Coronavirus

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

NJ rabbi arrested for violating social distancing

Rabbi Yisrael Knopfler organized an event for Lag B’Omer, a holiday that commemorates the end of a historic plague.

By Shira Hanau May 12, 2020 4:53 pm

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Director-general of Israel’s Health Ministry resigns after clashing with government officials over coronavirus reopening

Moshe Bar-Siman-Tov has been criticized for the very strict measures he ordered to combat the coronavirus.

May 12, 2020 4:14 pm

The main entrance of the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center in Denver, photographed in 2018. JCCs are among the establishment institutions prioritized by a $91 million Jewish coronavirus relief fund. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The biggest Jewish coronavirus relief fund will soon start giving out loans

The $91 million fund is focusing on longstanding, establishment Jewish organizations.

May 12, 2020 2:28 pm

Brazil’s president criticized for coronavirus motto that recalls ‘Arbeit macht frei,’ the infamous Auschwitz gate sign

By Marcus M. Gilban May 12, 2020 12:33 pm

Help stop anti-Semitic coronavirus conspiracy theories, German Jewish group asks government

By Toby Axelrod May 12, 2020 12:09 pm

Post-Pandemic Jewish Future Ideas

Technology makes Jewish education more accessible. We must ensure the tradeoff isn’t our values.

By Henry Abramson May 11, 2020 5:10 pm

Jewish attorney at center of COVID-19 outbreak in New York area still has no idea how he got it

By Marcy Oster May 11, 2020 12:49 pm

San Diego-area shopper asked to remove face mask decorated with Nazi swastika

By Marcy Oster May 11, 2020 11:35 am

Jewish umbrella group adopts emergency coronavirus crisis resolutions

By Marcy Oster May 11, 2020 11:29 am

2 arrested for allegedly ripping face masks off Jews in Brooklyn

By Marcy Oster May 11, 2020 9:48 am

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