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All the latest on COVID-19 from across the Jewish world.

Major League Baseball’s official historian on Jews in baseball and making sense of the weirdest season of all time

John Thorn, who was born in a displaced persons camp, opens up about baseball’s wacky present and its future.

By Stephen Silver September 15, 2020 10:35 am

Israelis prepare for a second national lockdown to prevent spread of the coronavirus

The new lockdown will begin at 2 p.m. on Friday, hours before the start of the Rosh Hashanah holiday, and run for at least three weeks.

September 14, 2020 5:33 pm

Leading Orthodox Israeli lawmaker compares ignoring lockdown rules to murder

“I walk around and see observant Jews, with beards, walking without masks. I look and want to shout ‘Who gave you permission?'” Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said.

September 14, 2020 5:16 pm

‘This is what we expected’: COVID closures and quarantines already widespread at New York-area Jewish day schools

By Shira Hanau September 14, 2020 4:48 pm

‘I miss you. And I love you’: What American rabbis are thinking as the Jewish new year dawns during the pandemic

By Ben Harris September 14, 2020 4:18 pm

Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue will be closed for the High Holidays for the first time

By Marcy Oster September 14, 2020 12:00 pm

Gal Gadot’s ‘Wonder Woman’ sequel debut delayed again until Christmas

By Marcy Oster September 14, 2020 11:52 am

Top Orthodox minister resigns as backlash against new COVID lockdown mounts in Israel

By Philissa Cramer September 13, 2020 12:10 pm

Amid increasing COVID alarm, packed services held at Chabad’s Brooklyn headquarters Saturday night

By Philissa Cramer September 13, 2020 9:43 am

Nearly a year after attempted Yom Kippur attack, pandemic forces Halle Jews out of synagogue for High Holidays

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 11, 2020 10:24 am

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Major League Baseball’s official historian on Jews in baseball and making sense of the weirdest season of all time

Israelis prepare for a second national lockdown to prevent spread of the coronavirus

Leading Orthodox Israeli lawmaker compares ignoring lockdown rules to murder

‘This is what we expected’: COVID closures and quarantines already widespread at New York-area Jewish day schools

‘I miss you. And I love you’: What American rabbis are thinking as the Jewish new year dawns during the pandemic

Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue will be closed for the High Holidays for the first time

Gal Gadot’s ‘Wonder Woman’ sequel debut delayed again until Christmas

Top Orthodox minister resigns as backlash against new COVID lockdown mounts in Israel

Amid increasing COVID alarm, packed services held at Chabad’s Brooklyn headquarters Saturday night

Nearly a year after attempted Yom Kippur attack, pandemic forces Halle Jews out of synagogue for High Holidays

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