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 Missed the Seder because you caught Covid? You weren’t alone.
I strolled into my parents’ home Friday afternoon about six hours before Seder, only to find them seated in the living room looking rather concerned. “Molly has Covid,” my mom said. Oh. My sister had gotten in from New York the night before. My parents had picked her up. Then she came down with a…
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Opinion I lost my dad to COVID. Opening up to a stranger helped me heal — and appreciate my Jewish community even more.
To Denise, I was an open book. For almost a year, through the endless blur that followed the first COVID shutdown, I shared with her the intimate details of my life. No, she wasn’t my psychologist, rabbi or spouse. She’s a sociologist running an oral history project. In April 2020, my dad died from COVID….
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News Entering a third pandemic year, Jews see reasons to hope — and stay cautious
Julia Métraux, now 24, first started having severe fatigue and chronic pain about six years ago — symptoms that led to her eventual diagnosis with vasculitis, which involves inflammation of the blood vessels, in January 2018. She was hospitalized for a week and then bedridden for six months. Her medical needs made it necessary for…
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News A maskless Los Angeles rabbi draws ire of parents angry over COVID-19 rules
When Rabbi David Wolpe, the leader of Sinai Temple, accepted a free ticket to the Super Bowl he never imagined it would cause weeks of turmoil at his Los Angeles congregation. But Wolpe was forced to apologize after he posed maskless for a photo at the event — in contravention of Los Angeles County regulations…
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Culture Soup Nazis? Marjorie Taylor Greene calls out Pelosi’s ‘gazpacho police’ in a gaffe best served cold
It’s becoming clearer by the day that Marjorie Taylor Greene learned nothing from her obligatory visit to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in D.C., made after she likened the Holocaust to mask mandates – but she may have picked up a soup recipe there. In an interview Tuesday night, Greene was heard comparing Nazis and Nancy…
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Fast Forward A complete list of every time RFK Jr. has compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust
The presidential candidate has a troubling history of comparing vaccine and mask mandates to the Shoah
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Culture Enough with the insincere apologies for antisemitism — and enough with the Holocaust comparisons that inspire them
Yet another set of public figures have compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust, an ever-growing club that never fails to draw ire and condemnations from prominent rabbis, Holocaust museums and just about every Jew on Twitter. Inevitably, the apologies came shortly thereafter. “It is never okay to compare anything to the evil of Nazi Germany….
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Culture From Basra to the Chelsea Hotel — My father’s journey
Editor’s Note: The artist George Chemeche died Jan. 11, 2022 at age 89. To mark this solemn occasion, we are republishing this remembrance of the artist’s life and work by his daughter, Amanda Chemeche. My father, George Chemeche, is 87 years old. I live with him here in the Chelsea Hotel. Since the onset of…
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