This is the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
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Community Judaism is familiar with Great Pauses — but this one is different
There is nothing good about the coronavirus Great Pause. Full stop. But there may be an opportunity to do some good while we are trapped within it. On top of the health and economic toll it is taking, I am seeing firsthand the deep spiritual price being exacted from my children. For one daughter, this…
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Community A wave from the window
Last week, Sherri, the “escapades-to-go” coordinator from my parents’ assisted-living facility, emailed to ask if our family would like to be part of a “get out of the car and wave to the window” event. To me, waving to my parents through a window did not sound like much of an escapade, but given that…
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Fast Forward De Blasio: Jewish funeral broken up because it was ‘thousands of people’
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York on Wednesday defended his actions the night before in personally venturing to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to disperse a crowd at a funeral for a Hasidic rabbi and then sending a Tweet about it that outraged many in the Orthodox and broader Jewish community because it seemed to blame all…
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News A Jewish charity donates COVID supplies to Native Americans
In late April, 2,000 surgical masks and 1,000 medical-grade plastic face shields arrived on the reservation of the Dine/Navajo Nation — enough to protect all medical personnel and first responders on the reservation. The unlikely sender? A half-Navajo, half-Jewish-led nonprofit. Indigenous Bridges forges relationships between diaspora Jewish communities and indigenous communities in North America, the…
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Fast Forward As Yom Ha’atzmaut dawns, video honoring Arab-Israeli health workers tops 2 million views.
The most viral video in Israel today is one honoring the Arab-Israeli health care workers who are on the front lines fighting the spread of COVID-19 in the country. The video has topped 2 million views in Israel alone, meaning it has been viewed by a quarter of all Israelis, which is more than any…
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News NYC Jewish pols press hospitals to let volunteers visit lonely virus patients
The New York State Assembly is calling on city and state health departments and city hospitals to begin a program that would allow volunteers with coronavirus antibodies to visit COVID patients, according to a joint letter signed by assembly members and city council members Kalman Yeger and Chaim Deutsch. “We propose that your hospitals create…
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Opinion I own a kosher restaurant. The community is rallying around us.
“How are you guys doing?” It’s a question I get asked a lot lately. It’s not an unusual question during a pandemic. But I’m a small business owner. My wife and I own and operate Holy Chow, Washington, D.C.’s only certified glatt kosher Chinese restaurant. In normal times, we are one of the handful of…
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Fast Forward Will there be Jewish camp this summer? Three will decide this week, likely delay.
(JTA) — Thousands of parents and children have been asking the question for months, with increasing anxiety: Will the coronavirus cancel summer camp? Three Jewish overnight camps, from the Conservative Ramah movement, are set to announce their decisions this week. Ramah in Wisconsin, Colorado’s Ramah in the Rockies and Ramah Darom in Georgia are scheduled…
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Film & TV The new ‘Superman’ is being called anti-Israel, but does that make it pro-Palestine?
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Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
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Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
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Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
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Fast Forward Students at Netanyahu’s Pennsylvania high school want him ejected from the alumni hall of fame
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Culture On the border between hipster and Hasidic, a Brooklyn barbershop specializes in Orthodox haircuts
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Opinion American Jews were played — now what?
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Fast Forward Its protests yielding limited results, Jewish Voice for Peace retools to focus on swaying elections
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