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President of China Xi Jinping with Iran's leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in 2016. Credit: Official Khamenei website via Wikimedia Commons.

Lies, Transparency and Pandemics

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Has the world ever been this perfectly synchronized? Whether you wake up in an isolated hamlet in one part of the globe or a teeming city in another, whatever your language or your time...
Rabbi Shimon Freundlich has stayed behind in Beijing, China, though his family evacuated to safety overseas. While much of the expatriate Jewish community has left China, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries are still hard at work, helping local residents. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

As global health crisis worsens, Chabad of China asks for help

As the coronavirus, or COVID-19, continues its worrisome spread around the globe with more than 80 affected countries and territories, China, where the virus originated in late December, has been deeply impacted with more...

From China to Mexico, Message at Chabad Women’s Banquet Was Love

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Two weeks ago to the day, as the COVID-19 coronavirus was rapidly spreading through the Chinese city of Wuhan, Rochel Kalmenson and her husband, Rabbi Yekutiel Kalmenson, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ningbo, China, and their three young children, boarded...
Medical staff seen after the arrival of a Chinese woman to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem over suspicions she may be infected with the coronavirus, Jan. 27, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Worried about coronavirus, Israel bars foreigners from high-risk countries

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Foreigners who recently traveled to countries in Asia where the coronavirus has spread will be barred from entering Israel, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announced on Monday. Deri said that guidelines by Israel’s Ministry of Health...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Former Israeli defense official calls for joining of US and Russia to roll back...

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The next Israeli government should aim to bring the United States and Russia together to decrease Iran’s destructive influence in the region, a former senior Israeli defense official has told JNS. Professor Rear Admiral (Ret.)...
Magen David Adom responds to the request by Chabad for protective gear for communities in China amid the coronavirus outbreak, February 2020. Credit: Courtesy.

Magen David Adom sends protective gear to Chabad in China amid coronavirus outbreak

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A shipment of medical supplies from Magen David Adom in Israel were delivered on Monday morning to Chabad in China to help prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus. At the request of Chabad, Magen...
Representatives from the Israeli emergency medical services’ organization Magen David Adom pack boxes of protective gear, responding to a request by Chabad to help communities in China amid the coronavirus outbreak, February 2020. Credit: Courtesy.

Corona and the Chinese ambassador’s Holocaust chutzpah

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China’s acting ambassador to Israel came under well-deserved fire this week for invoking the Nazi genocide of the Jews to criticize Jerusalem’s preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus. At a press conference in...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discusses national preparedness regarding the coronavirus outbreak in China, and Israeli measures of limiting it if and when domestic cases are reported. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Netanyahu holds national preparedness meeting over coronavirus outbreak

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting at his office in Jerusalem with ministry director generals and staff officials on Sunday morning to discuss how to deal with the recent outbreak of coronavirus...
Rabbi Yekutiel Kalmenson of the Ningbo Jewish Center-Chabad made a trip to Shanghai, three hours away by bus, to stock up on kosher items. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Jewish residents and tourists in China face spread of deadly coronavirus

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As the death toll and emergency measures increase daily, Jewish communities in cities across China joined the population at large in the struggle to protect themselves against the new deadly coronavirus and cope with the extreme...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Beijing on March 21, 2017. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

US administration prompts Israel to form committee to monitor Chinese investments

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Israel decided on Wednesday to form a committee to monitor Chinese investments amid pressure from the Trump administration. The United States has repeatedly expressed concerns with Israel over Chinese investments in the Jewish state. Earlier this week in...