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Pedestrians walking outside the Jewish Museum of Munich on March 24, 2007. (Wikimedia Commons/Maximilian Dörrbecker)

Jewish museums in Munich and Vienna announce plans to reopen this month

They will be the first Jewish museums in Europe to make the move.

No time for a breather: A nurse’s account of Israel’s first coronavirus death and life inside a COVID-19 ward

Rachel Gemara cared for Israel’s first coronavirus casualty, a Holocaust survivor. She’s been pushed to the brink of emotional exhaustion by the pandemic.

NY police knew an Orthodox rabbi’s Brooklyn funeral was happening – hundreds still showed up

Some are questioning whether the police could have done more to stop the public procession before the crowd grew into the hundreds or thousands.

Mayor de Blasio is no enemy of Orthodox Jews. But others are weaponizing the coronavirus to vilify our community.

The atrium at the Beth Shalom nursing home in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (courtesy of BOP architecten)

Amsterdam’s Jewish nursing home has lost over 20% of its residents to COVID-19. Could it have done more?

Israel sending some kids back to school as coronavirus cases drop

Jewish hotel in Poland offers free rooms to doctors wary of exposing their families to coronavirus germs

Arab Israelis fear that Ramadan could bring a coronavirus surge

In Germany, where coronavirus is at bay, synagogues prepare to reopen with precautions

US cancels work visa for Israeli who flew back and forth knowing he had COVID-19

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