Tag: COVID-19
Israel’s train system to return to full service on June 8
Israeli Transportation Minister Miri Regev and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein agreed on Sunday to return Israel’s train system to full service on June 8 and increase the passenger limit for buses, as part of...
First coronavirus-related death reported in Gaza Strip
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced the first coronavirus-related death in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
The deceased was a 77-year-old woman who had been placed in a special field hospital near the Rafah border crossing...
The corona cocoon: An inclusion icon shares quarantine best practices
This surreal spring season has been all about statistics. While analyzing the rates of infection and fatality, we have also been calculating the risks inherent in numerous daily activities and advising against those that will...
UK teen who had virtual ‘Friends’ bar mitzvah gets video visit from sitcom star
The first line in the opening theme song of the former TV sitcom “Friends” goes “so no one told you life was gonna be this way”—a sentiment many are feeling amid the coronavirus pandemic...
Cruz calls for DOJ probe into de Blasio closing unapproved opening of yeshivah
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Tuesday called for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over the New York Police Department shutting down an Orthodox Jewish school that opened...
De Blasio comes under scrutiny for another tweet directed at Jewish community
For the second time in almost as many weeks, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has come under scrutiny for actions some say are targeting the more than 1 million Jews in the...
Aliyah increases in midst of coronavirus pandemic
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem is currently supporting the Jewish Agency for Israel and Keren Hayesod with bringing an unexpected wave in aliyah amid the coronavirus pandemic.
It has already sponsored flights for 601 Jewish immigrants since...
America’s Existential Challenge: Pandemic, War and Law
From the beginnings of his crudely acrimonious presidency, Donald Trump has actively undermined US foreign policy relationships. On urgently key matters of world politics and international law, Mr. Trump’s typically invalid conclusions have generally...
Will the movements survive the pandemic?
It sounds like a good business plan. With American Jewish religious denominations facing agonizing budget decisions in the coming year as a result of the financial losses they are all suffering in the wake...
‘Shut-in’ Shavuot in time of corona
We’re masked, gloved and social distancing. I’ve exhausted all programs I want to see on Netflix. I’ve filled garbage bags with clothes that are too small, packed up old books and gone through drawers...