The latest news from the New York Jewish Week.
As it has done repeatedly over its 90-year history, YIVO is collecting first-person stories from the Jewish public, this time related to the lived experience of the Covid-19 pandemic. Stefanie Halpern, director of the YIVO Archive, initiated this latest effort with her colleagues, who last week sent out a call for material through their website, […]
An international ethics committee has approved testing of a device developed by Israeli companies that could potentially diagnose the coronavirus in under a minute. The Jerusalem Post reports that the new method is based on a breathing machine developed by Israeli companies Next-Gen and Scentech Medical, and is similar to the breathalyzer machine that police […]
What a prominent evangelical’s gift of unusable scrolls to the Museum of the Bible reveals about the murky world of Torah appraisal.