Coronavirus

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

Buenos Aires stones memorial

To mark 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, Argentina turns to a Jewish cemetery tradition

Mourners frequently place stones on grave markers at Jewish cemeteries.

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An illicit engagement party roils Australian Jews as new COVID-19 outbreak extends lockdown

A video of the party circulating online shows the groom joking about the event’s legality.

Jewish funeral planned for Dick Farrel, prominent COVID skeptic who died of the virus

The talk show host, born Farrel Austin Levitt in Queens, New York, spent his final weeks privately telling friends to get the vaccine.

United States

Jewish Federations of North America cancels in-person General Assembly citing COVID

Politics

AIPAC cancels 2022 policy conference, citing lingering pandemic concerns

Politics

2 Republican state lawmakers liken coronavirus protections to Nazi laws

Ideas

The holiness of returning to summer camp

United States

Federal judge throws out anti-vaccination lawsuit and calls its Nazi analogy ‘reprehensible’

Israel

Israel is ending its COVID restrictions and starting to allow tourists back

New York

A survivalist summer camp for Orthodox Jews is planned for New York — and vaccinated folks aren’t invited

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