Corey Levitan
By Corey Levitan
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News A Jewish charity donates COVID supplies to Native Americans
In late April, 2,000 surgical masks and 1,000 medical-grade plastic face shields arrived on the reservation of the Dine/Navajo Nation — enough to protect all medical personnel and first responders on the reservation. The unlikely sender? A half-Navajo, half-Jewish-led nonprofit. Indigenous Bridges forges relationships between diaspora Jewish communities and indigenous communities in North America, the…
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News Letter from Las Vegas: Why reopening the Vegas Strip is a bad gamble
According to Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, the lockdown of her city due to coronavirus is “insanity.” To Her Honor, then, sanity is defined as completely reopening a city that depends on strangers from random cities gambling, dining and watching entertainment in close proximity, while in the throes of the deadliest and most contagious worldwide…
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News A wardrobe artist makes masks for quarantined Holocaust survivors
The gift she hoisted with a string onto the balcony of her two-bedroom condo was the closest to human contact Ursula Israelski had come in a month. It was a face mask sewn by Sandy Scheller, former wardrobe tech for Cirque du Soleil’s “Zumanity” in Las Vegas, and it came with the bonus of a…
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