Social distancing

COVID-19: When your pandemic outdoor minyan folds up - opinion

While obviously ecstatic that COVID has been tamed, I’m saddened that this minyan – a positive outgrowth of the plague – is being shut down.

AN OUTDOOR minyan prays in Modi’in, September 2020.
MANHI IS working to make Zoom teaching more interesting and effective.

The end of COVID and the decline of Zoom - opinion

 Employees of Israeli company ParaSonic, demonstrate using a prototype of the company's hand-held device that kills lice and their eggs, in Tel Aviv, Israel October 22, 2018.

Israel will probably never be ahead of head lice, Israeli research shows - exclusive

 Rabbi Susan Abramson (left) and Cantorial Soloist Ben Silver of Temple Shalom Emeth in Burlington, Mass. lead a prerecorded Friday night service on Jan. 7, 2022.

US synagogues face tough COVID questions (again) as Omicron surges


BGU researchers develop model to optimize COVID battle strategy

BGU researchers found that prioritizing vaccination for the elderly while issuing social distancing measures for adults was generally most effective.

 Third vaccine doses being administered at the Amigdor Retirement Residence by Magen David Adom (MDA), Jerusalem, August 5, 2021.

COVID-19: Political alignments of face masks, social distancing - opinion

COVID-19 didn’t make us anxious. We did, and we masked our troubles with polarizing politics

THE PRO-CHOICE and pro-life camps have traded places, with liberals championing the sanctity of life, turning masking into an article of faith, a liberal veil.

What will it take for me to go back to synagogue? - opinion

Are we just lazy or fearful of becoming sick? Or have we become dependent on the safety and security of keeping close to home?

FITZGERALD HEBREW Congregation Synagogue building, Fitzgerald, Georgia; dedicated on June 25, 1942.

Cruise ship docks in Haifa for the first time since start of pandemic

The arrival of the Royal Caribbean ship makes it the first arrival of a cruise ship in Israel since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Royal Caribbean cruise

Coronavirus: Oregon mulls permanent face mask, social distancing rules

Oregon is considered to have some of the strictest COVID-19 regulations in the US.

COVID-19 face mask

Students in AZ, teachers in CA: Jewish high school plans post-COVID future

Starting this fall, students in Arizona will connect with their Southern California teachers and classmates through video, and will gather at a site to be determined.

Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles invested in remote learning technology during the pandemic. In the fall, students located in Arizona will begin to attend Shalhevet classes via video. (Tushar Dwivedi)

There is no one-size-fits-all for social distancing in schools - study

Schools can relax physical distancing requirements without negatively impacting the safety of students or staff, so long as they adhere to masking mandates.

A school classroom is seen empty in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem.

Israelis work longer hours than OECD average, but work more from home

During Israel's first and second closures, women bore the brunt of the economic impact, but more women than men worked from home.

A businessperson working at his computer (Illustrative)

Coronavirus leads Israel's tech workers away from the city

Residents of Israel's expensive and congested central region are finding that the rise of working from home makes the advantages of city life less appealing.

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While COVID-19 surges, Israel has zero cases of influenza, RSV

Flu season in Israel usually starts in November.

Pre-filled M-001 universal flu vaccine syringes

Amid COVID-19, new art exhibit 'Zooms in' on young lives

The exhibition name has a double meaning, hinting at the deeper gaze into the lives of the youth that the exhibition depicts, while also referencing the Zoom video conferences.

A PHOTOGRAPH taken by Holon student Yuval Elhasid.