Tag: Coronavirus
Program focuses on Jewish teen wellness during Mental Health Awareness Month
The Jewish community is bringing the power of compassion to National Mental Health Awareness Month.
A project of the Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Funder Collaborative for the second year in a row, “Collective Compassion” shares...
Israeli Health Ministry set to vaccinate next cohort, 12- to 15-year-olds
The Israeli Ministry of Health is stepping up preparations to begin vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds against the coronavirus, N12 reported on Tuesday.
The preparations began after health authorities in Israel learned that the U.S. Food and Drug...
First cases of Brazilian, Chilean coronavirus variants detected in Israel
The Brazilian variant of the Covid-19 virus was detected in Israel for the first time on Monday, in a vaccinated adult and an infant entering the country from abroad. One case of the Chilean...
A Time For Candor: What Have We Learned From The Pandemic?
“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)
By definition, Covid-19 has been a crisis of biology. Nonetheless, certain core explanations for American...
IDF records zero positive coronavirus cases for first time since onset of pandemic
The Israel Defense Forces announced on Sunday that for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic reached Israel in March 2020, not a single soldier had tested positive for the virus.
The military credited its...
JDC responds to surge of coronavirus cases in India
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in coordination with the Indian Jewish community and its local partner SEWA Cooperative Federation, is responding to the surge of coronavirus cases in India by deploying ventilators to...
IsraAID to provide oxygen concentrators, supplies to India in midst of COVID crisis
In response to the devastating coronavirus outbreak in India, now at the epicenter of the pandemic, IsraAID will provide urgently needed medical supplies to the beleaguered nation.
According to the World Health Organization’s weekly epidemiological...
Israeli data shows Pfizer vaccine 97 percent effective against British variant
Israeli medical data has shown that the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is 97 percent effective against the British variant of the coronavirus, the founder of BioNTech said on Wednesday.
Dr. Ugur Sahin, the co-founder of BioNTech,...
Israel sends medical delegation to COVID-stricken Uruguay
A delegation from Israel’s Sheba Medical Center traveled to Uruguay on Monday to share the experience acquired in Israel on combating the coronavirus crisis.
Uruguay, which has a population of just 3.46 million, has recently...
Birthright Israel to resume trips for vaccinated Americans in May
Birthright Israel announced on Monday that it will resume trips to Israel beginning in May for all eligible adults from the United States who are vaccinated or fully recovered from the coronavirus.
According to Birthright,...