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Students at Nishmat in Jerusalem wear masks and are separated by Plexiglas barriers to protect against the coronavirus.

As colleges go virtual, students instead are heading to Israel on gap year programs

(JTA) — Hadara Bilsky thought she’d spend her first semester of college making friends in her dorm, having discussions with professors and students in class, and attending Shabbat services at … more

Josefin Dolsten | 5/21/20

‘The entire system got confused’: Israeli schools reopen, but many parents aren’t sending their kids back

JERUSALEM (JTA) — On the first day that Israel’s schools reopened nine weeks after closing to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Kalanit Taub’s 8-year-old daughter stayed home. As a … more

Sam Sokol | 5/14/20

We can’t take the bond between American and Israeli Jews for granted

Ambassador Dani Dayan, consul general of Israel in New York, last week shared a short message with JTA readers ahead of Yom Ha’Zikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut … more

AMBASSADOR DANI DAYAN | 4/30/20

A view of orthodox jewish people during Passover in Williamsburg in Brooklyn New York USA during coronavirus pandemic on April 11, 2020. (Photo by John Nacion/NurPhoto)

Mayor de Blasio is no enemy of Orthodox Jews. But others are weaponizing the coronavirus to vilify our community.

NEW YORK (JTA) — Among the most disturbing spectacles over the months since the coronavirus was unleashed on the world have been the attacks on haredi Orthodox Jews in both Israel and the United … more

Rabbi Avi Shafran | 4/30/20

Israel will be under lockdown for Memorial and Independence Days

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israel will go into emergency lockdown on the country’s Memorial and Independence days in an effort to tamp down the coronavirus crisis, raising an outcry from bereaved … more

Marcy Oster | 4/22/20

Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day torch-lighting at Yad Vashem held without audience

JERUSALEM (JTA) – The coronavirus couldn’t dim the annual torch-lighting ceremony in Israel for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah. In a … more

MARCY OSTER | 4/20/20

Netanyahu and Gantz sign agreement for ‘national emergency government’

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz signed a deal Monday [April 20] to form a “national emergency government” that keeps … more

MARCY OSTER | 4/20/20

Netanyahu limits gatherings to 2 people

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Gatherings of Israelis are limited to two people except nuclear family members living in the same home, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday [March 30] … more

MARCY OSTER | 4/5/20

1 in 3 residents of Israeli city Bnei Brak tested for coronavirus are positive

JERUSALEM (JTA) — One in three residents, or 34 percent, of the mostly haredi Orthodox city of Bnei Brak in central Israel who have been tested for the coronavirus are positive. The high … more

Marcy Oster | 4/1/20

Israel’s defense establishment is manufacturing ventilators

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s defense establishment has stopped making missiles and started manufacturing ventilators. The assembly line building the Ventway Sparrow ventilator model was set … more

Marcy Oster | 4/1/20