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Synagogues hesitant to re-open

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

, 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

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

“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...

Many anticipate a baby boom, but infertility stress is heightened by COVID-19

By Orit Arfa Amy Klein thought she had a hard time with infertility, having gone through 10 doctors, nine rounds of IVF in three countries and four miscarriages. But she...

Kibbutz Lavi retools for remote Judaism

By Nathan Jeffay With synagogues shut, a kibbutz has started working on a solution for the new world of cyber-prayer: a home ark for rabbis to use in their webcam...

What does it mean to be alive at this time?

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

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

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

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...