Health

Lawrence Bacow, Harvard University’s Jewish president, has the coronavirus

A total of 18 members of the Harvard community have tested positive or “presumptive positive,” according to the school.

The Netherlands is OK with citizens being exposed to the coronavirus. That’s both reassuring and terrifying to me.

JTA’s chief European correspondent reflects on life in Holland, where the government has opted against the imposition of full-scale social distancing.

The Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue in Moscow, Russia. (Wikimedia Commons/Sergeiy Estrin)

Moscow congregation told to self-isolate after synagogue’s rabbi gets coronavirus

Gershon Lisus is a healthy man who never smoked yet is fighting for his life due to lung complications, his wife said.

London rabbinical court allowing some products not certified kosher for Passover due to coronavirus

It could be easy to lose sense of time during the coronavirus pandemic. Jewish tradition has an antidote for that.

Rabbi among 3 arrested for operating a mikvah in Buenos Aires

At least 65 yeshiva students returning to Israel from Crown Heights test positive for coronavirus

Harvey Weinstein reportedly diagnosed with coronavirus in prison

2 Orthodox Jews die of coronavirus in London; another succumbs in Paris

Kiryas Joel Satmar rabbi is reportedly diagnosed with the coronavirus

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