(JTA) — Nearly 5% of all coronavirus-related deaths in the United Kingdom are of Jewish people, who make up just 0.3% of the country’s population, The Jewish News of London reported.
According to the paper’s report Thursday, at least 22 Jewish families have lost loved ones to the disease, which... Continue Reading ⇒
At a time when Jewish mourning practices are nearly impossible to observe, the CCJN and JTA are creating space to mourn Jews who have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic and COVID-19 disease.
OBIE-Award winning film (“Desperately Seeking Susan”) and stage actor Mark Blum died today, March 26.
(JTA) — Andre Touboul, a rabbi affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement who led one of France’s most prestigious high schools, has died of the coronavirus in Paris. He was 64.
Touboul led Beth Hanna, a Jewish institution of some 1,500 students whose high school was ranked the... Continue Reading ⇒
WASHINGTON – The seven-week U.S. election for the World Zionist Congress garnered a record-breaking number of more than 123,000 votes. That is more than double the turnout in 2015 – the last such election – and the highest number of votes since elections were first held for the entire American... Continue Reading ⇒
(JTA) — Michele Sciama, a former secretary-general of the Jewish Community of Milan — the city’s local Jewish communal life organization — has died of the Covid-19 coronavirus.
Sciama, known to his friends and family as Micky, was 79 when he died Monday morning. He is survived by his wife,... Continue Reading ⇒
NEW YORK (JTA) — Like the rest of the world, the Jewish world is reeling as the novel coronavirus spreads. We’ll be tracking the latest developments here.
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(JTA) — Answering criticism of a float that depicted Holocaust victims dancing with Nazis alongside crematoria, the Spanish town that hosted the parade said the display was allowed only because its creators had described it as a form of commemoration.
(JTA) — At a carnival procession in Spain, participants dressed like Nazis and Jewish concentration camp prisoners while dancing next to a float evoking crematoria.
The Israeli Embassy in Madrid on Tuesday protested the display this weekend at the annual carnival procession in Campo de Criptana, a town situated about... Continue Reading ⇒
