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 In Los Angeles, Jay Sanderson mourns his brother, and mobilizes Federation against COVID-19
For Jay Sanderson, it got personal. Last month, the COVID-19 virus claimed his mentally disabled twin brother, Jeffrey, who was living in a group home outside Boston. When it was clear Jeffrey wouldn’t survive the infection, doctors told Jay that his brother had about 24 hours to live. He lasted another four days and died…
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News Ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods not among hardest-hit by coronavirus: city data
New York City’s Ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods are not among those hardest hit by coronavirus despite the widespread perception that they have higher rates of infection, according to data released Monday by the city’s Department of Health. The data track cases and deaths across New York City’s roughly 70 ZIP codes from Feb. 29 to May 19….
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Fast Forward Hundreds of Jewish layoffs with more to come
(JTA) – The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is recording layoffs and furloughs at Jewish organizations as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This story is updated regularly and serves as a running log of layoffs and furloughs imposed at Jewish nonprofits. If you have information about layoffs or furloughs imposed at a Jewish nonprofit organization, please…
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News Are some Jewish nonprofits using Payroll Protection loans to lay people off?
For Jewish nonprofit employees, finding out that their organization has obtained a loan from the Small Business Administration’s Payroll Protection Program is a piece of long-sought good news. Even the name of the program signals that it’s a harbinger of job security in a turbulent time. And while it’s technically a loan, the government will…
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News Trump taking controversial drug after Hasidic doctor recommended it
President Donald Trump said Monday that he is taking hydroxychloroquine, the controversial antimalarial drug whose use to combat COVID-19 has been touted heavily by a Hasidic doctor in upstate New York. The doctor, Vladimir Zelenko, who has expressed support for Trump on social media, sent a letter to the White House in March about his…
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News Reform Judaism is a wounded giant. A historian explains why it got so big.
Amid a seeming avalanche of Jewish organizational cutbacks, closings and furloughs, the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) announced last Wednesday, that it would be cutting its staff by 20% due to coronavirus-related stresses. As with so many basic institutions of American life, the economic disruption caused by the pandemic is highlighting existential questions about the…
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News Prayer in the parking lot: Orthodox Atlanta shuls become first synagogues to reopen
Orthodox rabbis in Atlanta have agreed on a framework for how synagogues can safely reopen – and at least one began doing so on Monday. Synagogues across the country shut their doors in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. But three weeks after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp proclaimed that houses of worship could reopen, 15…
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Fast Forward More than 60 teens studying in Brooklyn yeshiva dispersed by New York police
Police acting on a tip found dozens of high school-aged boys studying in a Brooklyn yeshiva on Monday, in violation of state rules that public and private schools must remain closed through the end of the academic year. Earlier today the NYPD shut down a Yeshiva conducting classes with as many as 70 children. I…
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