Coronavirus

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

‘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.

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5 Jewish NGOs join appeal to Congress for $60 billion cash infusion

Reform and Orthodox Jews and the Federation and Community Centers umbrellas join an appeal to keep nonprofits going.

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)

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

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Israel tightens emergency lockdown regulations — and Netanyahu vows they’ll be enforced

Gal Gadot in a video on her Instagram. (Gal Gadot/Instagram)

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Gal Gadot gets celebrity friends to sing ‘Imagine’ with her to lift spirits dampened by coronavirus

Jacob Gross at the yeshiva and synagogue on Canvey Island, UK on Dec. 13, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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Jews in the United Kingdom prepare for distancing as Britain adapts to coronavirus

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‘We’re not scared’: Some haredi Orthodox Jews in Israel are ignoring coronavirus social distancing rules

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Attorney at center of New Rochelle coronavirus outbreak wakes from coma

British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis attending a ceremony in Gibraltar on June 18, 2013. (Courtesy of Mirvis)

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British chief rabbi orders synagogues closed over coronavirus

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