Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
It has been more than 130 days since schools across the country have closed. The situation escalated so quickly that no parent could have prepared. I remember standing in my daughter’s preschool classroom with her, holding her pink nap mat with gold stars, shell shocked. Moms around the country were standing with me, stunned by…
President Trump is scheduled to attend a fundraiser in New Jersey next week hosted by the family of Stanley Chera, a friend of his who died earlier this year from COVID-19, Hamodia reported. Chera, a real estate developer and a prominent leader of the Syrian Jewish community of New York and New Jersey, died in…
The Chinese concentration camps for Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities should strike fear into Jew's hearts
From its start in 1906, A Bintel Brief was a pillar of the Forward, helping generations of Jewish immigrants learn how to be American. Now our columnists are helping people navigate the complexities of being Jewish in 2020. Send questions to bintel@forward.com. In sickness and in health, till Bubbe do us part Dear Bintel, My…
From its start in 1906, A Bintel Brief was a pillar of the Forward, helping generations of Jewish immigrants learn how to be American. Now our columnists are helping people navigate the complexities of being Jewish in 2020. Send questions to bintel@forward.com. Of zebras and nasal swabs Dear Bintel, My husband is a medical professional…
White House senior advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner, who led a task force to fight COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, abandoned efforts to create a nationwide testing scheme after it was decided that it would be politically advantageous to let Democratic-controlled states suffer outbreaks, Vanity Fair reported Thursday. “The political folks believed that because…
The YM and YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood has distributed more than $230,000 in emergency cash assistance since the start of the pandemic. At its peak, the Y’s meal delivery program prepared and dropped off 300 hot meals each day. It opened a childcare center for first responders. It performed wellness checks for the…
(JTA) — The face masks aren’t subtle: One is emblazoned with the famous photo of a Jewish mother and child, their hands raised, at Nazi gunpoint. Another shows an unmistakable image of a concentration camp crematorium. The product description below the mother-and-child mask reads: “Another bold image that gets the point across without being overly…
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