Every Passover, we strive to experience Egypt in our own lives. This year, that wasn’t hard. My husband and I share the names of people we personally know who have passed … more

Three-hundred-fifty physicians self-identified as shomrei Torah and mitzvot have signed a statement imploring “all fellow Jews to continue strict adherence to isolation guidelines WITHOUT … more

Among the many signs of summer that the coronavirus pandemic is silencing: the annual parade that draws tens of thousands of supporters of Israel to Manhattans’s Fifth Avenue. “Its … more

Simmy Cohen has not chanted much from the Torah since his bar mitzvah. During the current lockdown, when he’s not working at his marketing job from his home in Queens, he … more

Dating back to the International Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in 2001, many of the human-rights organizations that the public turns to for objective data have increasingly … more

What is our duty to those confined in places where the coronavirus crisis is a threat? Efforts to protect residents of facilities that serve the elderly have gained a great deal of attention. Yet … more

Israel on Sunday began easing some of the restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, making allowances for prayer quorums and allowing many businesses to reopen. The … more

Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Noach Dear was niftar on Sunday morning. The 66-year-old jurist, who was a member of the New York City Council from 1983 to 2001, was a victim of the coronavirus, … more

Prayer at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City will be banned during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan in order to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, Muslim clerics said on … more

As of Tuesday morning, 11,868 Israelis have tested positive for coronavirus, which has so far killed 118 people in the country. According to the country’s Health Ministry, 181 patients are … more