Coronavirus

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

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Summer camp is canceled, but we camp people can still make this summer meaningful for our campers — here’s how.

Four ways to create special memories and connections that can travel with campers as they grow. We owe it to them.

By Molly Wernick June 10, 2020 12:19 pm

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Nearly 50 new immigrants to Israel potentially exposed to coronavirus on flight

A woman who traveled to Israel this week on a flight organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh tested positive for COVID-19 upon her arrival.

June 10, 2020 11:16 am

Israel Security Agency will end controversial practice of tracking people with the coronavirus

The agency has been using cellphone and credit card data since the early days of the pandemic under emergency regulations.

June 9, 2020 1:32 pm

After dramatic rise in COVID-19 infections, Israel halts reopening plans

By Marcy Oster June 8, 2020 3:39 pm

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England is allowing places of worship to reopen for individuals, but synagogues won’t open yet

By Marcy Oster June 8, 2020 2:33 pm

Ira Beer, 82, dedicated his retirement years to Torah study

By Sam Sokol June 8, 2020 12:57 pm

Rabbi Berel Lazar affixing a mezuzah to the front door of the New Synagogue in Kaliningrad, Nov. 8, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar has the coronavirus

By Marcy Oster June 8, 2020 11:13 am

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Synagogues can reopen on limited scale in most of New York state

By Marcy Oster June 7, 2020 8:36 am

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To handle the onslaught of news and renew my strength to engage, I’m taking lessons from Shabbat

By Anna Rahmanan June 5, 2020 4:34 pm

Rabbi Gilberto Ventura, right, and volunteers prepare to dispatch food packages to a needy residents of Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 27, 2020. (Courtesy of Sinagoga sem Fronteiras)

As COVID-19 puts Brazil’s poverty issues into sharp focus, Brazilian Jews rush to help favelas

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 5, 2020 12:48 pm

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