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 From the Forverts archives, Influenza 1918: Scenes from a Jewish drug store
Healthcare was similarly overloaded during the 1918 influenza as it is today during the coronavirus epidemic, as seen in this article originally published in the Forverts 11/6/1918. Yente Serdatsky, a staff writer at the Forverts, was a contentious figure known for her stories, novellas, and dramatic sketches. Here, she uses her descriptive talents to paint…
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Fast Forward ‘If not now, when?’ Pleading for ventilators, Cuomo quotes Hillel the Elder
As President Donald Trump faces mounting pressure to use the Defense Production Act to make private industry manufacture supplies like masks for healthcare workers and ventilators for patients, one voice has risen above the rest in a call for action against coronavirus: Hillel the Elder. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took to Twitter Tuesday to…
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News This doctor was already treating patients with Trump’s ‘gift from God’ drug – before FDA approval
On Tuesday morning, the controversial and experimental coronavirus treatment program being run by a Hasidic doctor who claimed he had kept more than 500 symptomatic patients out of the hospital was shut down. By afternoon, after intervention from the White House, it was up and running again. The doctor, Vladimir Zelenko, has been in isolation…
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Life Diary of a Day-School Mom: screen-shy, yet finding spirituality on a device?
Week Two, and online prayer is still a hard sell for all of us. It’s disappointing, because when my daughter and I dipped into it as part of the day-school distance-learning schedule, and it was such a blessing — for both her and me. Such a powerful experience was a surprise. A capsule history of…
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News Our Passover is not canceled. But it will be different from all other Passovers.
I just invited more than 30 family members to a Passover Seder. The responses are trickling in slowly but surely. The youngest will be about two months old and the oldest 99. No, we won’t be opening our actual door for anyone other than Elijah. This, dear reader, is our first Virtual Seder. This year’s…
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Fast Forward Two New York City rabbis die, both diagnosed with coronavirus
Two New York City rabbis have died, both diagnosed with coronavirus. Rabbi Romi Cohn of Staten Island, a 92-year-old and Holocaust survivor who had fought as a partisan in World War II, succumbed to the disease, the website The Yeshiva World reported. Cohn was also a mohel who performed thousands of circumcisions free of charge…
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Culture How to choose a haggadah in the time of coronavirus
One must reach to the darkest chapters of Jewish history to think of a Passover as dark as this one. Across the world, families are in lockdown, living in fear or grief, and coping with profound uncertainty about how long this plague will last. In such a moment, the Passover Seder may or may not…
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News Israeli EMS leader intubated in Miami hospital with coronavirus: health minister sidelined us
Eli Beer had been traveling around the globe trying to raise money to help Israeli patients who fall gravely ill with coronavirus. Then he became one of them. Beer, 46, is the founder and president of United Hatzalah, a non-profit, volunteer Emergency Medical Service organization. A week ago, he was hospitalized in Miami with what…
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News Shabbat dinners for young adults were the new thing. Now OneTable is laying off staff.
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Fast Forward Amid campus tensions, CUNY steps up outreach to Brooklyn yeshivas
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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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