Daily Archives: March 30, 2020
As death toll rises, Israel braces for ‘5,000 patients on ventilators’
As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Israel continues to rise, Israeli health workers are saying that the worst may have yet to come. As of Monday, there were 4,347 confirmed cases of...
Nurses in training enlisted to help with corona patients
Given the anticipated shortages of hospital staff able to treat those infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Israeli Ministry of Health has asked nursing schools across the country to train their students in respiratory...
Tens of thousands view prayer online at Western Wall to end coronavirus
A total of 50,000 people watched a prayer service online that took place at the Western Wall on Wednesday evening (29 Adar on the Jewish calendar), when dozens of worshipers prayed for the end of the...
Amazon reverses ban, still selling Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
Amazon is still selling editions of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, reversing a recent ban.
A spokesperson for the online retailer told The New York Times last week that the company enables “customers with access to a variety of viewpoints,” adding that...
YIVO goes live on Facebook! Here’s this week’s schedule
Monday, March 30, 1:00pm (EST):
Ben Kaplan (Director of Education) and Stefanie Halpern (Director of the YIVO Archives) discuss our online class, Oh Mama, I'm in Love! The Story of the Yiddish Stage
Tuesday, March 31, 1:00pm (EST):
Stefanie Halpern (Director of...
Being Consumed By That Which We Want To Consume
The elephant in the room of public discourse today is obviously the Corona virus. We are bombarded with so much information about the disease, as if all the information in the world could truly...