Ideas 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.
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.
‘I’m mentally preparing for a few months’: Meet an Israeli doctor on the coronavirus front lines Elli Rosenberg, a clinical immunologist who works as an internist at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva, shared his experience with JTA.
Aging Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust are at risk from the coronavirus. So this Jewish group is delivering food to them.
‘We’re not scared’: Some haredi Orthodox Jews in Israel are ignoring coronavirus social distancing rules