Tag: #coronavirus
Synagogues hesitant to re-open
Josefin Dolsten, JTAApr 30, 2020
NEW YORK — The road to reopening for houses of worship has been paved in a handful of states, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to kill more than 1,500...
IST 2020: Postponed, not cancelled
Larry HankinApr 30, 2020
, not cancelled.” That’s the status of the 2020 Joyce Zeff Israel Study Tour (IST) as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Just as 93 high school juniors’...
Pandemic temporarily suspends family’s aliyah plans
Shana GoldbergApr 30, 2020
if you were to pack up your life and move to a new country? The checklist quickly starts to form: job; accommodations; language; permission to settle; education. Drs....
In care facility, alone with coronavirus — and Holocaust memories
Andrea JacobsApr 23, 2020
“That’s not snow. Those are ashes. We must be near a crematorium.” — Charlotte “Lotty” Stark Stark-Hailpern’s mother Lotty Stark, 96, has severe dementia...
What does it mean to be alive at this time?
Hillel GoldbergApr 23, 2020
What does it mean to be alive at this time, during this unprecedented period in the lives of every person now alive? In the midst of crisis, it is difficult […]
Corona inspiration from Israel
Tehilla R. GoldbergApr 23, 2020
In this era of the coronavirus, when so much of our lives as we know it needs to be recalibrated, when each person in their life stations and circumstances needs...
‘Hit by a truck’: Denver chaplain is recovering from COVID-19
Andrea JacobsApr 17, 2020
Ben Last, who lay suspended between life and death under COVID-19’s aggressive talons in late March, is now back home with his wife Sheryl and three of their five...
Project C.U.R.E mobilizing to collect medical supplies
Chris LeppekApr 17, 2020
better or worse, this is a story well suited for clichés. Such as, what goes around comes around. Or, charity begins at home. For more than three decades, the...