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 Should masks at demonstrations be banned? The issue is bigger than you think
It’s not just about pro-Palestinian protests. Mask bans raise issues related to public health, religion, privacy, free speech and more
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Theater A hauntingly bizarre musical upends Stephen Sondheim’s signature maxim — here, everyone is alone
In Dave Malloy's COVID-era 'Three Houses,' a brilliant structure saves three little pigs but leaves audience out in the woods
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News ‘No divestment, no commencement’: Students fear protests will upend their college graduations
'I’m sad for her that this is how her college career is ending,' one mother said of her graduating senior
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Books How Barbra Streisand’s interior design manifesto inspired an unlikely hit play
Over a decade before publishing her first memoir, the movie star made her authorial debut with a coffee table tome detailing her sometimes questionable, always ostentatious taste in home decor
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Fast Forward Former Cuomo aide alleges that Kushner was behind Boro Park protests during COVID-19 outbreak
Melissa DeRosa, fomer Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s right hand, recounts the Orthodox protests against the governor following the blowup of a ‘nonaggression pact’ with Trump
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Fast Forward Drew Weissman, Jewish immunologist, wins Nobel Prize for his work on Covid vaccines
Weissman shared the prize with Katalin Kariko, his Hungarian-born research partner at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Fast Forward With COVID’s resurgence ahead of the High Holidays, some synagogues are bringing pandemic guidelines back. But for most, it’s ‘business as usual.’
Some synagogues are offering mask-only sections, while one congregation in New York is requiring them
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Fast Forward RFK Jr. on the people to blame for COVID: ‘We know who they were and they weren’t Jewish’
Kennedy also denounced antisemitism while defending his record on the Jews in an event organized by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
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Opinion New York’s Israel Day parade was a shanda — but not because of Mamdani
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Opinion How can I live freely as a Jew in a world where strangers rip my mezuzah off my doorframe?
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News Floyd Mayweather showered cash on Jewish causes — and now he’s suing their ‘Robin Hood’ alleging $175 million got diverted
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Opinion Israeli and diaspora Jews live in different realities. The Israel Day parade proved it
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Looking Forward My irrational, possibly problematic obsession with an $85 yarmulke
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News How Iran is outsourcing terror plots against Jews
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Theater They helped elect Los Angeles’ first Black mayor; but to him, they were just Bob and Shirley
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Books In ‘Something We Said,’ Richard Pryor’s daughter finds words to discuss the unspeakable