This is the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
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Opinion ‘Here we sit. In limbo.’ A day in the life of a small business owner during a pandemic.
I’m up by 6:00 am, but my husband Daniel has already been up for hours. He gets up between 2:00 and 4:00 am to research financial markets and potential investments. We take that first hour before the kids stir to check in on the day. What has to happen? Who is working in the cidery…
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News Reopen Georgia? Atlanta’s Jewish community isn’t so sure
Georgia’s governor is in a hurry to reopen his state. Atlanta’s Jewish community, not so much. “No one is calling us frantic to reopen,” said Robert Wittenstein, president of Temple Emanu-el of Greater Atlanta. Earlier this week, Georgia’s Republican Brian Kemp announced he wanted Georgia to reopen—to the surprise of business leaders and mayors across…
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Community Remembering Joseph Feingold – and with him, a whole generation
Joseph Feingold was a brave Holocaust survivor, hardworking immigrant, accomplished architect and generous soul, as the world got to know a bit from the short documentary “Joe’s Violin” that was nominated for the Academy Award in 2017. But to me, the grandchild of Holocaust survivors and producer of the film, Joseph — who died last…
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Community Especially now, we cannot forget the Ethiopian Jewry
Immediately after the normally joyous holiday of Passover, Jews enter the period of Sefirah, a traditionally somber time that concludes seven weeks later with the joyous festival of Shavuot. The Talmudic tractate of Yebamot ties this period of sadness to the fact that thousands of disciples of the great sage, Rabbi Akiva, perished in a…
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Fast Forward Not sure where on the world wide web to go for Shabbat? This website is your guide.
For some of us, the hardest part about quarantine is missing out on gabfests with friends at synagogue — IRL, not online. Others may be interested in counting the omer, but have no idea how to do it. Still more might not have had a synagogue community before the coronavirus pandemic, and now really wish…
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News Soup kitchen and Hasidic philanthropist provide free groceries to Boro Park families affected by COVID-19
Masbia Soup Kitchen has partnered with Mordy Getz, the owner of Eichler’s Judaica Bookstore, to offer free groceries to any Boro Park family which has lost a breadwinner to coronavirus. The novel coronavirus has devastated tight-knit Hasidic communities in New York. And for families, grief over a parent’s death is compounded by anxiety about fulfilling…
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Opinion Hell, no, we shouldn’t have camp! It would betray all our values.
What will happen to camp this summer? Ever since the world started shutting down in response to the rise of coronavirus, this has been a nagging question across the Jewish community. Camps have understandably been reluctant to make any decisions one way or another, and not just due to the desperate hope of emerging from…
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Community Never too late to say yes to a new adventure
He said ‘yes.’ When I knocked on Joseph Feingold’s apartment door six years ago, he had no idea who I was, but within an hour he simply said ‘yes,’ and it changed both of our lives — and many others. Joe was 97 when he died last week, of pneumonia and Covid-19. He was 91…
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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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Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
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Culture She was my Hebrew school bully — and I finally learned what happened to her
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Fast Forward Nation’s largest teachers union rejects move to cut ties with ADL
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Culture In this Holocaust story, there are few words, no swastikas, no yellow stars — just movement, passion and empathy
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Opinion What Democrats fighting Trump should learn from Germany’s failure to stop Hitler
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