Health

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

Rachel Gemara cared for Israel’s first coronavirus casualty, a Holocaust survivor. She’s been pushed to the brink of emotional exhaustion by the pandemic.

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

Some are questioning whether the police could have done more to stop the public procession before the crowd grew into the hundreds or thousands.

Ideas

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

We should be unified in doing all we can to protect ourselves and others from the coronavirus, not point fingers at imaginary culprits like the haredim.