fbpx

Pop Star Pink, Having Recovered From COVID-19, Donates $1M to Fight Disease

[additional-authors]
April 5, 2020
LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 20: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Pink, winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award, attends The BRIT Awards 2019 held at The O2 Arena on February 20, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)

Jewish pop star Pink and her 3-year-old son have recovered from the coronavirus, she announced on Twitter.

She and her son Jameson were sheltering at home in Los Angeles when they began experiencing symptoms and tested positive for COVID-19 two weeks ago, she wrote in a series of tweets Saturday. A retest in recent days came back negative, she said.

She added that she was donating $1 million to fight the coronavirus: $500,000 each to the Temple University Hospital Emergency Fund in Philadelphia and the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Emergency Covid-19 Crisis Fund.

The donation to Temple, she wrote, is in honor of her mother, Judy Moore, who worked there for 18 years in the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Transplant Center.

“Thank you to all of our healthcare professionals and everyone in the world who are working so hard to protect our loved ones. You are our heroes!” wrote Pink, whose real name is Alecia Beth Moore.

She also took aim at the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic.

“It is an absolute travesty and failure of our government to not make testing more widely accessible. This illness is serious and real,” she said in the tweet.

Did you enjoy this article?
You'll love our roundtable.

Editor's Picks

Latest Articles

A Bisl Torah — A Rededication

Just as the flames of the Hannukah candles dance with courage, persistence, and defiance, our spirits desire and deserve the same attention and reigniting.

Are We Dying of a Broken Heart?

Whatever the future holds, we must remember, especially during Hanukkah, that miracles are part and parcel of our history—and will continue to be. We cannot let our sadness overwhelm us.

Of Doughnuts and Dreidels

This week Rachel and I are thrilled to share our column with our friend Rinat to tell us about a unique Hanukkah tradition involving women. 

Not Your Bubbe’s Latkes

Whether you switch up your latke ingredients, toppings or both, you can have lots of oily goodness without getting bored.

A 1944 Hanukkah Message to America

Eighty-one years ago, while America was at war and millions of Jews were being slaughtered, the rabbi of the Washington Hebrew Congregation delivered a Hanukkah message that resonates to this day.

Rosner’s Domain | The Psychology of Accepting Reality

Israelis expected the war would end when Hamas is eradicated. They now have to face a different reality. After two years of blood, sweat and many tears, the enemy is still out there, lurking in the dark, waiting to fight another day.

A Prophet among the Rhinos

In this selection of essays, op-eds and speeches, the first piece written six months after his son’s murder, Pearl gives us words that are, yes, sometimes heartbreaking, but also funny, profound, scrappy, informative and strikingly prescient.

As We Wrestle

My hope is that we, too, embrace the kind of wrestling that leads to blessing.

More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.