Coronavirus

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

Oxfam removes anti-Semitic fiction ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ from online store

Its chief executive apologized in a phone call to Israel’s U.K. ambassador after the envoy asked in a tweet, “Why is Oxfam selling anti-Semitic literature?”

By Marcy Oster March 24, 2020 2:31 pm

The Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue in Moscow, Russia. (Wikimedia Commons/Sergeiy Estrin)

Moscow congregation told to self-isolate after synagogue’s rabbi gets coronavirus

Gershon Lisus is a healthy man who never smoked yet is fighting for his life due to lung complications, his wife said.

March 24, 2020 2:26 pm

Yehuda Yaakov Refson, a senior rabbi in England, dies of coronavirus

The longtime Chabad emissary to the northern city of Leeds was 73.

March 24, 2020 1:56 pm

Giorgio Sinigaglia attending the writing of a Torah scroll in Milan, Italy. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Milan)

Giorgio Sinigaglia, 54, was a father of 4 and volunteer in Milan’s Jewish community

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 24, 2020 1:04 pm

London rabbinical court allowing some products not certified kosher for Passover due to coronavirus

By Marcy Oster March 24, 2020 10:03 am

Andre Touboul in 2014. (Courtesy of Beth Hanna)

In Paris, a pillar of Jewish education dies from the coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 23, 2020 5:26 pm

First Israeli coronavirus fatality, a Holocaust survivor, is buried with social distancing

By Ron Kampeas March 23, 2020 4:47 pm

Ideas

It could be easy to lose sense of time during the coronavirus pandemic. Jewish tradition has an antidote for that.

By Benjamin Resnick March 23, 2020 4:36 pm

Ideas

Growing up the child of Holocaust survivors prepared me for this pandemic

By Sara Nuss-Galles March 23, 2020 3:11 pm

At least 65 yeshiva students returning to Israel from Crown Heights test positive for coronavirus

By Marcy Oster March 23, 2020 2:01 pm

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Oxfam removes anti-Semitic fiction ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ from online store

Moscow congregation told to self-isolate after synagogue’s rabbi gets coronavirus

Yehuda Yaakov Refson, a senior rabbi in England, dies of coronavirus

Giorgio Sinigaglia, 54, was a father of 4 and volunteer in Milan’s Jewish community

London rabbinical court allowing some products not certified kosher for Passover due to coronavirus

In Paris, a pillar of Jewish education dies from the coronavirus

First Israeli coronavirus fatality, a Holocaust survivor, is buried with social distancing

It could be easy to lose sense of time during the coronavirus pandemic. Jewish tradition has an antidote for that.

Growing up the child of Holocaust survivors prepared me for this pandemic

At least 65 yeshiva students returning to Israel from Crown Heights test positive for coronavirus

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