This is the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
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Culture We need to talk about RFK Jr.’s antisemitic conspiracy mongering
The presidential candidate's remarks on COVID-19 offered a blend of old-world and new-school prejudice
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Politics RFK Jr. said COVID-19 was targeted to spare ‘Ashkenazi Jews.’ One rabbi came to his defense.
Jewish groups condemned the remarks. But Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, in a YouTube video with Kennedy posted Saturday night, said the presidential candidate is misunderstood
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Politics RFK Jr. gains traction amid revelations he compared COVID-19 vaccine mandates to Nazi experiments
In a video clip from 2020, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns against COVID-19 rules, adding that the 'Nazis did that in the camps in World War Two – they tested vaccines on gypsies and Jews'
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Fast Forward Haredi newspaper runs ad saying COVID vaccine was a ‘mistake,’ offers ‘detox’ protocols
Document refers people to 'doctors' who are not MDs
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Fast Forward Israeli health ministry calls out Elon Musk out for sharing ‘fake news’ on COVID-19
This is the third time this month that an Israeli government ministry has commented on something Musk has said
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Fast Forward German court acquits COVID denier who compared Israel to Nazi Germany
'The court decision is a sad example of how antisemitism is played down in the judiciary and not combated consistently enough,' said Felix Klein, the federal government’s antisemitism commissioner
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Culture This family survived the Holocaust. Could a weekly Shabbat Zoom call help them survive the pandemic?
Three years after the COVID-19 lockdown, more than 50 people in this sprawling family still log on each Friday night to share their love and support
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Culture What happens when medical protocols collide with Jewish values?
A rabbi looks at brain death, COVID quandaries and more in a new book about bioethics
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News Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes admits ‘at least 6 million’ Jews were killed in Nazi Germany
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