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Daily Archives: April 1, 2020

The Great Synagogue of Constanța in Romania. Credit: Wikipedia.

Romania Jewish community given rabbinical permission for Shabbat burials

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The Jewish community of Bucharest, Romania, received a rabbinical exception to bury those who have died as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on Shabbat to help bypass Romanian government orders on Friday that such victims...
A general view of Rome on Feb 09, 2018. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.

IsraAID partners with Rome Jewish community to help frontline workers, volunteers

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The Israeli humanitarian aid organization IsraAID is providing support to frontline medical professionals and volunteers in the organization’s emergency units responding to the coronavirus crisis in Italy with the launch of webinars on stress...
Columbia University. Credit: Pixabay.

Coronvavirus shuts down campuses, thwarts ‘apartheid week.’ BDS expands influence in political races and...

Analysis The coronavirus pandemic that began in China has now engulfed the entire world. Among the casualties was higher education in North America. Campuses have shut down and courses have been moved online. What this $600...
More seders may take place in 2020, yet without extended family and friends due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. March 29, 2010. Photo by Flash90.

A pandemic Passover without family? Not necessarily

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Every year on Passover, Jews ask the same question that is at the heart of the recitation of the Haggadah during the seder: Why is this night different from all other nights? But this...
Русский: Фото: Михаил Евстафьев English: Photo: Mikhail Evstafiev / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

Indifferent to human suffering?

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A Palestinian activist’s harsh response to the first Israeli fatality from the coronavirus has sparked some controversy. It’s a tempest in a teapot, but it also contains an important lesson or two. The activist, Ms....
Photo: Israeli 2013 election ballots (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Is Israel on its way to a 4th election?

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Deafened under the constant drumbeat of the virus crisis has been the ongoing efforts to form a new Israeli unity government. What was perceived over a week ago as a quick solution between the Bibi-led...
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett meets with commanders of the Israel Defense Forces, including IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, after completing a tour of the West Bank to assess the security situation ahead of the reveal of U.S. President Donald Trump's Mideast peace plan. Source: Screenshot.

Israeli defense minister confirms unrestricted entry of hundreds from pandemic hot spots

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Hundreds of Israelis returning from countries with high coronavirus infection rates have entered Israel without being tested or sent into quarantine, Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett admitted on Tuesday. He was responding to a Channel 12 report,...
Israeli workers disinfect the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 virus, March 31, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

21st Israeli dies of COVID-19 as cases reach 5,591; unemployment hits record highs

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As Israel saw its 21st coronavirus fatality on Wednesday and confirmed infections in the country hit 5,591, the Israel National Employment Service (INES) announced that the number of unemployment claimants has exceeded 1 million...
University of Wisconsin-Parkside sociology professor Seif Da’na. Source: Screenshot.

Professor tells Hezbollah TV: COVID-19 may have leaked from US lab

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The COVID-19 virus may have leaked from Fort Detrick, a U.S. Army installation in Maryland, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside told Hezbollah’s Manar TV on Sunday. Palestinian American professor Seif Da’na, who was...
Speaker of the Israeli parliament Yuli Edelstein gives a press statement in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on January 12, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘Israel’s High Court has long ago taken over the discretion of the executive power’

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Last Wednesday morning, then-Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein knew he was about to do something unprecedented. Not only in Israeli terms but also internationally, there aren’t many instances of the head of a country’s legislature resigning in...