This is the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
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Fast Forward Miami-area rabbi tests positive for coronavirus
The rabbi of one of the biggest Orthodox synagogues in the Miami area has tested positive for coronavirus, the Miami Herald reported Sunday. Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar of the Shul of Bal Harbour told Bal Harbour Mayor Gabriel Groisman that he had “mild symptoms” and was self-isolating, Groisman said in a statement. As a public…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu trial postponed after government closes courts over virus
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial in three corruption cases has been postponed by over two months, a district court announced on Sunday. The trial was set to begin on Tuesday. It has now been pushed back to May 24. In the very early hours of Sunday, Israeli Justice Minister Amir Ohana announced that emergency…
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News Blessed with enough food, family and Facetime to handle the crisis
When I got to the freezer aisle of my the Costco in Culver City, Calif., on Friday afternoon, there were nine kosher chickens left. I swung open the glass doors and started piling them in my shopping cart. “May I?” I turned. It was a young woman — I think. Black gloves covered her hands,…
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News We want to hear from you: Clergy in the time of coronavirus
In the past few days and weeks, we have all experienced shocking changes in our day-to-day lives. As our spiritual leaders, you have been on the front lines. You’ve made difficult decisions about canceling Bnei Mitzvahs and restricting attendance at life-cycle events, you’ve adapted prayer services and study sessions to take place online, you’ve helped…
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Opinion Editorial | We’re going to have to show up without showing up
I paid a shiva call Friday morning. It was a somewhat absurd thing to do, in the hours before President Trump officially declared a national emergency, in this new era of social distancing: trek across state lines from my home in Montclair, N.J., to the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It was also the most…
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Life No challah? Garlic bread. Shabbat dinner must go on.
I logged on to Twitter Friday morning and searched “Tribeca Whole Foods” as a kind of Shabbat-host reconnaissance mission. The results looked like a compilation of Depression-era newsreels and post-apocalyptic music videos, photos of long lines at the door and shelf after empty shelf. So I texted my guests-to-be, high-school friends that come over many…
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News Lego, prayer, candy. How our 9-year-old scheduled Shabbat under quarantine in Teaneck.
Shabbat was not canceled in Teaneck, N.J. this past weekend — but it was radically altered. When I first found out that the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County had shuttered area synagogues in an unprecedented move to help “flatten the curve” of the coronavirus pandemic, I was pleased with their leadership. The rabbis’ ban on…
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News A Jewish Netflix for teens stuck at home, and more coronavirus content offerings
The Jewish world is going online as schools, synagogues and Jewish community centers close down across the country in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. To keep Jewish learning and life alive for the next several months, clergy and educators are using what already exists on the internet or coming up with new…
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News DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
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