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 Virtual pastoring, and the texts that give them comfort: 19 rabbis (and 2 cantors) on spiritual leadership through coronavirus
They are our teachers, our counselors, our spiritual leaders, our neighbors. Rabbis and cantors help us navigate the most important parts of our lives, from birth to Bnei Mitzvah, marriage (and divorce) to death and its aftermath. We rely on them, especially, in times of crisis like the coronavirus pandemic. As the pandemic’s revolutionary impact…
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Opinion ‘We rehearse for this all the time’: Holocaust survivors face coronavirus with grit and humor
For Cordula Hahn, a Holocaust survivor in Brooklyn, the first trigger was the lack of toilet paper. “Oh, no, will I have to go back using newspaper?” she asks, half chuckling. “That’s what we did when we were in hiding in the Netherlands, and seeing the panic over toilet paper immediately brought back that memory.”…
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Yiddish דער פֿאָרווערטס בעת אַ מגפֿה - און ווי צו שרײַבן וועגן דעם אויף ייִדישThe Forverts during COVID-19 – or how to say “social distancing” in Yiddish
מיר האָפֿן איבערצוגעבן חסידישע משפּחות די נייטיקע אינפֿאָרמאַציע וועגן דעם קאָראָנאַ-ווירוס, אויף זייער אייגענער שפּראַך — ייִדיש.
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Yiddish אַ שׂימחה אין מיטן פֿון דער מגפֿהFinding joy during the coronavirus
בעת מע האָט געפֿירט דאָס יונגע פּאָרל איבער די גאַסן, האָט דער גאַנצער עולם, פֿון די גאַניקעס, געקאָנט מקיים זײַן די מצווה פון משׂמח זײַן חתן־כּלה.
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Opinion Why American Jews are at greater risk for coronavirus
More than 100 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods Borough Park and Williamsburg in what is New York City’s first cluster of novel coronavirus cases. But while the COVID-19 virus may appear to be a problem most pressing for more religious, geographically clustered groups of Jews, this pandemic is actually an existential…
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Culture Daily distraction: Experience the world from your couch, explore YIVO and dance
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. It’s Friday, the end of our first week of social distancing. Things can look bleak…
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News Brooklyn clinic reports 500 coronavirus cases. But city questions its testing methods.
An urgent-care center that serves Hasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn said Thursday that it has confirmed 528 cases of coronavirus among the 937 people it tested since last Friday, heightening concerns that infections in the highly social Hasidic world are spiking — and that the clinic’s aggressive approach could be helping it spread. With test kits…
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News Quarantined college kids find meetups, memes and flirting at Hillel on Facebook
With classes cancelled around the country, Jewish college students are unable to meet their Jewish friends at Hillel for Shabbat dinner, social justice projects or just to hang out. But in less than a week, a virtual community with nearly 8,000 members has emerged to fill that gap: a Facebook group called Zoom University Hillel….
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