Daily Archives: April 1, 2020
Romania Jewish community given rabbinical permission for Shabbat burials
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...
IsraAID partners with Rome Jewish community to help frontline workers, volunteers
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...
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...
A pandemic Passover without family? Not necessarily
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...
Indifferent to human suffering?
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....
Is Israel on its way to a 4th election?
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 confirms unrestricted entry of hundreds from pandemic hot spots
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,...
21st Israeli dies of COVID-19 as cases reach 5,591; unemployment hits record highs
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...
Professor tells Hezbollah TV: COVID-19 may have leaked from US lab
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...
‘Israel’s High Court has long ago taken over the discretion of the executive power’
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...