(JTA) – In the latest tug of war over how to handle rising COVID-19 cases in New York City, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered schools in nine ZIP codes to close starting Tuesday. That deadline is a day earlier than that set by Mayor Bill de Blasio — and equally irrelevant for the hundreds…
(JTA) — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to three scientists who identified the hepatitis C virus. The prize was awarded Monday to Harvey Alter of the National Institutes of Health, Michael Houghton of the University of Alberta, and Charles Rice of Rockefeller University. “The Nobel Laureates’ discovery of Hepatitis C virus is a…
(JTA) — Israel is set to honor the couple who rescued Jewish film director Roman Polanski from the Holocaust. A grandson of Stefania and Jan Buchała will accept the medal naming them posthumously as Righteous Among the Nations, a title that Israel confers on non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis,…
(JTA) — Leading Israeli rabbis prayed at the Western Wall for President Donald Trump’s recovery from the coronavirus. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, the rabbi of the Western Wall, recited a traditional Jewish prayer for healing on Trump’s behalf on Monday morning, days after the American president announced he had contracted the virus. Israel’s two chief rabbis…
Donald Trump wondered on his way to Walter Reed Medical Center Friday whether he was “going out” like a Syrian-Jewish businessman friend who died of COVID-19 in April. The question highlights the likely severity of Trump’s case of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, even as he has sought to project strength to his…
(JTA) — Aaron Coleman, the 20-year-old Jewish student and Democratic nominee for a state House seat in Kansas, was arrested in 2015 for threatening to shoot a female student at a local high school. The revelations about the arrest further detail Coleman’s history of harassing woman. This summer, Coleman admitted to calling a girl fat…
(JTA) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday that the city will re-impose a COVID lockdown, which will include the closing of schools and nonessential businesses, in several neighborhoods with large Orthodox Jewish populations. The lockdown will last two to four weeks in parts of Far Rockaway, Queens and Kew Gardens in…
Some white supremacists are saying Trump’s willingness to cater to Jews and be close to them is the reason he tested positive for COVID-19 diagnosis, according to extremist social media posts and the experts who track such sentiment on the internet. JJ MacNab, a fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, tweeted summaries of…
President Donald Trump condemned white supremacy during a televised phone interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday night, then quickly pivoted to equating white supremacists with left-wing activists. “I condemn the KKK, I condemn all White Supremacists, I condemn the Proud Boys,” the president said, though he still maintained that he knows little about the group…
Donald Trump went maskless at a fundraiser at his New Jersey golf club in Bedminster Wednesday evening, a day before he tested positive for coronavirus, according to a Jewish Republican donor who attended the event. Dr. Richard Roberts, a retired pharmaceutical executive, told the Asbury Park Press that Trump was separated from the attendees of…
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the foremost rabbinic leaders in the haredi Orthodox Jewish community in Israel and a major authority for communities in the United States, tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Yeshiva World News. The 93-year-old rabbi was tested after multiple members of his family tested positive, as did his personal driver….
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