ERIC BERGER, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 8, 2022
About a year ago, Mike Weinhaus was on the phone with a representative from his insurance company when the person asked, “Are you the family that was on the news with COVID?”
Weinhaus, a member of Congregation Shaare Emeth, was indeed part of the...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c
• Published December 2, 2021
It’s hard to believe we never heard of Omicron until a week ago. It was November 26 when the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variant B.1.1.529 a “variant of concern” and named it Omicron after the 15th letter...
Gary Nachman, ADL Plains States Regional Director
• Published October 20, 2021
If ignorance is bliss, it would seem we are living in joyful times.
I read an article this weekend about a small group of individuals demanding UNL ease their COVID prevention policies, decrying voluntary proof of vaccination, and refuting the...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c
• Published September 19, 2021
Israeli researchers have determined that a third (“booster”) dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is effective at preventing both infection and severe illness, according to a first-in-world study published September 15 in The New England Journal...
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...
