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Chabad children in Argentina study in the movement's online school in 2007. During the new coronavirus outbreak, the school has offered guidance to other Jewish schools transitioning to remote learning. (Courtesy of the Nigri International Shluchim Online School)

United States

Saying Kaddish from balconies and fasting: How Hasidic Jews are responding to the coronavirus

By Ben Sales March 19, 2020

United States

100 people test positive for coronavirus in Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood

By Ben Sales March 17, 2020

A Jewish man reads the Passover Haggadah during a seder in North York, Ontario, Canada on April 19, 2019. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Lifestyle

Passover in a pandemic: Families on Zoom, solo seders and broken traditions

By Ben Sales March 17, 2020

A class for elderly residents to learn Facebook at the Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly in Massachusetts. (Suzanne Kreiter/Getty Images)

United States

No visitors, no group dinners: How Jewish nursing homes are trying to keep seniors safe from the coronavirus

By Ben Sales March 13, 2020

Kids at Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake in New York. (Courtesy of Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake)

United States

Jewish summer camps are already preparing for the coronavirus

By Ben Sales March 12, 2020

Women celebrate completing the seven-and-a-half-year cycle of Talmud study at a ceremony held by the organization Hadran in Jerusalem in January. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Global

In the new Daf Yomi cycle, daily Talmud study is reaching new populations

By Ben Sales March 9, 2020

One of SAR's Zoom sessions Thursday morning included guitar music. (Courtesy of SAR Academy)

United States

How one New York school switched to online learning during its coronavirus closure

By Ben Sales March 6, 2020

Global

Purim is a holiday for partying. This year, the coronavirus makes things different.

By Ben Sales March 4, 2020

Health

Coronavirus triggers closures, mass quarantines for New York Jewish community

By Laura E. Adkins and Ben Sales March 3, 2020

Ruben Golran, a Milanese bar mitzvah boy, upon putting on tefillin for the first time. (Courtesy of the Golran family)

Global

A Syrian Muslim donated a tree in Israel for an Italian boy whose bar mitzvah party was canceled due to coronavirus

By Ben Sales March 3, 2020

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