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The real reasons coronavirus is spreading in my Hasidic community

To say that my community doesn’t value human life or is being selfish reflects a fundamental lack of understanding, writes someone from Brooklyn’s Satmar community.

Haredi Jews walking in Antwerp, Belgium on March 16, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Antwerp Jewish community braces for 85% infection rate and hundreds of deaths from coronavirus

The high estimate is based on the frequent interaction among members in the tightly knit, mostly Orthodox community.

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)

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

Hasidic movements are reluctantly departing from their tight-knit communal lives in the name of social distancing.

Jonny Daniels delivering groceries to a rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust in Warsaw, Poland on March 17, 2020. (Courtesy of From the Depths)

Aging Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust are at risk from the coronavirus. So this Jewish group is delivering food to them.

2 Jewish professors win Abel Prize, the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in mathematics

He wanted to encapsulate Beijing’s Jewish community in a Passover Haggadah. The coronavirus complicated that.

Pope Francis really likes the Jewish custom of Shabbat

With communal mourning a health hazard, grieving Jews must sit shiva alone

Undeterred by the coronavirus, a couple plans their wedding in Israel in less than 24 hours

‘Big Brother’ Israel contestants are just being told about the extent of the coronavirus pandemic

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