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Reuben Friedman (right) with his father, Brad Friedman (left) and a sibling during his March 19, 2020, Zoom bar mitzvah. (Photo/Courtesy Brad Friedman)
Posted inReligion

Coronavirus forces b’nai mitzvah ceremonies online

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 26, 2020March 27, 2020
Networking in the hallway at the Jewish Federations of North America's annual General Assembly in Los Angeles, Nov. 2017 (Photo/Courtesy JFNA)
Posted inU.S.

8 major national Jewish groups team up for pandemic response

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 26, 2020
Rabbi Ari Cartun's family having Shabbat dinner together, March 2020.
Posted inFirst Person

Virtual Judaism is being forced upon us. I’m determined to make the best of it.

Rabbi Ari Cartun by Rabbi Ari Cartun March 26, 2020March 27, 2020
Rebecca Calahan Klein of Lafayette held a neighborhood drive for masks, gloves, toilet paper and non-perishable food outside her home over the weekend. (REBECCA CALAHAN KLEIN)
Posted inHealth

Jewish senior facilities seek masks, other protective supplies

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 25, 2020April 2, 2020
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Posted inU.S.

Forced to leave school, Jewish college students unite in Zoom University Hillel

by Deanna Schwartz March 25, 2020March 25, 2020
A virtual shiva call for Sophi Jacobs (bottom right), whose father died March 19. (FRAIDY ABER)
Posted inBay Area

Death during a pandemic: virtual shiva calls and funerals without mourners

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 25, 2020
Hinda Gilbert on her way home to San Francisco after a 14-day quarantine at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield. (MARLIN GILBERT)
Posted inBay Area

Home at last: Jewish S.F. resident ends 14-day quarantine at military base

by Gabriel Greschler March 25, 2020March 25, 2020
The ark doors at Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, Texas, mimic an ancient depiction of the Hebrew calendar. (Photo/Rabbi Neil Blumofe)
Posted inColumns

It could be easy to lose sense of time during the coronavirus pandemic. Jewish tradition has an antidote for that.

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick March 25, 2020March 25, 2020
Sam Buckwalter requested a loan from Hebrew Free Loan after being laid off from his job at a Japanese restaurant in San Francisco early in the pandemic.
Posted inNews

Hebrew Free Loan ‘inundated’ with $1 million in loan requests

by Gabriel Greschler March 24, 2020March 24, 2020
Writer couple Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman (ANDY FREEBERG)
Posted inFood

Prominent Berkeley writer’s coronavirus relief effort helps restaurants and hospital workers

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 24, 2020March 25, 2020

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