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 Williamsburg Satmar yeshivas operating secret schools in apartments and synagogues
Orthodox yeshivas for boys in Williamsburg are running underground schools in closed synagogues and apartment buildings despite social distancing requirements imposed by the city and state to try to slow the spread of coronavirus, a parent whose child attended one of the secret schools told the Forward. UPDATE: NYC breaks up one secret yeshiva operating…
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Life Everyday Heroes: When no one knows what to say, she’s finding the right words
The Forward asked readers to tell us about the “everyday heroes” in their lives, people extraordinary things in this extraordinary time. If you know someone acting heroically right now, let us know — we’ll be adding to the collection in the coming days. Name: Rabbi Kara Tav, Manager of Spiritual Care Services, NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn…
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Opinion Let there be camp — please!
Let there be camp. That is what I pray to I’m-not-sure-who each night of this pandemic. With every announcement like Thursday’s that school in New Jersey will stay closed at least until May 15, with every email message like the one I got last week saying “Eben’s Bar Mitzvah has been moved to Zoom,” with…
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Community Who gets a ventilator is the new Sophie’s Choice
Prior to the pandemic, I didn’t think of myself as “elderly.” But COVID-19 insists I am, compensating me with early morning, old-people grocery shopping. I’ve come to terms with that but my husband and I, both in our 70s, had been enjoying life before all this tragedy, so I’ve been stewing over being seen as…
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News A wardrobe artist makes masks for quarantined Holocaust survivors
The gift she hoisted with a string onto the balcony of her two-bedroom condo was the closest to human contact Ursula Israelski had come in a month. It was a face mask sewn by Sandy Scheller, former wardrobe tech for Cirque du Soleil’s “Zumanity” in Las Vegas, and it came with the bonus of a…
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News During quarantine, a Sacramento deli switches pastrami for homeless meals
Since July 1 of last year, Jami Goldstene, a former public relations executive, had spent seven days a week running Solomon’s Delicatessen in Sacramento a long-awaited Jewish deli she co-owns that had finally opened after years of delays. Then came Covid-19. On March 15, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that restaurants had to shift to…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn hasidic neighborhoods see spike in at-home deaths
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhoods that have been hard hit in the coronavirus pandemic have seen a sharp rise in people dying at home, according to a new data analysis. At-home deaths in Borough Park and Williamsburg in March and early April were more than 10 times higher than during the same…
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Community Finding inner freedom in quarantine
As Pesach, the time of our freedom, approached, I felt like our liberty was fading away. It feels like forever ago, but it’s been less than a month since most of us were free to go where we pleased and participate in gatherings of any size and kind. Since then, many of our liberties have…
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Fast Forward Rep. Jared Moskowitz becomes latest Jewish lawmaker to reveal antisemitic threats
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Fast Forward Jewish groups denounce fatal shooting at San Diego mosque, say it proves need for security funding