Coronavirus
Jewish youth group gets swept into vaccine mandate debate
The mandate from the headquarters of Conservative Judaism’s youth movement is clear: the unvaccinated can’t participate in national and regional events. But that requirement conflicts with anti-mandate laws of a dozen states, including Florida, Texas and Georgia.
Synagogues scramble as Delta throws a wrench into High Holiday planning
Earlier this summer, Rabbi Joe Hample began writing a High Holiday sermon he can no longer deliver.
These New Yorkers were annoyed by anti-vaccine Holocaust comparisons. So they wrote a song.
“It’s a more fun way to process it than just to be screaming in your head all the time,” said the lyricist behind “The Anti-Vaxxer’s Lament.”
Anti-vaxxers have stolen an anti-Nazi group’s identity
The White Rose was a World War II group fighting the Nazis. Now anti-vaxxers, seeing themselves as freedom fighters, have taken up the mantle.
Facing the Delta variant, my congregants are lonely and afraid. We are making hard choices together
As a rabbi, I want to do the right thing for my congregation. But what is the right thing?
Synagogues made COVID-safe High Holiday plans. Then came Delta.
“Now we’re a year later and I think we’re not where we even thought we’d be this year,” said one rabbi.
Covid-busting ‘hand sanitizer for the nose’ goes on sale in Israel
This antiviral nasal spray is capable of killing 99.9% of viruses within two minutes, and may be effective against the Delta variant.
With vaccines scarce at home, Central and Latin America Jews journey to the US
The wait for a shot in their home countries could be a long.
Dropping my kids off at Jewish summer camp taught me how to let go
For the last year, I’ve done everything in my power to keep our family safe. But in the drop-off lane, I learned an important lesson about letting go.
GOP Washington state lawmaker apologizes for wearing Yellow Star of David
‘It was an idea that just didn’t execute effectively, and for that I’m terribly sorry,’ State Rep. Jim Walsh said.