This is the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
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Life Everyday Heroes: She’s bringing cookies where they’re needed most.
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: Robyn Frank, owner of Thumbs Cookies What she’s doing: In March,…
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Community How to reintegrate after social distancing, from someone who did it 23 times
Social distancing is unusual. For most people, not seeing friends, chatting with colleagues, or encountering strangers at restaurants is oddly uncomfortable. For me, social isolation is strangely familiar. I’ve endured it 23 times before. At 13, I was a perfectly healthy kid who came home from summer camp and abruptly fell sick with a rare…
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Archive From the archives, Influenza 1918: Till death do us part
September 1918, normally a time for celebrating the upbeat Sukkot Jewish harvest holiday, instead saw the first influenza obituary published in the Forverts. It made front page news with this clickbait headline about George Abbot of Yonkers, NY: “Sought To Marry Before Dying, And Died Preceding Wedding.” Twenty-six-year-old Abbott died of influenza at St. John’s…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump violated quarantine to go to New Jersey for Passover
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump traveled to New Jersey with her family to spend Passover at a Trump family residence, despite federal guidelines against discretionary travel. Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and their three young children traveled from Washington D.C. to the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, where they celebrated the first night…
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News Amid coronavirus, Brazilian Jews face rising anti-Semitism
A conspiracy theory linking the novel coronavirus outbreak to Jews has been tied to a succession of anti-Semitic incidents over the past few months in Brazil. The cases have prompted a swift and concerted response from Jewish activists there. On March 14, a Facebook page dedicated to the work of Sigmund Freud posted a small…
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News Letter from Mexico City: ‘We barely recognize one another’
At first, things were very calm. Nobody seemed to be worried. The crisis was happening at the other side of the planet, very far away, in China, and starting to hit Italy, but in Mexico City we were safe. There were 7 people sick with coronavirus. Mexicans were special and would not to be harmed….
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Fast Forward Jewish group launches page to report COVID-related hate crimes against Jews, Asian-Americans
The Anti-Semitism Accountability Project and the America China Public Affairs Institute have created a portal to report coronavirus-related hate speech and bias crimes against minority groups. Victims of bias-crimes can report them through an online form on ASAP’s website. The results will be used to “identify trends and raise awareness of this growing crisis among…
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Fast Forward Virus outbreak in black-Jewish Baltimore neighborhood leads to anti-Semitic blame game
An African-American radio host’s public blaming of Jews for Baltimore’s coronavirus outbreak led to an accusation of anti-Semitism, particularly since data shows that the city’s COVID-19 hotspots include neighborhoods popular with both Jews and black residents. “There are a lot of Jewish people moving down here from New York City,” the host, George Mitchell, said…
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