Coronavirus

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

This Jewish medical student is helping reduce racial disparities in coronavirus testing

Tal Lee is volunteering with the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, an initiative to combat the pandemic’s high death rate among African-Americans.

By Josefin Dolsten May 14, 2020 5:00 pm

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Jewish-backed fund will help South Africans most affected by COVID-19

The money will be distributed in rural and urban areas in six provinces.

May 14, 2020 2:56 pm

A group of USY members on a visit to Millennium Park in Chicago. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Conservative Jewish youth group USY cancels summer travel programs due to COVID-19

The announcement comes as some Conservative Ramah camps are set to announce that they will cancel their sessions.

May 14, 2020 1:36 pm

Senate legislation would expand COVID-19 projects with Israel to lessen dependence on China

By Marcy Oster May 14, 2020 1:29 pm

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Israelis stuck in Morocco taken out in secret operation aboard Sheldon Adelson’s plane

By Marcy Oster May 14, 2020 11:13 am

Rising sixth graders at Camp Ramah in California on the beach during an overnight trip. The camp has said "we cannot open camp in mid-June or run our summer sessions as scheduled." (Courtesy of Ramah in California)

With hope fading and regulations tightening, more Jewish camps set to cancel

By Ben Sales May 13, 2020 5:33 pm

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks about combating racism at the Reform Biennial in Chicago on December 12, 2019. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism)

Union for Reform Judaism announces layoffs and furloughs

By Shira Hanau May 13, 2020 4:55 pm

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‘The entire system got confused’: Israeli schools reopen, but many parents aren’t sending their kids back

By Sam Sokol May 13, 2020 4:43 pm

Israel sends ‘a big hug’ to Diaspora Jewish communities hard hit by COVID-19

By Marcy Oster May 13, 2020 10:24 am

Rabbi Michael Azoulay, second from right, reading the Torah with congregants at the synagogue of Neuilly-sur-Seine, Dec. 11, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Emerging from lockdown, French Jews take stock of community’s ‘enormous losses’

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 12, 2020 5:01 pm

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