Tag: #coronavirus
Coronavirus: Who is in control?
Hillel GoldbergMar 19, 2020
Am I the only one thinking of the Holocaust? Darkness descended: Suddenly. Dangerously. Transforming reality, totally. Impossible to get a grip on because never seen...
O the virus, o the guilt
TPSMar 19, 2020
JERUSALEM — Some 15 years after an Israeli stole a ballista stone from the archaeological site in the City of David, he decided this weekend to return the...
The implications of communal shut-down
Jonathan TobinMar 19, 2020
For many Jewish communities in the US, this was the week when synagogues were abandoned. In an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, houses of worship were...
Community, despite social distancing
Tehilla R. GoldbergMar 19, 2020
“Eicha yashvah badad, Alas, she [Jerusalem] sits in solitude.” Thus opens the Scroll of Lamentations. It’s what I said to a friend of mine living in Jerusalem...
How fast it comes
Shana GoldbergMar 19, 2020
It’s amazing how quickly things change. I had tickets for the Colorado Avalanche vs. Vegas Golden Knights game for this past Sunday, March 15. As a huge fan of both...
Kudos to Governor Polis
IJN Editorial StaffMar 19, 2020
Credit where credit is due: Governor Jared Polis has done a remarkable job leading our state through what is undoubtedly the state’s biggest public health challenge...
How not to fight the coronavirus
IJN Editorial StaffMar 19, 2020
Hand it to the Chinese government. Having initiated a pandemic by suppressing knowledge of it and treatment of it when it first came to its attention last December, the...
In the past, anti-Semitism has been a side effect of viruses
JTAMar 12, 2020
By Henry Abramson Over the course of our millennial history, Jews have had many encounters with contagious diseases. Often we’re blamed for them. Maybe I’m paranoid,...
What about the permanently quarantined?
Tehilla R. GoldbergMar 12, 2020
Bidud. Bedidut. Hitbodedut. These three Hebrew words overlap as they are all rooted in the same three Hebrew letters bet, daled, daled; equivalent in English to B.D.D....
Is a radical reaction to the coronavirus reasonable?
IJN Editorial StaffMar 12, 2020
We’ve all heard it: A vastly greater number of people will die from the flu this year than from the corona- virus. Not to mention, the odds of getting killed
