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A Jewish teenager from the Seattle area has built a website that is keeping the world updated on the COVID-19 pandemic as it spreads. The website, ncov2019.live, has been visited by 12 million people since it launched in late December. Computer whiz Avi Schiffmann, 17, spends much of his time these days constantly updating and […]

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Dave and Kristy Snyder had been looking forward to their son Spencer’s bar mitzvah for months when the coronavirus, and the warnings about gathering in large groups, forced them to cancel it just two days before the event. The couple, who lives in Ridgefield, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis, spent hours over the phone canceling […]

Some time ago, as I meandered through the streets of Paris and the historic Jewish district of Le Marais, I chanced upon the splendid synagogue on Rue Pavée (see photo). The verse “How goodly are thy dwellings, O Israel” (Numbers 24:5) naturally came to mind. It was interesting, I then reflected, that I had used […]

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