How risky are High Holiday activities during COVID-19?
By Shira Hanau
When Passover arrived just a few weeks after the pandemic set in earlier this year, it was clear that seders with families...
VIDEO: Is it OK to carpool if everyone is wearing a mask?
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Twelve-year-old Ruby was getting upset that many people — including other kids — are not wearing masks. Rather than continue to fume, she decided...
Jewish lives lost to the coronavirus
Chabad.org is working on a project to record and recall every member of the Jewish community who has perished during this plague.
Yaakov Abayev ●...
‘A vaccine is not the be all or end all’
Q & A With Dr. Naor Bar-Zeev
When will we have a vaccine for COVID-19? How effective will it be? Naor Bar-Zeev, an associate professor...
7 ways to stay connected to Judaism
Seniors are one of the most susceptible groups to COVID-19. According to the CDC, the older the adult, the higher the risk for severe...
Deluged by pandemic needs, Israeli doctors get help from unlikely source: robots
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By Larry Luxner
JERUSALEM — Orthopedic surgeons at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus recently welcomed a newcomer to their team.
She’s incredibly efficient, never...
Bridging Generations During Social Isolation
By Rabbi Joshua Stanton, Hedy Peyser, MSW and Andy Siegel, MHA
We are living through a pandemic of biblical proportions. It is causing a secondary...
Kids need more outdoor time? Get it at night with a backyard campout
School is out and summer is here — but your kids have already been spending their days at home since March, thanks to the...
Seniors spend quarantine putting memories on paper
During quarantine, people have had a lot more free time, and a lot more time to think.
Some members of Congregation Beth El of Montgomery...
In hospice, big decisions have to be made quickly
As chaplains, Rabbi Yaffa-Shira Sultan and the Rev. Deb Vaughn offer spiritual and emotional care to those in JSSA Hospice and their families.
For them,...