Coronavirus

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

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Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ songwriter, hospitalized with the coronavirus

He has been in a hospital in upstate New York for over a week now.

By Emily Burack March 31, 2020 11:14 am

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Sheldon Adelson donates 2 million face masks to hospitals and first responders in New York and Nevada

Some 250,000 of the masks will go to the Trump administration’s program to assist health workers.

March 31, 2020 10:59 am

Maurice Bidermann arriving at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France on March 10, 2008 (Pierre Hounsfield/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Maurice Bidermann, French Holocaust survivor and fashion tycoon, dies at 87

The entrepreneur’s family denied a friend’s claim that the 87-year-old industrialists had succumbed to the coronavirus.

March 31, 2020 8:05 am

Western Wall stones sanitized after notes removed

By Marcy Oster March 31, 2020 8:02 am

Iran has been hit hard by the coronavirus. Here’s what that might mean for its threat to the region.

By Ron Kampeas March 30, 2020 3:50 pm

Let my people know: This is the first time I’ve had to plan a seder

By Maya Mirsky March 30, 2020 2:53 pm

First Person Ideas

I thought the coronavirus would make my congregants feel far away. In fact, I’m seeing them more closely than ever.

By Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny March 30, 2020 2:45 pm

Ideas

Should we be shopping for Passover or the pandemic?

By Renée Reizman March 30, 2020 2:39 pm

Netanyahu limits gatherings in Israel to 2 people

By Marcy Oster March 30, 2020 2:29 pm

Bucharest Jews can bury coronavirus dead on Shabbat to avoid cremation, a rabbinical authority rules

By Marcy Oster March 30, 2020 1:57 pm

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