JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
The U.S. death toll from the COVID-19 is fast approaching or has already passed 1 million. Jews — at about 2% of the population — are the religious group with the lowest rate of vaccine hesitancy. Yet the community has been hit hard. Health agencies don’t keep track of deaths by religion, but the number…
One million. The U.S. is approaching or has already surpassed that number of COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, according to most calculations — a new order of magnitude of loss that is difficult to grasp. When the U.S. reached 100,000 COVID victims, The New York Times dedicated its entire front page to…
The last time the March of the Living took place at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Poland there were 10,000 participants, including 70 Holocaust survivors. That was in 2019. When the annual event reconvenes next week for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day after a pandemic-induced hiatus, and with war raging in neighboring Ukraine, only 2,000 participants are…
