Posts Tagged: coronavirus response
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...
Why Israel Will Beat COVID-19
Sitting in the tiny, closet-like office, we could barely move the chairs around to get the four of us into the cramped space. There was...
Coronavirus and the Arab Culture of Secrecy
Misinformation is a pillar of governance in most Arab regimes. Anyone trying to follow current events in the Arab world could be misled into believing the...
Coronavirus Threatens to Drive Wedge Into US-Gulf Relations
The coronavirus crisis is changing the political landscape of the Middle East, as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and militants in countries like Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon...
Despite COVID-19, the Israeli Economy Will Continue to Thrive
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics reported that Israel’s economy grew by 3.3% in 2019. While this is slightly lower than...
Judaism’s Priorities During Coronavirus and Other Times
My nephew Dov, a philosopher, scholar, and rabbi of YAKAR Jerusalem, sent me an essay he recently published entitled “On Social Distancing and Deontology.” It...
Don’t Trust Putin’s Lies on Coronavirus
The coronavirus has caused a three-dimensional crisis in Russia: a health crisis, an economic crisis, and a personal crisis for President Vladimir Putin. The false...
What We Can Learn From COVID-19: ‘Things’ Don’t Always Make Us Happy
Elective surgery in most hospitals has been eliminated. Pollution is way down in Los Angeles and other places in the world, because people are not...
Where Are Orthodox Leaders on Unacceptable Coronavirus Behavior?
To be perfectly frank, until earlier this week, I had never heard the name Rabbi Chaim Mertz. And truthfully, nor would I have heard of...
Global Antisemitism Rises as Pandemic Spreads
The leading BDS news for April was the movement’s attack on Israel’s response to the global coronavirus pandemic. Following the approach of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, leading...
Recovering From COVID-19 Gives a New Meaning to Independence
JNS.org - I caught coronavirus in the United States, of all places -- far from Israel and my family. A few days after Purim, I...
