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Israel News Quarantine Diary, Day 5: There’s a 10% chance it’s corona. Should we call a doctor?
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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Israel News Quarantine Diary, Day 4: It’s hard to get out of bed because…..why?
Z ack Dinerstein and Lisa Tauber @lisatauber, 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 up…
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Fast Forward As many as 100 shiva attendees exposed to coronavirus in Maryland
One of three residents of Montgomery County, Md. who contracted the coronavirus on a cruise in Egypt attended a Jewish mourning ritual at a retirement community before before getting diagnosed with the disease and exposed between 70 and 100 attendees to it. In the ritual, known as sitting shiva, family members of the deceased receive…
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Fast Forward Officials: AIPAC attendees who tested positive for coronavirus not a threat
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The two people who participated in last week’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual conference who have tested positive for coronavirus did not pose a risk to others at the conference, the District of Columbia Health Department said. “Based on our investigation thus far, in collaboration with the New York State Department…
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Israel News Quarantine Diary: ‘I am seriously going to kill you’ (That’s what she said)
Day 3: ‘I want to be clear I sort of doubt I am contaminated’ (Lisa) Turns out if you constantly post Instagram stories, your friends won’t forget about you. Friday is the first day of the weekend here in Israel, which means our friends had some spare time, too. Soon after we woke up this…
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Life How to do Purim at home with kids, in the shadow of the coronavirus
Our Purim plans are hanging in mid-air right now, thanks to coronavirus. Our school’s Purim carnival was canceled, and while services are still on and school is open — the anxiety is high. Definitely no bobbing for apples this year. With some New York-area Jewish day schools closing in recent days, there’s a lot of…
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News Live coronavirus updates: AIPAC says 2 conference attendees tested positive for coronavirus
We are closely monitoring the coronavirus outbreak within the Jewish community in New York and beyond, and are posting updates as they happen here. If you are being affected by the virus we would like to speak to you, please email reporter Ari Feldman at feldman[at]forward.com. Has the spread of #coronavirus made you change your…
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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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