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 To stay or go? For Millennials, a dilemma of being alone vs. risking infecting parents
I was in a new apartment, on a new block. I started noticing all the weird sounds of my building in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights – the clacking of the radiator, the groaning and banging of heating pipes. Out my window, I could see into other peoples’ lives, people like me who were…
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Opinion I’m just so angry
I’m angry and I can’t help but be angry about what this country faces. I’m not angry at the coronavirus that threatens to cause so much havoc it might unleash a second Great Depression. It’s just a virus, after all, that likely lurked in a bat somewhere in China until it was transferred into another…
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Fast Forward At least 65 yeshiva students returning to Israel from Brooklyn have coronavirus
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than half of a group of 114 students who returned to Israel from a yeshiva near the Chabad world headquarters in New York have tested positive for coronavirus. The Hasidic students returned after the headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn was closed for the first…
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News Does Cuomo’s ban on gatherings exempt houses of worship?
On Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he would ban all “non-essential” gatherings in an executive order, the latest step in the state’s increasingly stringent and sweeping rules to enforce social distancing and limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. “This is not life as usual and accept it and realize it and…
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Fast Forward ‘Painful and deep’: Jewish nonprofits face dire economic prospects during and after coronavirus
NEW YORK (JTA) — Some 38,000 people work at Jewish community centers across North America, staffing preschools, camps, gyms, classes, activities for seniors and more. Because of the coronavirus crisis, a lot of them are going to lose their jobs. “The cuts are going to be painful and deep,” said Doron Krakow, CEO of the…
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Opinion Israel must act now to prevent a coronavirus disaster in Gaza
Gazans used to joke that Israel’s blockade, which keeps out the world, will keep out the coronavirus — wishful thinking, it turned out; the coronavirus has finally come to Gaza. The results may be catastrophic, and Israel has a unique role in assisting current and future patients in Gaza. After 13 years of blockade imposed…
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Opinion Coronavirus is no excuse to demonize Haredim
In the endless stream of stories about the COVID-19 pandemic, an unsettling sub-plot has been the actions, or lack thereof, of various Haredi groups in the New York metropolitan area. Reports of a swarm of positive test results in Borough Park and Williamsburg have raised fears of a cluster outbreak, triggered by a small number…
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Israel News That Israeli mom whose rant-video about distance-learning went viral? She’s a special-ed teacher.
The little video doesn’t feature a celebrity, just an anonymous Israeli woman in sunglasses. It lasts less than 90 seconds, and has no action — just her, straight to camera, recorded in her car of all places, ranting about the new reality of parenting in a pandemic. You’ve probably seen it: it has racked up…
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