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 Could the same man have brought coronavirus to both CPAC and AIPAC conferences?
The tens of thousands of devotees who attended last week’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference and the Conservative Political Action Conference at the end of February have all gone back home, bringing with them new ideas about U.S.-Israel relations and strategies for Republican victories in the 2020 election, respectively. Some have also brought…
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Israel News Israel’s coronavirus quarantine means expats, tourists must cancel travel plans
Dana Naomy Mills is an Israeli academic living in Oxford, Great Britain. She makes a point to fly home every year for Passover. “Oxford has a tiny Jewish community, and so it’s hard to get matzot, and basic things to make you feel at home,” she said. “I’m a matzah brei addict,” she added, referring…
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Yiddish אַלע וואָס קומען אין ישׂראל מוזן זיך שטעלן אונטער אַ קאַראַנטיןEvery new arrival in Israel must be quarantined
דער אָבליגאַטאָרישער 14־טאָגיקער קאַראַנטין וועט זײַן חל סײַ אויף אומקערנדיקע ישׂראלים, סײַ אויף אַלע אויסלענדער.
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Culture As coronavirus fears escalate, Broadway goes affordable
The spread of coronavirus has sent financial markets into turmoil, closed Harvard University and emptied supermarket shelves of surgical masks and hand sanitizer. It’s also forced Broadway to do something unprecedented: Sell reasonably-priced tickets. Scott Rudin, one of Broadway’s biggest producers, has slashed the price of all remaining tickets for his five Broadway shows to…
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Israel News Quarantine Diary Day 7: Israel, a country under 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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Opinion How my Jewish community has come together under quarantine
Last week, New York’s first cases of coronavirus started sweeping the state, with most of them consolidating themselves to my small Jewish community in Westchester county. As of today, Governor Andrew Cuomo has sent in the National Guard. But the truth is, he needn’t have. Our situation is unique. Once we in New Rochelle’s Orthodox…
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Culture What to watch if you’re quarantined with coronavirus
With coronavirus cases on the rise and over 2,000 people in quarantine in New York City alone, it’s looking increasingly likely that many of us will have to spend some quality time at home in the next few weeks. Wondering how not to go crazy while eating canned goods in your closet-sized bedroom? The answer,…
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News Orthodox Jews under quarantine yearn to reunite, gather online in the meantime
In another year, this would be a scene from a Purim spiel, the goofy plays put on for the Jewish holiday where costumes, debauchery and satire reign: Dozens of teenage yeshiva students, racing around a New York City suburb in Ubers. They stop at Jewish houses where people are under quarantine, and speed-read all 10…
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Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
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Opinion I run The Jewish Theological Seminary. Here’s the real story about President Isaac Herzog speaking at our commencement
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Opinion The profound internal contradiction that could spell doom for Hillel
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News Rep. Dan Goldman urges ‘no’ vote on proposed Brooklyn Israel boycott, warning of antisemitism
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Fast Forward Itamar Ben-Gvir draws criticism from Netanyahu for video taunting detained flotilla activists
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Fast Forward What Tuesday’s primaries tell us about Democrats, Republicans and the Israel issue
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Fast Forward AOC and other leading Democrats condemn Texas congressional candidate Maureen Galindo over antisemitic rhetoric