Covid-19

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Israel should help all Palestinians get vaccinated — whether legally obligated to or not

Israel is a country with the resources and ingenuity to vaccinate not only its own citizens, but Palestinians as well. It would be in Israel’s best interests to do so.

By Matan Arad-Neeman March 24, 2021 1:04 pm

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The world is in pain this Passover. These rabbis have wisdom to help us embrace it.

I asked several rabbis to reflect on a part of the Seder that feels different this year, after a full year of plague. In their own ways, all wrote about pain.

March 23, 2021 5:52 pm

Belarusian soldier guard the border to Ukraine against hundreds of Jewish pilgrims on Sept, 15, 2020. (Courtey of Shahar Eliyahu)

Ukraine to let in vaccinated Israeli pilgrims for Rosh Hashanah

The announcement about the move also said that Israel is in talks about giving Ukraine COVID-19 vaccinations.

March 19, 2021 6:22 am

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, left, speaks during a press conferencw tih Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban in Jerusalem, Israel on March 11, 2021. (GPO)

Czech prime minister opens Jerusalem embassy office on COVID-related Israel trip with Hungarian counterpart

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 12, 2021 10:23 am

Clockwise from top left: Gabrielle Kaplan-Meyer, Rabbi Seth Winberg, Rabbi Aaron Brusso, Simone Somekh, Linda S. Haase, Meyer Labin, Sara Nuss-Galles, and Dr. Gary Slutkin (Courtesy)

Ideas

Their writing helped us make sense of a pandemic that was just beginning. Here’s what they’re thinking about as we enter year 2.

By Laura E. Adkins March 4, 2021 4:56 pm

Ideas

Israel’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ is a scandal, not Michael Che’s ‘SNL’ joke

By Adi Adamit-Gorstein February 25, 2021 5:19 pm

Text Messages Ideas

Why should we go back to synagogue?

By Rabbi Yosie Levine February 17, 2021 2:13 pm

Despite COVID lockdowns, anti-Semitic incidents see only slight drop in Britain

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 10, 2021 7:00 pm

Ideas

Our government can’t force us to take the COVID-19 vaccine, but our morals should compel us to

By Rabbi Yosie Levine February 9, 2021 5:50 pm

A view to a commercial area of the London borough of Hackney. (City of London)

In study of 1,800 haredi Orthodox Jews in London, most have caught and beat COVID-19

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 2, 2021 10:05 am

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