Tag: COVID-19
Synagogues grapple with putting changes in place for High Holiday services
As fall arrives and the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout the United States, prayers are very much needed, say rabbis across the Jewish spectrum, even if individuals and families cannot make it to...
Viral apathy in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference on Monday evening with Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and National Coronavirus Project coordinator Ronni Gamzu.
The purpose of the event, after...
Curfews, school closures go into effect in 40 Israeli ‘red’ cities
Nightly curfews will go into effect in 40 “red” cities and towns across Israel on Tuesday evening, amid a raft of other regulations aimed at halting the rise in new COVID-19 cases in the...
Netanyahu: Opposition leaders’ calls to ignore COVID directives will lead to anarchy
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday took opposition politicians to task for calling on the public not to cooperate with Health Ministry directives regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Such calls, said Netanyahu, would lead...
Lieberman: Israelis should flout gov’t COVID-19 directives, rely on ‘common sense’
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman urged Israelis on Monday to flout government coronavirus directives and rely on “common sense” instead.
During a meeting on Monday morning of his party’s Knesset faction, which was widely...
Haredi leaders accuse Netanyahu of ‘selective punishment’
A group of haredi leaders sent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a harshly worded letter on Sunday, warning him that they would not forgive him for casting the haredi community as “spreaders of disease.”
The letter, written by...
Social distancing in the Warsaw Ghetto
“I was told that these were human beings. They didn’t look like human beings.”
With these haunting words, the Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski recalled his agonized reaction as he walked around the Warsaw Ghetto...
US Surgeon General briefs Jewish leaders on best practices for High Holiday gatherings
The Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Jerome Adams, briefed Orthodox Jewish leaders on COVID-19 and best practices for High Holiday services during a virtual talk and Q&A session sponsored by the Orthodox...
Shofar: A love song
As first-chair trumpet in the Orville Wright Junior High School band in Los Angeles in 1966, Robbie Weinger didn’t know it, but he was training his lips for their destiny: to enable their owner...
Jewish communal institutions jump hurdles to meet social needs during corona, economic crisis
In the first few weeks of the global pandemic, the Jewish Family Service and Children’s Center Service of Passaic-Clifton, a regional JFS organization in New Jersey, saw an immediate increase in requests for food...