CATHLEEN KRONEMER, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 5, 2021
As the leaves turn from verdant green to robust shades of orange, yellow and red, losing their tenuous hold on the tree branches and drifting aimlessly downward, Jews recognize this as not only heralding the coming of autumn but also the advent of the...
(JTA) — Birthright Israel is resuming its trips after a month of cancellations over Israeli COVID-19 quarantine rules, the organization announced Thursday.
Participants who have been fully vaccinated in the past six months will not have to quarantine...
(JTA) — Greece has appointed a health minister who defended the antisemitic writings of his father in court more than a decade ago.
Thanos Plevris, who was named to his post as part of a government reshuffle, said Wednesday in a statement that he...
Abigail Klein Leichman
• Published August 30, 2021
(Israel21c) - One of the biggest breakthroughs in cancer treatment today is immunotherapy. Rather than flooding the body with toxic chemicals and radiation, this method recruits the patient’s own system to fight the cancer.
While the immune system’s...
St. Louis area faith leaders— including Rabbi Amy Feder, Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel and President of the St. Louis Rabbinical and Cantorial Association—are joining together to encourage vaccination among St. Louis area worshippers. In an approximately...
This article originally appeared on Alma.
The High Holidays are approaching. Right now, we are in the Hebrew month of Elul. Elul is a time for metaphorical and literal sweeping, for dusting the cobwebs of our home and souls. The letters that make...
(JTA) — For the second year, COVID-19 has made it so Jews who want to attend High Holidays services must undergo a complicated risk calculation.
Is it safe to go to synagogue for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? Should I bring my children? Is the shofar...
(JTA) — Israel has ended a restriction on blood donation that effectively prohibited gay men from donating blood.
Until now, Israel had prohibited any man who had had same-sex relations over the past 12 months from giving blood. Now, the question’s...
(JTA) — The Argentines who placed stones in front of the Casa Rosada government building this week were marking a grim milestone in their country’s COVID-19 experience: crossing the 100,000-death threshold.
They were also echoing a Jewish...
Abigail Klein Leichman
• Published August 19, 2021
(Israel21c) - The elderly population appears to be more vulnerable to Covid-19, and vaccines are less effective in protecting them. Now we know why.
For her doctoral thesis under the guidance of immunology Prof. Doron Melamed, Technion-Israel Institute...
Abigail Klein Leichman
• Published August 17, 2021
In February, the world’s attention was focused on Covid-19 experimental drugs. By April, with the worldwide vaccine campaign in full swing, Covid treatments didn’t seem important anymore.
Now that we know the virus isn’t going away despite...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21C
• Published August 16, 2021
Even with Israel’s world-leading rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations, drugs to treat Covid patients are in desperate need across the world.
Two such drugs developed in Israel show great promise in clinical trials: EXO-CD24 and Allocetra.
EXO-CD24,...
