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How do you shelter from coronavirus when you don’t have a home?

How do you shelter from coronavirus when you don’t have a home?

Israel has put in place emergency regulations prohibiting anyone from venturing more than 100 meters from their houses, but there are those who have no… Read More ›

After week-long lockdown, some Bnei Brak restrictions to be eased

After week-long lockdown, some Bnei Brak restrictions to be eased

Residents of ultra-Orthodox town will be allowed to leave for work or other essential matters, as rest of country emerges from four-days of banned travel… Read More ›

Israel’s Defense Minister And Senior Health Officials Criticize Israel’s Sweeping Lockdown, Call For More Tests

Israel’s Defense Minister And Senior Health Officials Criticize Israel’s Sweeping Lockdown, Call For More Tests

JERUSALEM — Senior officials in Israel continue to criticize the Health Ministry’s policy of imposing sweeping isolation on the entire country while minimizing the importance… Read More ›

3 nurses in the UK forced to wear trash bags instead of real protective gear have tested positive for the coronavirus

3 nurses in the UK forced to wear trash bags instead of real protective gear have tested positive for the coronavirus

  Three UK nurses forced to wear bin bags because of a lack of protective equipment for front-line medical workers during the coronavirus crisis have… Read More ›

Clinton scandal whistleblower Linda Tripp dies at age 70

Clinton scandal whistleblower Linda Tripp dies at age 70

The Daily Mail in Britain cited a longtime close friend, Diane Spreadbury, as saying Tripp succumbed to a brief battle with pancreatic cancer.   Linda… Read More ›

Alone at Passover, but not lonely

Alone at Passover, but not lonely

Opinion: Coronavirus doesn’t only force us to hunker down at home and stock up on toilet paper, it exposes issues we have long suppressed in… Read More ›

With 149,000 cases, New York state becomes world’s top coronavirus hotspot

With 149,000 cases, New York state becomes world’s top coronavirus hotspot

State now has more patients than any country outside the America; Governor Cuomo says epidemic appears to be stabilizing: ‘We are flattening the curve’  … Read More ›

Some Doctors Moving Away From Ventilators For Virus Patients

Some Doctors Moving Away From Ventilators For Virus Patients

  NEW YORK (AP) — As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors are moving away… Read More ›

WHO defends coronavirus response after Trump criticism

WHO defends coronavirus response after Trump criticism

The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday defended the organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, at one point directly responding to criticisms leveled… Read More ›

Coronavirus Passover: Israel under lockdown, 65 people dead

Coronavirus Passover: Israel under lockdown, 65 people dead

149 in serious condition, 117 intubated * Israel loses 37-year-old to the disease   It’s the holiday of freedom and the State of Israel is… Read More ›

Criticism of Haredi coronavirus conduct is not racism

Criticism of Haredi coronavirus conduct is not racism

Opinion: Criticism of the ultra-Orthodox is based on concrete facts that can no longer be ignored; comparing this to anti-Semitism is pure demagogy Veteran TV… Read More ›

NYC virus deaths exceed 4,000, topping toll for 9/11 attacks

NYC virus deaths exceed 4,000, topping toll for 9/11 attacks

NY state records 731 new deaths, its biggest one-day jump yet, for a total of nearly 5,500; number of patients requiring breathing tubes drops  … Read More ›

Modeling Coronavirus: ‘Uncertainty Is The Only Certainty’

Modeling Coronavirus: ‘Uncertainty Is The Only Certainty’

  SEATTLE (AP) — A statistical model cited by the White House generated a slightly less grim figure Monday for a first wave of deaths… Read More ›

‘I can’t take it back’: Trump’s Navy secretary resigns and apologizes after he described a fired carrier captain as ‘too naïve or too stupid’

‘I can’t take it back’: Trump’s Navy secretary resigns and apologizes after he described a fired carrier captain as ‘too naïve or too stupid’

  Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly has resigned, CNN and Politico reported on Tuesday. Modly’s offer to step down came a day after he visited the USS Theodore Roosevelt… Read More ›

Coronavirus: Netanyahu announces nationwide lockdown until Friday

Coronavirus: Netanyahu announces nationwide lockdown until Friday

Israel’s coronavirus death toll reaches 58, cases climb to 8,904.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday evening announced tough new restrictions on public movement,… Read More ›

In a coronavirus world, remember those who need help

In a coronavirus world, remember those who need help

Opinion: This widespread sense of helplessness is all too familiar to Israel’s citizens with autism who feel isolated, scared and uncertain on a daily basis,… Read More ›

As US starts to see signs of hope, virus crisis escalates alarmingly in UK

As US starts to see signs of hope, virus crisis escalates alarmingly in UK

New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces the first, faint signs outbreak there might be near its peak, but Britain sees deaths climb and PM Johnson… Read More ›

Pelosi Seeking At Least $1 Trillion For Next Virus Bill

Pelosi Seeking At Least $1 Trillion For Next Virus Bill

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi is telling House Democrats another $1 trillion is needed for the next coronavirus rescue package. Pelosi told Democrats… Read More ›

How did coronavirus break out? Theories abound as researchers race to solve genetic detective story

How did coronavirus break out? Theories abound as researchers race to solve genetic detective story

A vacuum of knowledge about the origins of the new coronavirus ravaging the world has provided fertile ground for all manner of theories — from… Read More ›

Trump voices hope for ‘leveling-off’ of coronavirus in US hot spots

Trump voices hope for ‘leveling-off’ of coronavirus in US hot spots

Most states have ordered residents to stay home except for essential trips to slow the spread of the virus in the United States.   The… Read More ›