Tag: #coronavirus
National Jewish expert gives update on COVID science
Andrea JacobsJan 14, 2021
. Philippa Marrack, chair of the Dept. of Immunology and Genomic Medicine at National Jewish Health, appears disinterested in the laudable reputation that precedes her....
Less COVID in Boulder
Chris LeppekDec 31, 2020
a third of a million people live in Boulder County, perhaps one-tenth of whom are Jewish, according to recent demographic studies. Of those human beings, as of Dec. 19,...
Jabbed: Dr. Ari Melmed takes the vaccine
Shana GoldbergDec 24, 2020
Monday morning, Dec. 14, Governor Jared Polis accepted the first delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado. Almost immediately, frontline healthcare...
COVID in Colorado: Where we stand
Chris LeppekNov 05, 2020
is new in our knowledge of COVID-19, of how it is treated, and of the precautions? Last summer, Dr. Lisa Miller, a leading Colorado epidemiologist, provided readers of...
In the new COVID world, how did the holidays go?
Andrea JacobsOct 08, 2020
synagogues struggled well in advance of the High Holidays, with some racing right down to the wire, to develop meaningful Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services amid...
COVID and depression
Andrea JacobsOct 01, 2020
mid-July, 53% of Americans reported feelings of depression and-or anxiety directly related to COVID-19, according to a poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation....
Rabbi Chaitovsky covers terrain of High Holidays
Andrea JacobsAug 27, 2020
Yaakov Chaitovsky of BMH-BJ says that chesbon hanefesh (accounting of the soul), the introspective, preparatory process leading up to the High Holidays, might actually...
Synagogues prepare for unusual High Holidays
Andrea JacobsAug 20, 2020
that Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are around the virus-embedded corner, synagogues prepare to welcome 5781 in ways undreamt of in modern Jewish experience. This High...
Reopening schools amidst a pandemic
Chris LeppekAug 13, 2020
well-worn phrase “back to school” — an inescapable part of our late summer ritual — might not be totally accurate in this strange year of 2020. In a week or two,...
What — still COVID?
IJN Editorial StaffAug 06, 2020
Perhaps more stressful than the COVID shutdown of virtually every institution and many businesses, and the de facto house arrest of millions, is figuring out what the...
