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News Orthodox EMS’ ventilator transfer solves hospital’s conflict with Jewish patients — for now
Brooklyn’s biggest hospital has made concessions to the Orthodox community in its neighborhood by allowing for broader and longer use of ventilators amid the coronavirus crisis, in contrast with other New York City hospitals who might increasingly need to start deciding who gets a ventilator and who doesn’t due to the combination of more patients…
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Life It Was Never About the Building
Today, April 1, is the 149th birthday of our synagogue. And it sits empty. When the time came to close our synagogue due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, we were very careful to say that it was just our synagogue’s physical facility that was closing. Our doors were closing, but the synagogue itself…
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News How to help bring food to the needy this Passover
Kosher food pantries have spent months preparing for Passover, a pricey holiday during which many Jewish New Yorkers need some extra help putting food on the table. But with coronavirus taking a toll on family finances, those pantries are seeing a rapid increase in demand for their services. The Forward wrote about the challenges food…
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Fast Forward L.A. Jewish day school donates 2,000 N95 masks
(JTA) — A Jewish day school in Los Angeles donated 2,000 N95 face masks to a local medical center and to local police. The de Toledo High School in the West Hills neighborhood said in a statement that while doing a thorough cleaning of the campus, it found boxes of the masks purchased for the…
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News 6 Jewish coronavirus initiatives you can support from home
(JTA) — As the coronavirus continues to spread, synagogues, Jewish centers and other organizations that serve as gathering places for the community around the world have closed. But even while communities cannot come together physically, some are still organizing projects to provide support to those who are suffering or at perilous risk amid the pandemic….
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News Letter from Chicago: In pandemic, Gov. Pritzker finds his moment
The upside of tough times is that you learn on whom you can count, sometimes in unanticipated ways. Those who already knew Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois may have not been surprised by his decisive, compassionate leadership during the coronavirus crisis, or by his willingness to take on President Donald Trump while seeking vital supplies,…
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News Sleepaway camp is still possible — but increasingly unlikely
Dr. Dara Kass loves summer camp. She was a camper and a counselor herself when she was younger. Her kids go to summer camp. She now volunteers as a camp doctor. And she co-founded a company called Camp Health Consulting, which works with summer camps to improve their health systems and is an official affiliate…
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News Young Jews away from home are trying to figure out how to have Passover by themselves
(JTA) — Randi Bergman isn’t sure of her Passover plans yet, but there’s a good chance she’ll be spending the holiday alone. Bergman, a 34-year-old freelance fashion writer, lives alone in what she calls a junior one-bedroom apartment in downtown Toronto. The setup — desk, bed, couch, TV, kitchenette but no dining table — fits…
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