A Jewish camp in Wisconsin has closed early due to a COVID outbreak
(TCJewfolk via JTA) — A Jewish summer camp in Wisconsin sent its campers and staff home three days early following a COVID outbreak affecting nine cabins.
Herzl Camp in Webster...
Study: Recovered COVID patients don’t benefit from vaccine
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The people of this country are blessed. The unprecedented speed of development and deployment of the vaccine for COVID-19 has brought us...
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By Rep. Andrew Garbarino
Member of Congress
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have fought for the safety and wellbeing of Long Islanders by working with community leaders and...
Stress Eating in Response to COVID? Religious Belief May Help
February 24, 2021--Religion may offer protection against stress-related weight gain, according to a new study published in The Journal of Religion and Health. Touro College Graduate School of Social...
In study of 1,800 haredi Orthodox Jews in London, most have caught and beat...
(JTA) — In a study of 1,800 people from a single Jewish haredi community in London, 64% of those tested appeared to have contracted and beat the coronavirus, researchers...
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Netanyahu Reaches Out to Maran HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Following the uptick in the COVID 19 pandemic, Israel's Prime Minister reached out to Rav Chaim Kanievsky for assistance in stopping the spread of the Corona...
Opinion: CDC Vaccine Policy Could Kill 500 More People Per Day
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Currently, COVID-19 in America is killing 3,000 people every day. What follows is an analysis of the Center for Disease Control’s policy regarding who should be...
British Doctors Refute Conspiracy Theories on COVID-19
Jewish doctors warned against conspiracy theories claiming the COVID-19 vaccine causes infertility or contains products derived from pork.
Jewish News reported on Friday that the open letter, signed by more than 70 British-Jewish...
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