentary aide tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), though it does not appear that she posed an infection risk to him, Israeli officials...
Report: Israel to open quarantine hotels for ultra-Orthodox COVID-19 patients
Two “quarantine hotels” are being prepared to house ultra-Orthodox coronavirus patients in Israel beginning on Tuesday, Hebrew media reported on Monday.
The hotels, which according to Channel 12 will be located in Bnei Brak and Beit Shemesh,...
Yamina threatens to ‘topple Netanyahu’ if new government is not to their liking
As Israel’s Likud and Blue and White parties continue their efforts to cobble together a national unity government, many in the right-wing bloc expressed concerns about the large number of portfolios Blue and White leader Benny...