Posts Tagged: coronavirus Jews
The Israeli Security Establishment Helped Beat Coronavirus — and Is Ready for Future Challenges
As Israel gradually lifts the restrictions it imposed to protect public health amid the coronavirus pandemic, concerns remain over the threat of a second wave...
What the Coronavirus Reveals About China
The coronavirus is not the first pandemic to be exported from China to the rest of the world. China’s leadership, which is known for the...
College Student Works Tirelessly to Help Others During Coronavirus
JNS.org - Most weeks, Kaila Zimmerman-Moscovitch is busy juggling a full load of college classes and two part-time jobs. It’s a schedule that doesn’t allow...
Suddenly, Our Jewish Temples Are Shaking
JNS.org - For centuries, Jewish life revolved around a glorious piece of real estate -- the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Jewish holidays, holy rituals, sacrifices,...
Prayer in the Time of Coronavirus
The great advantage of having to pray alone during this period of lockdown is that one can actually take the time to pay attention to...
COVID-19: Let’s Prove Hobbes Wrong
Earlier this week, I stumbled across an absolutely remarkable article in The Guardian: “The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were...
Turkey Won’t Recover Quickly From the Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has deepened fundamental imbalances in the Turkish economy, making a post-crisis freefall quite likely. However, as far as Turkey’s difficult foreign policy...
How the IDF Mobilized Against COVID-19
JNS.org - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) elite naval commando unit, Shayetet 13, has been making non-stop deliveries of oxygen cylinders to civilian care facilities...
Our Response to Coronavirus Must Be Selflessness Toward Others
One of the 17th century’s greatest intellectual celebrities was Sir Isaac Newton, a central figure of what we now refer to as the Scientific Revolution,...
Fighting COVID-19, Conspiracy Theories, and Antisemitism
It is a story that dates back centuries. A crisis occurs and conspiracy theories emerge to offer one-size-fits-all explanations. More often than not, Jews are...
The Very Strong Silver Lining of COVID-19
Coronavirus has shaken up the world to an extent not experienced since World War II. In an era when the word unprecedented is used constantly,...
If You Hate Flying Now, Just Wait
JNS.org - Everyone’s got an opinion on what the post-corona world will look like. What will the economy look like? Which businesses will remain and...
For Israel, a Country With No History of Pandemics, Improvisation Is Key
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina opens with the well-known sentence, “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Applying this logic...
Pandemic Sets the Stage for a Western-Asian Ideological Contest
As the scale of the coronavirus pandemic grew more and more apparent, apocalyptic scenarios quickly multiplied. Many expected the world to undergo structural changes primarily...
The Problem with Trump and Henry Ford’s ‘Good Bloodlines’
If You Want to Criticize Israel, First Support Its Right to Exist
Keeping the Peacekeeping: Why Withdrawing US Troops From Sinai Is a Dangerous Idea
Orthodox Jews Arrested in Argentina for Alleged Violations of Coronavirus Rules at Wedding Ceremony
Abbas’ Empty Threats Come Again