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Fast Forward Hotel that asked Yeshiva University’s basketball team to leave over coronavirus has Jewish owners
A Baltimore-area hotel that asked the basketball team of Yeshiva University, which has one confirmed student infected with coronavirus, to spend the night before their first playoff game at another hotel has Jewish owners, according to a statement from hotel management. The DoubleTree in Pikesville, a heavily Orthodox suburb of Baltimore, called the Yeshiva team…
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Israel News Quarantine Diary: ‘11 days with just each other’
Editor’s note: Zack Dinerstein and Lisa Tauber are Americans living in Tel Aviv. A few days after they got back from a quick getaway in Paris, Israel added France to the list of countries from which travelers must go into isolation. Now Zack and Lisa are among some 80,000 people confined to their homes in…
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Yiddish פינף עצות ווי זיך צו באשיצן פון קאראנא-ווירוס (אין חסידישן ייִדיש)Five ways to protect yourself against coronavirus
דער בעסטער מיטל איז נישט צו טראגן מאסקעס, נאר צו וויסן ווען און ווי אזוי זיך צו וואשן די הענט.
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News Five new New York coronavirus cases are from Jewish New Rochelle family
New York’s five new cases of coronavirus come from a Jewish family in Westchester County whose three children attend a Jewish day school, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters Wednesday. The father of the family is friends with New York’s second confirmed case of coronavirus, a 50-year-old lawyer from New Rochelle. The lawyer is…
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News No kissing Torahs or tearing challah: How synagogues are dealing with coronavirus fears
As the coronavirus has spread across the global Jewish community — first in Italy, and then in Israel and the United States — religious leaders have adjusted ritual practices in order to prevent further contagion. Many synagogues and other Jewish institutions have sent out emails to members urging them to follow the health recommendations of…
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News Jewish man’s coronavirus diagnosis spurs quarantine; shutdown of school, synagogue
Coronavirus has arrived — not only in New York, but in the city’s Jewish schools. Three day schools in the New York area announced Tuesday they would be closed for at least a day after a Jewish Westchester man was hospitalized with what public officials described as a “serious” coronavirus infection. The man, who authorities…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University reports student is son of man infected with coronavirus
A Yeshiva University student is the son of a man infected with coronavirus, the school reported Tuesday afternoon. The student, who has not been on campus since February 27, is in self-quarantine and is showing symptoms, which are being monitored. The student is the son of a Westchester man who was hospitalized in “serious condition”…
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