Covid-19

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

The London average for people with natural antibodies is believed to be about 11%.

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.

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.

Global

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

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

Global

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

Global

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

United States

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

Global

Austrian Jewish community leader apologizes for wrongly administered COVID vaccines

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

Global

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

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)

Bonds of Life

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

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