By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published March 18, 2020
If I were a coach talking with a locker room full of local print journalists, here is what I would tell them: “This is our last, best shot.”This coronavirus pandemic poses a grave threat to newspapers, many of which were already teetering on the brink...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published March 18, 2020
Kol Rinah held its last in-person minyan for at least the next few weeks on Monday morning.The Conservative congregation sent out an email just after midnight alerting members of the cancelation of the daily services and its early childhood center, among...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published March 18, 2020
All across the St. Louis Jewish community, rabbis are calling congregants at greater risk for the coronavirus to ensure that these people have what they need, said Rabbi Garth Silberstein of Bais Abraham Congregation. Bais Abe has a small enough membership...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published March 18, 2020
St. Louis Jewish Community Center President and CEO Lynn Wittels announced Monday night that the J would shut down at 6 p.m. Tuesday and remain closed until at least April 3 because of concerns over the spread of the coronavirus.She explained that she...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published March 18, 2020
Henry Rosenzweig admits that last week, when plans for his March 14 bar mitzvah at Central Reform Congregation began to unravel, he was plenty disappointed. But in the end, the 13-year-old’s empathy for others helped him refocus his energy and taught...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published March 9, 2020
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has canceled a scheduled trip to Israel as a precaution because of the global spread of the coronavirus.The Republican governor had been scheduled to travel Friday to Israel and other countries in the Middle East as part of a...
(JTA) — Israel will require all travelers from abroad to complete a 14-day quarantine, according to the latest regulation aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus in the country.The decision, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced late...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night called the spread of coronavirus a “global pandemic,” and the director-general of the Health Ministry said some restrictions could be placed on Israelis returning from...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The two people who participated in last week’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual conference who have tested positive for coronavirus did not pose a risk to others at the conference, the District of Columbia Health...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee warned Congress, the Trump administration and activists among others that at least two people who attended the lobby’s policy conference have tested positive for the coronavirus.The conference,...
NEW YORK (JTA) —“Really, Mother?! A BELL?!”Dinner was ready at around 7 p.m., so I walked down the hall to my children’s wing and dropped off their plates — with a bell, so they could ring for me and get my attention when I didn’t have my...
This letter has been reposted with the permission of Rabbi Reuven Fink.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (JTA) — As so many of us are now contemplating going into a Shabbos of seclusion, I want to share a few thoughts with you.
We all woke up Tuesday morning...
