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 Jewish Twitter tried to pray for Trump, but Stephen Miller’s diagnosis generates only jokes
While a debate broke out among liberal Jews on Twitter, as to whether they should pray for the president of the United States after his positive COVID-19 diagnosis, nobody in those circles seems to have any such qualms about his senior aide, Stephen Miller. Widely known as the architect of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies,…
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News Orthodox stage mask-burning protest in Brooklyn, furious at new COVID-19 rules
Hundreds of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn thronged the streets of Borough Park last night to protest New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new COVID-19 restrictions, which directly target Orthodox neighborhoods with high infection rates and would dramatically disrupt Orthodox life during the last week of the High Holidays. At the gathering, a video shared on social…
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Fast Forward Stephen Miller tests positive for COVID-19, the disease that killed his grandmother
Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Donald Trump, has tested positive for coronavirus. The New York Times reported that Miller tested positive Tuesday after a series of negative tests. Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, contracted the virus this spring. She is Vice President Mike Pence’s communications director. Miller’s grandmother, Ruth Glosser, died from COVID-19 in…
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Culture In cancelling ‘GLOW,’ Netflix deals a body blow to representation
Without meaning to, “GLOW,” the Netflix dramedy set in the hairspray-hazed world of women’s pro-wrestling, had one of the most gutting finales in TV history. Warning: spoilers follow. At the end of the show’s third season, Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie) runs to catch her flight home for Christmas after a months-long residence in Las Vegas….
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News Did a maskless, post-hospital Trump violate Jewish medical ethics?
Hero or heel? On the one hand, there was President Trump, COVID-19-stricken, but waving to his adoring fans from inside a black limousine on Sunday, a photo-op joyride as a break in his three-day stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Returning to the White House a day later, he proclaimed in a Tweet…
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Community As a new convert, I thought it was okay to use the word ‘schwartze’ when talking about Black people
The moment is seared in my memory: It’s 1990, and I’m carpooling to the University of Connecticut Storrs campus with my new best friend Adrienne, whose mother is Jewish and from Oslo, Norway, where I grew up. We are sitting at a light on Albany Avenue in Hartford, Conn., and I use the word schvartzes…
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News With Cuomo on warpath, Orthodox Jews worry that COVID-19 shutdown will backfire
New York City’s Orthodox community is expressing outrage at school and business closures ordered Monday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio in response to spiking rates of positive coronavirus tests. Orthodox leaders say they are being unfairly targeted by de Blasio’s and Cuomo’s bold approaches — and confrontational rhetoric — in the…
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News In San Francisco, Jews stand with mayor against opening houses of worship too soon
Religious groups that are pushing San Francisco to open up houses of worship to more congregants are doing so without the support of one faith group: Jews. After the United States Department of Justice sent a stern letter to San Francisco Mayor London Breed saying that her ban on indoor worship services, “raises serious concerns…
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