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News 10 Jews who died of COVID-19
The U.S. death toll from the COVID-19 is fast approaching or has already passed 1 million. Jews — at about 2% of the population — are the religious group with the lowest rate of vaccine hesitancy. Yet the community has been hit hard. Health agencies don’t keep track of deaths by religion, but the number…
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News The creator of ‘Faces of Covid’ calls for a better monument to the dead than his own
One million. The U.S. is approaching or has already surpassed that number of COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, according to most calculations — a new order of magnitude of loss that is difficult to grasp. When the U.S. reached 100,000 COVID victims, The New York Times dedicated its entire front page to…
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News Missed the Seder because you caught Covid? You weren’t alone.
I strolled into my parents’ home Friday afternoon about six hours before Seder, only to find them seated in the living room looking rather concerned. “Molly has Covid,” my mom said. Oh. My sister had gotten in from New York the night before. My parents had picked her up. Then she came down with a…
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Opinion I lost my dad to COVID. Opening up to a stranger helped me heal — and appreciate my Jewish community even more.
To Denise, I was an open book. For almost a year, through the endless blur that followed the first COVID shutdown, I shared with her the intimate details of my life. No, she wasn’t my psychologist, rabbi or spouse. She’s a sociologist running an oral history project. In April 2020, my dad died from COVID….
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News Entering a third pandemic year, Jews see reasons to hope — and stay cautious
Julia Métraux, now 24, first started having severe fatigue and chronic pain about six years ago — symptoms that led to her eventual diagnosis with vasculitis, which involves inflammation of the blood vessels, in January 2018. She was hospitalized for a week and then bedridden for six months. Her medical needs made it necessary for…
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News A maskless Los Angeles rabbi draws ire of parents angry over COVID-19 rules
When Rabbi David Wolpe, the leader of Sinai Temple, accepted a free ticket to the Super Bowl he never imagined it would cause weeks of turmoil at his Los Angeles congregation. But Wolpe was forced to apologize after he posed maskless for a photo at the event — in contravention of Los Angeles County regulations…
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Culture Soup Nazis? Marjorie Taylor Greene calls out Pelosi’s ‘gazpacho police’ in a gaffe best served cold
It’s becoming clearer by the day that Marjorie Taylor Greene learned nothing from her obligatory visit to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in D.C., made after she likened the Holocaust to mask mandates – but she may have picked up a soup recipe there. In an interview Tuesday night, Greene was heard comparing Nazis and Nancy…
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Fast Forward A complete list of every time RFK Jr. has compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared the threat of 5G cell service and so-called vaccine passports to the Third Reich on Sunday, in his latest instance of invoking the Holocaust while peddling conspiracies theories about vaccines. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you can hide in the attic like Anne Frank…
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