Tag: #coronavirus
Hospitalist hopeful of ‘light at the end of the tunnel’
Larry HankinApr 17, 2020
Dr. Marcus Oginsky was in medical school, he learned about pandemics from a mathematical standpoint, but nothing prepared him for the front lines as he treats the...
Sun Valley is a pandemic hotspot
Penny Schwartz, JTAApr 17, 2020
SUN VALLEY, Ida. — Even before the arrival of the coronavirus upended Passover plans across the world, the Wood River Jewish Community’s seder was going to be...
Israel health minister both bitterly criticized and highly praised
Sam Sokol, JTAApr 17, 2020
BEIT SHEMESH, Israel — Just hours after Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman tested positive earlier this month for the novel coronavirus, technicians arrived at his...
How to run a marathon — on your balcony
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 17, 2020
PARIS — Elisha Nochomovitz, a 32-year-old French Jew, was to be among the 17,000 participants in the Barcelona Marathon on March 15. But the marathon, one of...
Pandemics then and now
Shana GoldbergApr 17, 2020
I’ve lived through one pandemic, H1N1, and must admit I basically have no recollection of it. Was I not tuned in? Did it not pose that big of a threat? […]
Ted Ruskin
IJN StaffApr 17, 2020
Theodore “Ted” Paul Ruskin, whose activism mirrored the evolving face of Jewish Denver, passed away from COVID-19 on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at the Medical Center of...
Shabbos in a time of coronavirus
Hillel GoldbergApr 17, 2020
Two halves of a whole. The coronavirus shines a poignant light on one-half that has virtually no toehold in our consciousness. It’s strange. If we take a different...
Food deliveries to first responders
Chris LeppekApr 08, 2020
have discovered in the past few weeks that watching the news might best be something taken in small measures. Whether delivered via the internet, the television or in...
On the front lines: Comforting the sick at Rose
Andrea JacobsApr 08, 2020
Jeffrey Kaye, Rose Medical Center’s director of chaplaincy services and its Jewish chaplain, creates space in an unending day to describe his sacred work in the midst...
Zoom bris
Larry HankinApr 08, 2020
eight-day-old Ezra Samuel Knaster was welcomed into the covenant with his bris milah, there were only four people in the room, including Ezra. Ezra’s virtual bris —...
