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 At least 100 test positive for coronavirus in Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood
At least 100 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Brooklyn’s Hasidic Borough Park neighborhood, amid intense debates within and around such communities over continued gatherings for prayer, study and celebrations like weddings. The news of the outbreak was first reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which cited an official at Asisa, an urgent-care clinic…
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News In Jewish Florida, the healthy and the young make it to polls on primary day
It’s primary day in Florida — a day that’s normally full of energy given the Sunshine State’s plum position as one of the most delegate-rich in the union. Instead, the coronavirus was like a mushroom cloud hanging over polling stations, leading many voters and some poll workers to stay home. At my own polling station,…
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Yiddish איבער 100 באַשטעטיקטע פֿאַלן פֿון קאָראָנאַווירוס בײַם חרדישן עולם אין ברוקליןOver 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among Haredi Jews in Brooklyn
„הצלה‟ זאָגט אַז מע זאָל נישט גיין אין מיקווה און משפּחות זאָלן נישט גיין באַזוכן עלטערע מענטשן.
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News Doleful teens leave Israel for computer screens as programs send students home
On Sunday, the participants of Nativ had a choice: stay in Israel, or go home. Yossi Garr, the director for 15 years of this beloved gap-year program in Israel, told the 53 participants and their parents that despite growing restrictions on public life and movement in and out of Israel, Nativ could continue. They could…
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Opinion Will we ever get to have sex again?
If you’re reading this, I hope you’re doing well. The world is a different place from the one we found ourselves in a week ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic reached its tipping point in America, dramatically altering life as we know it for the foreseeable future. We’ve become more of our primal selves, fighting for…
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Culture I’m a rabbi and a lifelong reader. These are the books I’m turning to for comfort.
As we as a society take steps to stem the novel coronavirus outbreak, we have plenty of enforced time at home. But although your body may be stuck inside, your mind can still roam the universe. This is a time to read: long books you’ve never gotten to, or new kinds of books you never…
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Fast Forward What U.S. Jews can learn from Italy’s Jewish response to coronavirus
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Italian people’s first reaction to the coronavirus was to have a good laugh. Not because they didn’t believe the virus was a real issue, but because that’s just how we like to process big changes in my home country. By Feb. 23, there were 152 confirmed cases in Italy. Yet many…
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News Influenza 1918, a look back: Homes Must Now Be Heated, Says Board of Health
FYI: Reading the Forverts of early winter 1918, with the influenza epidemic ramping up and an election forthcoming, the paper sounds eerily like today’s news. The Forverts reported nearly 3,000 cases of influenza in the city and a commissioner who thought it wasn’t serious (10/10/18). At the tail end of the article, they placed an…
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News DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
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