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Entrance to the Home of Eternity cemetery in Oakland. (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inNews

Sinai funeral home makes livestreaming standard at graveside services

by Gabriel Greschler March 2, 2021March 2, 2021
A health worker tests a man for the coronavirus at a health center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 16, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Abed Rahim Khatib-Flash90)
Posted inIsrael

Israel to start vaccinating West Bank Palestinians who work in Israel

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA March 2, 2021March 2, 2021
A syringe and a bottle reading "Covid-19 Vaccine" next to the Pfizer company logo in Jerusalem on December 10, 2020.
(Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Posted inNews

Israel’s plan to deliver vaccines to Palestinians is on hold

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA March 1, 2021
Dr. Benjamin Pinsky is the director of Stanford Medicine’s Clinical Virology Laboratory. (Photo/Steve Fisch)
Posted inNews

Q&A: This Stanford doc hunts down Covid-19 variants in California

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 12, 2021February 13, 2021
Thousands of haredi Orthodox Jews attend a funeral procession in Jerusalem for Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, the head of the Brisk Yeshiva, Jan. 31, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Menahem Kahana-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

In Israel, haredi Orthodox Jews wield enormous political power. Could that change because of Covid?

by Sam Sokol and JTA February 3, 2021
Ira Kurtz, executive director of Rhoda Goldman Plaza in San Francisco, gets his vaccination. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inNews

Nursing homes get vaccine, others navigate byzantine system

by Gabriel Greschler January 28, 2021February 2, 2021
How many yahrzeit candles is enough?
Posted inJewish Life

Buy yahrzeit candles in bulk? And so it goes these pandemic days

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz January 27, 2021
The El Al departure counter at Ben Gurion International Airport, Feb. 27, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Jack Guez-AFP via Getty)
Posted inNews

Israel closes its borders, including for citizens and immigrants, in effort to curb Covid-19

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA January 25, 2021
Entrance to San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inNews

Staff at SF senior home battle Covid as new cases continue to appear

by Gabriel Greschler January 22, 2021January 23, 2021
Vanessa Munoz, 22, is
a certified nursing assistant at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living.
Posted inNews

‘We want to be here to take care of them’: On the front lines inside S.F.’s largest Jewish senior home

by Sue Fishkoff January 20, 2021January 20, 2021

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