Tag: COVID-19
Jewish Federations of North America launches national effort for nonprofits in crisis
Following the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the largest emergency aid package in U.S. history, the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) has announced a national program to help Jewish...
As corona advances through Efrat, residents buckle down on individual home fronts
Less than 20 kilometers south of Jerusalem in the Gush Etzion bloc, the community of Efrat and its 13,000 inhabitants made headlines this week as having one of the highest levels of coronavirus-infected residents...
Report: Israel may require public to wear masks when leaving home
As Israel suffered its 16th death from the coronavirus on Monday evening with 4,695 people infected, the Health Ministry is considering to require the public to where surgical masks when going outside.
Until now, the...
Hamas prepares for mass quarantines in Gaza Strip
In order to protect the Gaza Strip population of 2 million people from the spread of the coronavirus, Hamas is rushing to build two huge quarantine centers.
Hamas ordered the facilities to be built after...
Online Judaism: A guide for parents on engaging Jewishly in the time of corona
It wasn’t so long ago when life was so over-the-top busy that you longed for some quiet unstructured time with your children.
The coronavirus pandemic has granted that wish.
And then some.
With no end in sight...
Don’t break quarantine in the name of Judaism
“A clever person sees evil and hides, but simpletons pass on and are punished” — Proverbs 22:3.
This verse was cited by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horodoker, writing from Tiberias in the aftermath of an epidemic...
New dispatch center launched by Israel’s ‘largest humanitarian-aid group’
With the coronavirus pandemic isolating thousands of at-risk Israelis in their homes, United Hatzalah—the independent, nonprofit Emergency Medical Service (EMS) organization—opened a “humanitarian emergency center” on March 25 to help coordinate and deliver food...
Report: Mossad secures ventilators, vital medical equipment from undisclosed source
Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has managed to secure an array of critical medical equipment necessary to combat the country’s coronavirus outbreak, Hebrew media reported on Monday.
According to the reports, 25,000 N-95 respirator masks, 20,000...
Netanyahu self-isolating after aide diagnosed with coronavirus
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went into self-quarantine on Monday after a parliamentary aide tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), though it does not appear that she posed an infection risk to him, Israeli officials...
Report: Israel to open quarantine hotels for ultra-Orthodox COVID-19 patients
Two “quarantine hotels” are being prepared to house ultra-Orthodox coronavirus patients in Israel beginning on Tuesday, Hebrew media reported on Monday.
The hotels, which according to Channel 12 will be located in Bnei Brak and Beit Shemesh,...