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We need to step up our charitable giving during the pandemic — it’s the Jewish thing to do

It’s wonderful that many Jewish institutions are redoubling their efforts to help those in need. But are we, as Jewish individuals and families, doing the same?

By Yvette Alt Miller November 19, 2020 3:25 pm

from Kveller

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

“A lot of the great breakthroughs in America have come from people that immigrated,” said the Swedish Jewish doctor turned pharmaceutical industry leader.

November 16, 2020 6:21 pm

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

Tal Zaks has a doctorate from Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba.

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

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, pictured right, is juxtaposed with Josef Mengele on the front page of the Makeleio daily in Greece on Nov. 10, 2020. (Courtesy of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece)

Greek newspaper likens Pfizer’s Jewish CEO with the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in front-page photo

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 12, 2020 1:42 pm

NY schools in Orthodox neighborhoods with COVID upticks can reopen under new testing plan

By Shira Hanau October 30, 2020 5:05 pm

Abraham Grossman, center. (Courtesy of his family)

Abraham Grossman, 95, fled Germany as a boy but returned as a soldier bearing Jewish insignia

By Cnaan Liphshiz October 28, 2020 1:33 pm

For the first time ever, Stockholm has a Swedish-born rabbi

By Josefin Dolsten October 23, 2020 11:34 am

In Israel, some journalists are being attacked while covering haredi Orthodox communities during COVID-19

By Sam Sokol October 22, 2020 5:15 pm

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Everything I learned from quarantining with my Holocaust survivor grandmother

By Emily Barasch October 22, 2020 10:07 am

from Hey Alma

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We need to step up our charitable giving during the pandemic — it’s the Jewish thing to do

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

Greek newspaper likens Pfizer’s Jewish CEO with the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in front-page photo

NY schools in Orthodox neighborhoods with COVID upticks can reopen under new testing plan

Abraham Grossman, 95, fled Germany as a boy but returned as a soldier bearing Jewish insignia

For the first time ever, Stockholm has a Swedish-born rabbi

In Israel, some journalists are being attacked while covering haredi Orthodox communities during COVID-19

Everything I learned from quarantining with my Holocaust survivor grandmother

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