Coronavirus

All the latest on COVID-19 from across the Jewish world.

Jewish Federations of North America raising $54 million for coronavirus fund

The funds will be used by agencies to provide emergency financial aid and other assistance.

Haredi Orthodox rabbinic leader in Israel tells yeshivas to halt coronavirus testing to avoid closure

Positive tests could send thousands of students into quarantine, which would harm Torah study, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky said.

Dani Rotstein, pointing, explaining to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 11, 2019. Cnaan Liphshiz

It ‘shows a great resilience’: Despite COVID-19, synagogues across Europe will still open for non-Jews for Days of Jewish Culture series

Communities in many cities, including in Spain and Italy, the two countries hit hardest by COVID-19 in Europe, are planning to hold at least some in-person programming on Jewish culture.

Health

Citing COVID uptick, 138 Long Island Jewish doctors ask community to trust medical experts

Culture

Rosh Hashanah dinner, Yom Kippur break-fast, sukkah hops: How risky are these High Holiday activities during COVID-19?

Jewish men walk down a street in the Pushkin area of Uman, Ukraine of ‎Sept. ‎9, ‎2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Global

Haredi Orthodox Jews barred from entering Ukraine for annual Uman pilgrimage

Israel

Israeli government approves coronavirus plan with restrictions based on cities’ infection rates

Politics

South Carolina congressman asks Trump to pressure Ukraine to allow Rosh Hashanah pilgrims

Global

New Zealand father circumcises his son with no mohels available because of coronavirus crisis

United States

‘It’s not the same and everybody knows it’: Jewish campus life goes virtual

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