Posts Tagged: COVID-19
Israelis Protest Against Government Response to Coronavirus
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday in Tel Aviv, angered by what they say has been an inept government response to the economic hits they...
Dubai Announces New Coronavirus Economic Support Worth Over $400 Million
Dubai has announced a new package worth 1.5 billion dirhams ($408 million) to help the economy cope with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the...
Sheba Medical Center Names Intel Winner of Covid-19 Data Challenge
CTech - Israel’s Sheba Medical Center has named Intel’s Analytics AI group as the winner of its “Corona Data Challenge” in a search for Covid-19...
Israel Bonds Raises Goal, Rethinks High-Holiday Appeal in Response to Pandemic
Israel Bonds is on track to increase its bond sales sharply this calendar year to help the Jewish state deal with the fiscal fallout of...
US Coronavirus Deaths Top 100,000 as Country Reopens
The novel coronavirus has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States, according to a Reuters tally on Wednesday, even as the slowdown in deaths encouraged...
Coronavirus Aid: A Bridge to Peace
JNS.org - In the age of coronavirus, one would think that the world’s governments would come together to truly put people, and not power, first. Last Tuesday,...
Is There a Right to In-Person Religious Services During a Pandemic?
JNS.org - Is there a point when attempts by the government to keep us safe go too far? When protesters stormed state capitals in Michigan and...
Orthodox Jews Are Half of Covid-19 Plasma Donors, Doctor Tells New York Times
The New York Times is drawing praise for an article highlighting the frequency of plasma donation in the Orthodox Jewish community. The plasma -- a blood...
Lag B’Omer Amid COVID-19: An Invitation to Civility
Some 2,000 years ago, according to the Talmud, “Rabbi Akiva had twelve thousand pairs of students in an area of land that stretched from Gevat...
OurCrowd to Back Israeli Covid-19 Vaccine Company in $12 Million Round
CTech - Jerusalem-based equity crowdfunding company OurCrowd will lead a $12 million investment round for newly formed Covid-19 vaccine company MigVax, the company announced in...
‘Truly Ugly,’ ‘Blood Libel’: Outrage Mounts at Media Blaming Religious Jews, Rabbis for Covid-19
Concern is rising in the Jewish community that The New York Times is falsely blaming religious Jews for the spread of the novel coronavirus. The Times...
Coronavirus, Blacks, and Black-Hats — a Classic New York Times Double Standard
Let’s take a look at a side-by-side comparison of two New York Times news articles about communities hard-hit by the novel coronavirus. The first example blames...
New York Times Backs Cellphones to Fight Virus Everywhere Except Israel
A New York Times news article from Israel is faulting Prime Minister Netanyahu for combating the coronavirus with measures similar to those the Times itself,...
The Long-Term Political Fallout of Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic, which is by definition egalitarian in the extreme and recognizes no physical or social borders, could cause complete breakdowns in already weak...
