Coronavirus

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

To stop the coronavirus, New Jersey rabbis decide to shut down their Jewish community

Institutions in the heavily Jewish area are taking unprecedented steps amid the spread of the deadly virus.

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Ideas

We asked rabbis for their spiritual guidance in handling the coronavirus crisis. Here’s what they said.

Rabbis share their advice for how to handle the emotional and spiritual toll of the pandemic.

Kids at Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake in New York. (Courtesy of Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake)

Jewish summer camps are already preparing for the coronavirus

Camps dealt with swine flu in 2009 by quarantining kids and taking their temperature twice a day. They’re thinking along the same lines now.

Israel

Israel closes schools and universities due to coronavirus

United States

Jewish aide to Brazilian president tests positive for coronavirus days after meeting with Trump

Global

‘The worst situation we have faced since World War II’: Rome’s Jewish community responds to the coronavirus

Politics

Republican Jewish Coalition conference that was to have featured Trump postponed because of virus concerns

Israel

Thousands of Israelis in the US called home as coronavirus restrictions tighten in their homeland

United States

Preparing for the ‘worst-case scenario’: Jewish aid groups scramble amid the coronavirus outbreak

Ideas

I’m not a doctor, but I am a rabbi. Here’s my spiritual prescription for the COVID-19 pandemic.

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