This is the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
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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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Israel News Quarantine Diary Day 11: Tips for staying healthy and sane while in quarantine
Z ack Dinerstein and Lisa Tauber, both 35, moved from Park Slope, Brooklyn, to Tel Aviv a year ago for her job at Fiverr, an online marketplace for freelance services (he is a web developer and former podcast producer). Newlyweds, they recently went for a romantic getaway to Paris — only to find on their…
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Fast Forward A chartered airlift is bringing US teens home from Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The entire student body of URJ Heller High in Israel, a high school affiliated with the Reform movement, will return to the United States on a chartered flight, along with dozens of students from other Israeli programs for American teens. Rabbi Loren Sykes, URJ Heller High principal, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency…
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Yiddish עטלעכע פֿון אונדזערע באַליבטסטע קאָראָנאַווירוס־וויצןSome of our favorite Jewish coronavirus memes
אָט זענען עטלעכע וויצן פֿון דער אינטערנעץ וואָס קענען אײַך העלפֿן לאַכן פֿון די צרות, צי איר קאַרענטירט זיך אַליין, צי נישט.
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