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Rabbi Michael Azoulay, second from right, reading the Torah with congregants at the synagogue of Neuilly-sur-Seine, Dec. 11, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Emerging from lockdown, French Jews take stock of community’s ‘enormous losses’

Communal life remains paralyzed after the news that over 1,300 French Jews, including several community leaders, have died from the coronavirus.

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 12, 2020 5:01 pm

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NJ rabbi arrested for violating social distancing

Rabbi Yisrael Knopfler organized an event for Lag B’Omer, a holiday that commemorates the end of a historic plague.

May 12, 2020 4:53 pm

Director-general of Israel’s Health Ministry resigns after clashing with government officials over coronavirus reopening

Moshe Bar-Siman-Tov has been criticized for the very strict measures he ordered to combat the coronavirus.

May 12, 2020 4:14 pm

‘It’s too early,’ Des Moines rabbi tells Mike Pence about resuming religious services

By Marcy Oster May 10, 2020 7:29 pm

Wait to resume services, then proceed carefully, Orthodox Jews are told

By Marcy Oster May 10, 2020 7:18 pm

Pedestrians walking outside the Jewish Museum of Munich on March 24, 2007. (Wikimedia Commons/Maximilian Dörrbecker)

Jewish museums in Munich and Vienna announce plans to reopen this month

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 7, 2020 4:06 pm

No time for a breather: A nurse’s account of Israel’s first coronavirus death and life inside a COVID-19 ward

By Ruth Ebenstein April 30, 2020 5:00 pm

NY police knew an Orthodox rabbi’s Brooklyn funeral was happening – hundreds still showed up

By Shira Hanau April 29, 2020 5:04 pm

Ideas

Mayor de Blasio is no enemy of Orthodox Jews. But others are weaponizing the coronavirus to vilify our community.

By Rabbi Avi Shafran April 29, 2020 4:24 pm

The atrium at the Beth Shalom nursing home in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (courtesy of BOP architecten)

Amsterdam’s Jewish nursing home has lost over 20% of its residents to COVID-19. Could it have done more?

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 28, 2020 3:09 pm

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