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Revising previous guidance, Orthodox groups say no shared Passover seders should take place

A previous guidance said that Jews who live alone could join a local family after self-quarantining.

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Pop star Pink, having recovered from coronavirus, is donating $1M to fight the disease

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Larry David says Bernie Sanders, his distant cousin and lookalike, should end his presidential campaign

Frida Wattenberg speaking with her brother, Charles Smiétanski, at the Memorial for the Shoah in Paris, France on Jan. 29, 2019. (Courtesy of the Memorial for the Shoah)

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Frida Wattenberg, 95, smuggled Jewish orphans out of Nazi-occupied France

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Keir Starmer, who has vowed to fight anti-Semitism, replaces Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain’s Labour Party

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 5, 2020 12:09 am

Two Orthodox men wear facemasks in New York City on March 31, 2020. The new coronavirus has spread at an especially high rate through Orthodox neighborhoods in New York. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Conservative pastor says spread of coronavirus in synagogues is punishment from God

The real history behind HBO’s ‘The Plot Against America’

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Passover Bingo, coronavirus quarantine edition

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What happens when we run out of ventilators? Jewish law and state guidelines may have different answers.

Opinion

I fought AIDS in the Jewish community. Here’s what I learned that can help us get through this pandemic.

Culture

You’ve probably forgotten how good ‘The Prince of Egypt’ is. Well, now it’s on Hulu.

By Gabe Friedman April 3, 2020 3:02 pm

Culture

In new Passover children’s books, meet a googly eyed gator and spend a seder in outer space

By Penny Schwartz April 3, 2020 12:07 pm

Bonds of Life

Aron Halpern, 92, survived the Holocaust and thrived in the United States

By Philissa Cramer April 3, 2020 11:08 am

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Revising previous guidance, Orthodox groups say no shared Passover seders should take place

Bonds of Life: Why we’re memorializing those we lose to the coronavirus

CULTURE

Adam Sandler pays tribute to doctors and nurses in brand-new ‘Quarantine Song’

Pop star Pink, having recovered from coronavirus, is donating $1M to fight the disease

Larry David says Bernie Sanders, his distant cousin and lookalike, should end his presidential campaign

Frida Wattenberg, 95, smuggled Jewish orphans out of Nazi-occupied France

Keir Starmer, who has vowed to fight anti-Semitism, replaces Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain’s Labour Party

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Passover Bingo, coronavirus quarantine edition

What happens when we run out of ventilators? Jewish law and state guidelines may have different answers.

I fought AIDS in the Jewish community. Here’s what I learned that can help us get through this pandemic.

You’ve probably forgotten how good ‘The Prince of Egypt’ is. Well, now it’s on Hulu.

In new Passover children’s books, meet a googly eyed gator and spend a seder in outer space

Aron Halpern, 92, survived the Holocaust and thrived in the United States

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Unity Government Urged by Four Labor, Likud Knesseters

Chicago Jewish Physician Isolates Long-Sought-For Germ of Dreaded Influenza

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