Tag: COVID-19
Canadian Jews slam T-shirts comparing coronavirus vaccines to Holocaust
The Jewish community in Canada is outraged over a T-shirt created by a Vancouver woman that attempts to compare vaccinations against COVID-19 to the Holocaust, Canadian television network CTV News reported on Saturday.
TV producer Susan Standfield...
Israel’s climbing R rate clouds plans to reopen economy
Israel’s Health Ministry on Monday reported that the COVID-19 virus’s reproduction rate had risen back to one. The increasing transmission rate calls into question government plans to gradually reopen the economy following the country’s...
Who’s legitimizing the vaccine blood libel?
Don’t put all the blame on “Saturday Night Live” and Michael Che.
One of the show’s head writers and the co-host of its “Weekend Update” skit was guilty of spreading a hateful smear of Israel during the show’s most...
Get vaccinated now; the Torah commands it
During my visits to coronavirus wards at hospitals across Israel, I encountered a most worrying statistic. All of the hospitalized were relatively young people who had not been vaccinated. A few minutes after one...
Israeli Health Ministry launches vaccination drive for Masa participants
Recent efforts by the Masa Israel Journey organization and the Jewish Agency to petition Israel’s Health Ministry came to fruition on Wednesday with the launch of a vaccination program for Masa participants currently residing...
Netanyahu: Children under 16 likely to be vaccinated by summer
Israel will reach a critical milestone by the end of March and the beginning of April in the nationwide effort to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel Hayom.
Netanyahu said that he...
United Hatzalah to suspend volunteers who decline vaccination
Eli Beer, founder and president of United Hatzalah, Israel’s largest volunteer-based emergency medical service, ordered all chapter heads nationwide—Jewish, Muslim and Christian, both secular and religious—to make sure that all of the volunteers in their...
Cabinet approves Purim curfew to head off COVID-19 outbreak
Israel’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a nighttime curfew for the Purim holiday weekend in an attempt to forestall a spike in COVID-19 infections due to parties and gatherings. Starting Thursday night, the eve of...
A safe ‘simcha’: Finding joy in a pandemic Purim
Last Purim, a mask was just a costume and not a medical device.
For most back then, the coronavirus was just another item on the nightly news. So, as usual, Jews the world over donned...
A gag about Israel and vaccines is more than a bad joke
A comedian telling a bad joke that hurts someone’s feelings isn’t news. Or at least it didn’t use to be. But when the bad joke validates a lie that is fueling the latest anti-Semitic...