Tag: China
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
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...
Worried about coronavirus, Israel bars foreigners from high-risk countries
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...
Former Israeli defense official calls for joining of US and Russia to roll back...
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 sends protective gear to Chabad in China amid coronavirus outbreak
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...
Corona and the Chinese ambassador’s Holocaust chutzpah
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...
Netanyahu holds national preparedness meeting over coronavirus outbreak
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...
Jewish residents and tourists in China face spread of deadly coronavirus
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...
US administration prompts Israel to form committee to monitor Chinese investments
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...
Why Jews should care about the Hong Kong democracy protests
It’s more than 30 years since pro-democracy student demonstrators were brutally crushed by Chinese security forces in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square—a graphic sign that while communism was in the process of collapsing elsewhere in the...