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 California allowing up to 100 people in synagogues — just in time for Shavuot holiday
Guidelines issued by the state of California on Monday will allow up to 100 people to attend services at synagogues and other houses of worship. Synagogue attendance will be capped at 100 people or 25% capacity, whichever is smaller. All attendees not in an immediate family unit will have to maintain distancing of six feet,…
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Community ‘Jewish day schools must be the most appealing option by leaps and bounds’
If there is anything I have learned working as a teacher in New York City during COVID-19, it is how vital Jewish education is. The school I teach in, the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day School in Manhattan, performed phenomenally throughout this crisis, but we were not the only ones. Following Jewish day schools’…
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Fast Forward A new fund is providing aid to Jews of color struggling due to coronavirus
(JTA) — A new relief fund is providing financial aid to Jews of color who are struggling economically due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Jews of Color Field Building Initiative announced the launch of an emergency relief fund on Tuesday. The San Francisco-based group will be providing aid of between $250 and $2,5000 on a…
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Opinion The government is feeding a Hasidic persecution complex
Imagine you are a Hasidic teenage boy, a yeshiva student. You usually have school all year round, six days a week; your purpose in life is to study Torah, especially before your arranged marriage at the age of 18 or 19 while you are not yet distracted by family and work. From the time you…
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Community ‘What she lacked was the goodness of possibility:’ Parallels with Ruth in a pandemic
“I went away full and have returned empty” (Ruth 1:21) This Shavuot, when the Jewish people open up the book of Ruth, it will be Naomi’s cry that will resonate in our souls. There is a natural catastrophe, resulting in geographic displacement and economic insecurity. The deaths of Naomi’s husband and two sons are devastating,…
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News Here’s how to think about NYC’s new COVID-19 data
New York City’s health department has begun providing data that breaks down the city’s COVID-19 pandemic by a number of different demographic factors, including race and ZIP code. So far, the takeaways are clear— neighborhoods with more black and Hispanic residents, and/or with higher poverty rates, saw higher rates of infection and death. And, broadly…
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The Schmooze Scandal-prone influencer Arielle Charnas is battling over her florist bill on Instagram
Just over a month after tearfully apologizing for her last coronavirus-era transgressions, beleaguered influencer Arielle Charnas is making headlines again — this time for stiffing her florist. Owner of the clothing line Something Navy, Charnas has racked up over a million Instagram followers by sharing daily outfit selfies, lukewarm TikTok dance routines, and snapshots of…
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News Alone in her school lab, a teacher prints face shields
Like schools most everywhere these days, the Milken Community School in west Los Angeles is largely free of people. The coronavirus shut down the private Jewish school’s middle and high school campuses until further notice, leaving classwork to continue online through the end of the academic year this week. There’s at least one exception to…
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Opinion I spoke out against Mamdani. Then he won. Here’s how we walk forward together.
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News Indiana University removed its Jewish studies director. His replacement has ignited a firestorm over Israel.
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Fast Forward Groundbreaking analysis of Hitler’s DNA shows no Jewish ancestry — but finds a genetic disorder
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Culture Is the movie ‘Nuremberg’ about the wrong psychiatrist?
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