This is the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
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Fast Forward New York Is allowing day camps to open. Some Jewish camps are still staying closed.
(JTA) — When Jewish camp directors explained their reasons for canceling camp this summer, state and local prohibitions were typically at the top of the list. We can’t even think about opening camp, they would say, because the government won’t let us. Now that’s changing. States across the country have told day camps, overnight camps…
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Fast Forward For some small kosher food purveyors, the coronavirus era is boom time
(JTA) — Like many small business owners, Ian Yosef Hertzmark’s small flour operation saw a precipitous drop when the coronavirus pandemic hit the Unites States in March. Almost overnight, Hertzmark’s Migrash Farm, which produces certified kosher flour from grain grown in the Chesapeake Bay region, lost virtually his entire wholesale business after local restaurants and…
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Fast Forward After dramatic rise In COVID-19 infections, Israel halts reopening plans
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is hitting an “emergency brake” on its ongoing reopening of the economy due to a sharp rise in the rate of coronavirus infections in recent days. Some 800 new COVID-19 cases were identified in the past week, as opposed to a total of about 300 infections of the coronavirus confirmed in…
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Community The return of keva
When the pandemic began about 10 weeks ago and the school closed its building, I did what many parents did – I came up with a schedule to help bring structure to my children’s days. It included time for school work, time for exercise, time for creating, time for play, and time for quiet. It…
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Fast Forward Synagogues can reopen on limited scale in most of New York state
(JTA) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that houses of worship can reopen on a limited scale. Cuomo announced on Saturday that as New York’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis continues to move forward, the state can loosen some restrictions put into place to stem the pandemic. As part of the loosening, religious services…
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Community What the Bible Can Teach Us About Quarantine
The word quarantine comes from quarantena, or “forty days,” in the Venetian language. It was first used during the Black Death epidemic in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to designate a period that ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore. As a rabbi and a student of religious history,…
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News In the wake of protests, here’s how you can help
After yet another police killing of an unarmed black man, protesters across the United States are demanding criminal justice reform on behalf of George Floyd and others who have died at the hands of law enforcement. Organizations and activists are mobilizing on several fronts. They’re working to protect the protesters, to reform policing, to change…
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News How New York’s Haredim are responding to George Floyd protests
A crowd of police in riot gear marched down Crown Heights’ Eastern Parkway one day this week to applause and salutes from some of the neighborhood’s Haredi residents. Another day, amid another Black Lives Matter protest, a Jewish man with side curls offered the throng in Williamsburg a double thumbs-up. Over on Williamsburgh’s Bedford and…
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News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
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Fast Forward University leaders among 100+ signatories to Jewish letter decrying Trump’s campus antisemitism wars
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