Botwinick: Civility Is Not Science
By Dr. Chaim Y. Botwinick
Over the past several weeks, we have witnessed a daunting increase in COVID-19 cases throughout the United States. Many of these infection rates, especially in...
Orthodox Doctors Battle COVID, Disinformation in Orthodox Communities
(JTA) — The doctor burst into public view in the pandemic’s early days, vaulting from behind the scenes to the front lines of a crisis bringing his community to...
Fighting Coronavirus: It’s All About Emunah
By Dr. Gila Jedwab
During the past nine weeks, we have had the rare opportunity to see people’s inner nature magnified and easily discernible to the naked eye. People’s personalities...
Sukkot Brings Its Own Social Distancing Issues
(JTA) — Sukkot, the harvest festival that Jews celebrate each fall, would seem to be designed for the COVID-19 pandemic. After all, it’s typically observed outdoors in temporary structures,...
Vizhnitzer Rebbe Denounces Jewish Snitches Who Report Shutdown Infractions
BY SHIRA HANAU
(JTA) — The leader of a major Hasidic sect in Israel denounced those who inform on other Jews for violating school closure orders and other restrictions intended to...
Dr. Marc Sicklick: Wear a Mask
It’s been several weeks of changing times and attitudes. What has happened to COVID-19 during that time? What is my personal take on the current situation and what do...
In Memory of Jack Tarzik, a’h
By Daniel Stroock
Last week, I received terrible news. A person very dear to me, Jack Tarzik, had passed away. Jack was sick for weeks in the hospital, battling COVID-19,...
R. Schachter: Didn’t Know ParCare Vaccination Broke Rules
(JTA) — Rabbi Hershel Schachter, a leading Modern Orthodox rabbi who received a COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at a clinic now under investigation for improperly administering the vaccine, said he was led...
COVID-19 Infections Force Darchei to Suspend In-Person Learning
Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway closed Tuesday and will remain closed while the New York City Department of Health investigates reports of 13 active COVID-19 infections at the...
Former Councilman Noach Dear Dies of Coronavirus
Brooklyn judge and former City Councilman Noach Dear died of coronavirus Sunday. Dear, 66, had been sick with COVID-19 for weeks and was on a ventilator.
Noach served on the...