NEW YORK (JTA) — The spread of COVID-19, a new coronavirus, is reshaping Jewish communities. We’re collecting the news flowing in from across the globe here. (If you want to skip the minute-by-minute updates and just understand the broad ways that...
(JTA) — Organizers of the March of the Living insisted that the annual international commemoration in Poland was on course for April despite the cancellation of some delegations over coronavirus fears.On Thursday, following the discovery of the first...
(JTA) — Every Purim, Richard Roberts sponsors a party for more than 2,000 people in the heavily Orthodox New Jersey city of Lakewood, where he gives out, by his estimation, some $200,000 in charity.This year, because of the coronavirus, the party is...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee alerted the thousands of activists who attended its conference this week that a New York group in attendance had been in contact with someone who has the virus.“To our knowledge, no one...
NEW YORK (JTA) — For the past three years, Esther Possick and her son have avoided the hassle of hosting Passover at their Long Island home by traveling to kosher hotels in foreign locales.In 2017, they spent the holiday at a resort in Stresa, a resort...
This is an evolving story. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency will provide updates as they become available. NEW YORK (JTA) — Four Jewish day schools have temporarily closed, while 600 congregants of an Orthodox synagogue and two university students have...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two Yeshiva University students are in self-quarantine as a precaution after potential exposure to coronavirus.According to an all campus alert sent by the university on Tuesday, the second confirmed case of coronavirus in New York...
(JTA) — Ruben Golran had studied for a year and a half in anticipation of this week, when 600 of his relatives and friends were supposed to converge on Milan to celebrate his bar mitzvah.First, he planned to have a ceremony Tuesday when he would put...
