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Bnei Brak, Israel, on April 3, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

‘Bnei Brak is facing a serious crisis, we need to work quicker’

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“We are currently undertaking delaying actions. We have to increase significantly the number of tests we’re carrying out in Bnei Brak. If this does not happen immediately, we will face a far more severe...
The empty Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on April 4, 2020. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Number of coronavirus cases in Israel exceeds 8,000 as death toll continues to rise

Israel’s COVID-19 death toll stands at 47, with 8,018 confirmed cases of infection, according to Israel’s Health Ministry. Of the confirmed cases, 7,195 patients are listed as being in mild condition, 173 in moderate...
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What Do We Do Now? Larger Lessons From The Pandemic

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“The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1971) To survive and prosper after Covid-19 – a pandemic with pertinent political as...
Palestinian Authority security forces patrol the empty streets of Ramallah in the West Bank, on March 23, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Israel-PA cooperation on coronavirus is encouraging, but will it last?

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One thing is for sure: COVID-19 does not respect borders, or armistice lines for that matter. The deadly coronavirus strain that has already killed over 50,000 people around the world has yet to wreak...

Programme des séminaires : Yo mit alemen !

Programme des séminaires autour de thèmes littéraires organisé par la Maison de la culture yiddish du 11 avril au 3 mai 2020 אַ ריי אינטערנעץ־ סעמינאַרן פֿונעם פּאַריזער ייִדיש־צענטער Avec Yitskhok Niborski, Sharon Bar-Kochva, Tal Hever-Chybowski...

Folksbiene! LIVE Tonite

Experience Yiddish sketch comedy Monday, April 6 @7:00PM "Kvarentin Shmarentin" or "Humor on Kovid" Featuring Leyzer Burko, Motl Didner and Elize-Rokhl Dorter, with musical interludes by Zalmem Mlotek. Presented with English translation subtitles. Watch again or for the first...

Le Soudanais Abd Al-Hayy Yousouf : Nous ne pouvons normaliser les relations avec les...

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L’islamologue soudanais Abd Al-Hayy Youssouf déclarait, dans une interview diffusée le 5 février 2020 sur la chaîne Tayba (Soudan), que l’expression « normalisation » laissait penser que les musulmans auraient eu des relations...

L’antisémitisme en France – 3ème partie : Actes antisémites et relocalisation

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Avant-Propos Dans le contexte de la crise mondiale du coronavirus, de la montée du complotisme, des populismes et des extrémismes dans le monde et en France notamment, MEMRI publie une étude en 10 parties sur...
Jewish singer-songwriter Adam Schlesinger died on April 1 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., at the age of 52 as a result of complications of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Source: Screenshot.

Grammy, Emmy-winning songwriter Adam Schlesinger dies of corona complications

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Jewish singer-songwriter Adam Schlesinger died on April 1 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., at the age of 52 as a result of complications of the coronavirus, his family announced. Schlesinger, born in Manhattan on Oct. 31, 1967...
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.

Preparing for my first Passover without family

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“Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. If we refused, or rather used up, such paltry information as...