This is the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
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Life You’re home anyway. Why not make challah this Shabbat?
I know it sounds insane to start baking challah while the world is shutting down. But you’ll thank me later. I have been doing it weekly for more than a decade. You can make it in 25 minutes – spread across five-minute intervals on a work-from-home Friday or in the evenings or mornings over the…
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Culture Daily Distraction: A ‘Plot Against America’ podcast, Netflix Party and Yiddish cooking
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. Hi! First of all, breathe and center yourself. It’s Thursday, and you’ve almost made it…
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Fast Forward America’s biggest yeshiva closes as multiple COVID cases confirmed in Lakewood
Multiple coronavirus diagnoses have been confirmed in Lakewood, N.J., The Lakewood Scoop reported Thursday. Lakewood has one of the highest concentrations of Jews in the United States, with an estimated 59% of the population Jewish, according to a 2011 study. While many of Lakewood’s synagogues had shut down as the coronavirus pandemic spread throughout the…
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Opinion Coronavirus’s lesson about the deep connection between the physical and spiritual
COVID-19 is the very worst kind of news. On a warpath from Wuhan, it has inflicted enormous human suffering, savaged the global economy, and ripped apart the very fabric of daily life. COVID combines the tools of the assassin’s trade — stealth, silence, ease of movement — with the worst of the terrorist’s capacity to…
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Opinion How not to talk about coronavirus in the Orthodox community
Tuesday was the COVID-19 tipping point for New York’s Hasidic communities. Rumors began circulating that morning that in Boro Park, at one clinic alone, there were hundreds of new positive test results, marking an extreme jump in cases of the virus. While it later turned out that rumor was overblown, it was true that well…
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Fast Forward Patient at center of New Rochelle coronavirus outbreak wakes from coma
(JTA) — The attorney at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in New Rochelle, New York, has emerged from his coma. Lawrence Garbuz “is awake and alert and seems to be on the road to full recovery,” his wife, Adina, said in a post on Facebook. She has not seen him in person, but communicated…
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Yiddish אַלע ייִוואָ־קורסן אויף דער אינטערנעץ זענען איצט בחינםAll YIVO online classes are now free of charge
אַחוץ קלאַסן מיט באַרימטע פּראָפֿעסאָרן, גיט די וועבזײַט צוטריט צו הונדערטער ביכער און זעלטענע רעקאָרדירונגען.
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Opinion The ultra Orthodox leadership’s shameful abdication of its responsibility
“Stay at home,” we were told yesterday. Other than for instances of critical need, Israelis are not to leave the house. Many of us have already been here, as schools were cancelled last week after three days of Purim vacation. For my family, that came on the heels of already having been quarantined in home…
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