Covid-19

Jews celebrate a pandemic Purim, some for the first time and some for the second

“I know people are tired and sad, and we’re trying to bring them just a little bit of joy,” one rabbi said.

By Shira Hanau February 1, 2021 12:57 pm

Thousands fill Jerusalem streets for funerals of major haredi Orthodox rabbis

Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik was the head of the Brisk yeshiva in Jerusalem and scion of a major rabbinic dynasty. Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner led the Kamenitz yeshiva.

January 31, 2021 4:46 pm

Haredi Jews in London hold illegal weddings regularly, Jewish newspaper reveals

The bride was COVID-19 positive at one of the events, where lookouts warn guests if they spot police.

January 29, 2021 10:26 am

Antwerp Mayor Bart de Wever in Antwerp, Belgium in May 2014. (Joker / Alexander Stein/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Antwerp mayor says haredi Orthodox ignoring COVID measures has triggered anti-Semitism — and it could get worse

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 26, 2021 4:10 pm

City of Antwerp invites residents of heavily Jewish neighborhoods for COVID-19 testing

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 22, 2021 2:48 pm

In LA and Arizona, COVID death surge overwhelms the Jewish community

By Stewart Ain January 20, 2021 2:47 pm

Austrian Jewish community leader apologizes for wrongly administered COVID vaccines

By Toby Axelrod January 6, 2021 10:49 am

Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich exits the Learning from the Righteous mobile studio in London, UK in December 2020. (Learning from the Righteous)

This customized van is helping UK Holocaust survivors record their stories during the pandemic

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 29, 2020 4:29 pm

Gennady Kernes, in a wheelchair, attends the funeral of his associate and close friend, businessman Yuri Diment, at the Jewish cemetery of Kharkiv, Ukraine on Feb. 26, 2016. (Konstantin Cherginsky/TASS via Getty Images)

Popular Ukrainian mayor Gennady Kernes survived a sniper attack but succumbed to COVID

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 18, 2020 3:35 pm

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Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested New York’s COVID restrictions hold back Orthodox Jewish women. The truth is far more complicated.

By Lorelei Laird November 30, 2020 12:31 pm

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Jews celebrate a pandemic Purim, some for the first time and some for the second

Thousands fill Jerusalem streets for funerals of major haredi Orthodox rabbis

Haredi Jews in London hold illegal weddings regularly, Jewish newspaper reveals

Antwerp mayor says haredi Orthodox ignoring COVID measures has triggered anti-Semitism — and it could get worse

City of Antwerp invites residents of heavily Jewish neighborhoods for COVID-19 testing

In LA and Arizona, COVID death surge overwhelms the Jewish community

Austrian Jewish community leader apologizes for wrongly administered COVID vaccines

This customized van is helping UK Holocaust survivors record their stories during the pandemic

Popular Ukrainian mayor Gennady Kernes survived a sniper attack but succumbed to COVID

Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested New York’s COVID restrictions hold back Orthodox Jewish women. The truth is far more complicated.

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