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Empty entrance to the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, which closed its facility in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo/Courtesy OFJCC)
Posted inBay Area

JCCs close, hundreds furloughed as Bay Area Jewish orgs feel weight of coronavirus

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 30, 2020March 31, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his residence in Jerusalem, Feb. 28, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Gali Tibbon-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Netanyahu, now in self-quarantine, limits gatherings to 2 people

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA March 30, 2020
Doreen Alper (center, in the matzah apron) sometimes has 60 or more people at her seders, such as this one in 2015. This year, she's facing the prospect of a much smaller gathering. (EDWARD LECHTZIN)
Posted inReligion

How Bay Area Jews are planning to have meaningful seders with everyone stuck at home

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 30, 2020March 30, 2020
Dr. Ronn Berrol, an emergency room doctor in Oakland. (COURTESY BERROL)
Posted inBay Area

‘Called to serve’: Jewish doctors, nurses report in from the front lines

by Gabriel Greschler March 27, 2020March 27, 2020
Dr. David Cornfield (center) with Dr. Waldo Concepcion, director of pediatric kidney transplantation, and Dr. Douglas Sidell, pediatric ear, nose and throat surgeon, in front of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. (AMY BROOKS)
Posted inHealth

‘It’s not the Bubonic Plague’: Stanford pediatrician at cutting edge of Covid-19 research, treatment

by Sue Fishkoff March 27, 2020March 30, 2020
Yuri Milner (left) and Mark Zuckerberg at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Mountain View, November 2019. (Photo/JTA-Steve Jennings/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Local tech titan Yuri Milner donates $3 million to Israel’s virus response

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 27, 2020
The coronavirus and K Street in Washington, D.C., home to many political lobbying groups. (JTA MONTAGE/GETTY)
Posted inU.S.

In a pandemic, pro-Israel lobbies move into the home office

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 27, 2020March 27, 2020
Volunteers from Jewish Family and Children's Services get ready to deliver groceries. (Photo/Courtesy JFCS)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

From groceries to phone banking, volunteers step up during coronavirus outbreak

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 26, 2020
Volunteers Ronna Voorsanger (left) and Fanny Stein at the Rodef Sholom gift shop in San Rafael. (LIZ HARRIS)
Posted inPassover

With Passover approaching, temple gift shops pick up where now-closed Judaica stores left off

by Liz Harris March 26, 2020
A cyclist protecting himself from the coronavirus passes in front of a synagogue in Turin, Italy, March 18, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Stefano Guidi-Getty)
Posted inWorld, News

For Italian Jews, the ‘smell of death’ is all around

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA March 26, 2020

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