This is the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
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News Anti-Semitic hackers are exploiting quarantine to infiltrate Jewish online meetings
Cindy Goldberg, a school board president, was waiting for a virtual meeting to begin on Zoom Tuesday night when hackers started posting cartoon images of Hitler, photos of Nazi soldiers and swastikas to parents, board members and other staff for the school district sandwiched between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. “Awful doesn’t begin to touch…
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Fast Forward Trump found a fan in Jewish doctor successfully treating coronavirus symptoms
When President Trump’s new chief of staff contacted the Jewish doctor treating coronavirus symptoms in upstate New York, he found more than a creative medical professional whose off-label experiment had potential. He found an ardent defender of the president, as some of his recent social media activity indicates. Zelenko’s cocktail of anti-malarial drugs and antibiotics…
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Fast Forward Sign of what’s to come? This JCC laid off 176 people because of coronavirus
(JTA) — On Day 1 of the state-mandated shutdown in Pennsylvania, Amy Krulik tried to strike an upbeat tone. To stop the spread of the coronavirus, the Kaiserman Jewish Community Center outside Philadelphia had been shuttered starting March 13. Its 178 employees were sent home for at least two weeks. Krulik, the center’s CEO, acknowledged…
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News Who was that alone on the bimah on Shabbat? The (non-Jewish) governor of Massachusetts.
It’s not every Shabbat that the governor of a state gives the sermon at a local synagogue. It’s even more unusual when he’s speaking to a near-empty sanctuary. But that’s what happened last Friday night, March 20 at Temple Emanuel in Newton, Mass., one of the myriad ways Shabbat is changing in the coronavirus era….
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Fast Forward Facebook map shows Lakewood, an Orthodox stronghold in New Jersey, spreading coronavirus
(JTA) — The coronavirus pandemic has spurred anti-Semitic chatter connected to Lakewood, a New Jersey township with a large Orthodox population, on social networks. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy responded by condemning racism connected to the coronavirus. “Scapegoating, bullying, or vilification of any community is completely unacceptable – today or ever,” Murphy wrote on Twitter….
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Fast Forward For Italian Jews, the ‘smell of death’ is all around
(JTA) — At least twice a day, Micol Naccache breaks down in tears over what the coronavirus is doing to her city of Milan and its Jewish community. A high school teacher and mother of two, Naccache describes herself as “an optimistic person.” But she is struggling to stay positive following the death of one…
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Culture Daily distraction: Broadway hits, Copland in concert and Passover crafts
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. We made it through another week. Here in New York, we’re finally getting early spring…
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Life In Leviticus, an unexpected lesson in surviving quarantine
Up until two weeks ago, I thought that Vayikra, Leviticus, was the least relevant – and the most alienating – of the Books of Moses. After all, why would I want to read about animal sacrifices and types of impurity? What do the endless litanies of priestly rituals have to do with my actual life?…
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Opinion I was interrogated by Israeli authorities — I know why they’re terrified of peace activists like me
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