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Pandemic Times
Running a Jewish Day School Just Got a Lot More Expensive. Parents Shouldn’t Be the Only Ones Paying the Price
All of us who care about our schools and our families need to create a paradigm shift in education funding.
Each Person, A World: Jewish Lives Lost to the Coronavirus
Every soul, the Torah teaches, is an entire world. It is the duty of the living to remember the deceased and all the good they did.
Israeli Scientists Conducting COVID-19 Trial that Offers Result in 1 Second
The test examines an individual’s saliva.
Back to School 2020: Local Jewish Day Schools Have Plans for Both Distance and In-Person Learning
Principals and administrators have spent much of the summer ironing out multiple plans to return, whether in-person, online, or some combination of the two.
With Synagogues off-Limits for the High Holy Days, Attention Is Turning to Jewish Practice at Home
To some, the shift in focus from synagogues to homes as the center of Jewish life is a healthy recalibration for a culture in which synagogues had become too central.
OB-GYN Chavi Eve Karkowsky on Working With High Risk Pregnancies in a Pandemic
Today, Karkowsky is back in the U.S. and on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, treating patients during the pandemic.
Death of a Parent During Coronavirus
I have discovered that mourning and bereavement are the loneliest undertakings on Earth.
HolocaustFaceMasks.Com Stops Selling the Masks and Plans to Shut Down
It had sold less than 10 masks.
To Shrink Classes Amid COVID-19, Israel Needs to Hire 15,000 Teachers
The hiring spree will begin in earnest only next week, in hopes of delivering half of the needed educators to classrooms by January — five months into the school year.