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Culture We used to conduct weddings in cemeteries to fight epidemics — really
As the world confronts the novel coronavirus pandemic, many Jewish leaders are urging their communities to make changes in their lives to help cut the crisis short: Don’t kiss mezuzot, convene with your minyan online. Keep events like weddings small, if at all possible. But in past moments of public health crisis, our community wasn’t…
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Life “Meet a Jew” pop-up combats two epidemics: coronavirus and anti-Semitism
At lunchtime on a recent Thursday before the city came to a standstill due to coronavirus fears, 42nd Street was awash with New Yorkers in single-minded pursuit of kale salads and Mediterranean grain bowls. Even at the best of times, it’s difficult to interrupt the powerful flow of this daily migration. In recent weeks, as…
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Culture Daily distraction: How to stay engaged — and entertained — through a time of isolation
Listen: If Arnold Schwarzenegger can absolutely revel in being quarantined with his miniature horse and miniature donkey (yes, really!), you can find some comfort and joy in isolation, too. Starting today, we’ll be sharing recommendations each day on how to stay engaged with the world in these times of quarantine and isolation. They’ll range from…
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Opinion What it’s like to have OCD during a pandemic
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always felt like my body was wrong. It isn’t a feeling that I should be inhabiting a body of a different gender or size or shape — not exactly. It’s more of a feeling that my skin is a cage trapping me inside of it, and I…
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Yiddish ישׂראלדיקער געזונט־מיניסטעריום שאַפֿט ייִדישע רעקאָרדירונג אײַנצוצאַמען קאָראָנאַווירוסIsraeli health ministry releases Yiddish audio recording to stop spread of COVID-19
דאָס איז מסתּמא צום ערשטן מאָל וואָס דער מיניסטעריום פּובליקירט אַ מעלדונג אויף ייִדיש, אַ שפּראַך וואָס פֿיגורירט בכלל נישט אויף זײַן וועבזײַט.
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News This Orthodox Brooklyn doctor saw the truth about coronavirus weeks ago
On Wednesday evening last week, Dr. Stuart Ditchek convened an unprecedented meeting. At a synagogue in Midwood, Brooklyn, he gathered 170 rabbis, yeshiva principals and administrators (some streaming in via Zoom) to ask them to make a difficult, but necessary, decision: close their doors immediately to help stop the spread of coronavirus. Ditchek, a pediatrician…
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Israel News I’m an American in Israel, and I feel safer here during this pandemic.
When our heating system broke last week, my husband and I were more than eager to get the climate control fixed before we found ourselves, like thousands of Israelis, in quarantine to prevent the spread of coronavirus. “Everyone here is only out for themselves,” said the repairman as he wrote up our bill. He was…
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Opinion Dating during a pandemic: How to be single in the age of corona
I was supposed to have a first date Thursday night. I’m 32 and single and my last real relationship was a few years ago. I’ve been on an off dating apps during that time, but anyone who is single in NYC and over 30 knows that process is its own kind of absurd hell. A…
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