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Jewish educator’s name removed from prestigious medical award due to his racist and sexist views

Abraham Flexner has been called the “father” of modern medical education, but he denigrated women and Black people in his seminal 1910 report.

By Ben Sales November 25, 2020 10:41 am

‘Who’s not going to go?’: NY Hasidic Jews continue to hold large weddings despite COVID rules

“We won’t surrender. We won’t close down,” a leading Satmar rabbi said in a speech at a post-wedding celebration held in secret earlier this month.

November 24, 2020 4:38 pm

For Jewish schools, Thanksgiving presents a new test of COVID rules and parent trust

“I’m going to trust that this is a community that’s going to look out for each other,” one mother said, hoping other parents take the pandemic as seriously as she does.

November 23, 2020 11:51 am

Meet Rick Doblin, the Jewish psychedelics advocate working to turn a club drug into legal medicine

By Ben Harris November 19, 2020 12:04 pm

Jewish day schools and yeshivas remain open as NYC public schools close

By Shira Hanau November 18, 2020 6:27 pm

‘It’s knocking on everyone’s doors’: Chicago’s Jewish community is battered by second wave of coronavirus

By Shira Hanau November 17, 2020 3:13 pm

Mikael Dolsten, the Jewish immigrant leading Pfizer’s vaccine charge, hopes the US stays a melting pot

By Gabe Friedman November 16, 2020 6:21 pm

Moderna’s Israeli chief medical officer helps spread his company’s good COVID vaccine news

By Gabe Friedman November 16, 2020 12:05 pm

Israel signs COVID vaccine deal days after Netanyahu noted how Pfizer CEO is ‘proud’ of his Jewish heritage

By Ben Sales November 13, 2020 8:02 pm

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Jewish educator’s name removed from prestigious medical award due to his racist and sexist views

‘Who’s not going to go?’: NY Hasidic Jews continue to hold large weddings despite COVID rules

For Jewish schools, Thanksgiving presents a new test of COVID rules and parent trust

Meet Rick Doblin, the Jewish psychedelics advocate working to turn a club drug into legal medicine

Jewish day schools and yeshivas remain open as NYC public schools close

‘It’s knocking on everyone’s doors’: Chicago’s Jewish community is battered by second wave of coronavirus

Mikael Dolsten, the Jewish immigrant leading Pfizer’s vaccine charge, hopes the US stays a melting pot

Moderna’s Israeli chief medical officer helps spread his company’s good COVID vaccine news

Israel signs COVID vaccine deal days after Netanyahu noted how Pfizer CEO is ‘proud’ of his Jewish heritage

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