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These days, Meir Panim volunteers are helping to cook the food and are packaging it for takeout, since dine-in is not an option yet. Photos courtesy of Meir Panim
June 3, 2020, 3:43 pm
Meir Panim Food Relief Provides a Lifeline During the Covid Crisis
The group’s global development director reflects on its work
By April Zion
Dr. Galia Barkai, left, Prof. Galia Rahav and Prof. Gili Regev-Yochay.
June 3, 2020, 3:33 pm
Three Real-life ‘Wonder Women’ Battling Covid-19 at Sheba Medical Center
By Ken Stephens
Designer Yoav Gati makes doodles out of discarded gloves. Courtesy of Yoav Gati/via JTA
June 3, 2020, 3:23 pm
How Tel Aviv Creatives Made Art Out of the Covid-19 Crisis
Designers, photographers, artists and storytellers have turned a crisis into an opportunity to delight and distract a socially distanced public.
By Karen Chernick
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow delivering a lecture at Bar Ilan University’s Azrieli School of Medicine. Photos courtesy of Tzohar
June 3, 2020, 2:59 pm
An Ethical Shoulder to Lean On
As the coronavirus crisis drags on, a prominent ethicist becomes the go-to person for doctors and others on a range of weighty issues
By Nathan Jeffay
Dr. Natalia Freund. Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv University
June 3, 2020, 2:47 pm
TAU Researchers Fighting Covid-19
U.S. patent for vaccine design and success in antibody-based therapies
By NJJN Staff
IDF soldiers delivering food to Israeli Arabs for Ramadan. According to polls, Israelis believe the coronavirus crisis has brought Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs closer together. Idf.il
June 3, 2020, 2:39 pm
Into the Brave New Post-Covid World
By Michele Chabin
Israeli students at the Orot Etzion school in Efrat wear protective face masks as they return to school in early May. Gershon Elinon/Flash90
June 3, 2020, 2:33 pm
A Reopening Riddled with Anxiety
Israelis caught between ‘letting society live’ and fear of moving too quickly to end the lockdown.
By Michele Chabin
Staff members at the Galilee Medical Center, a teaching hospital in Nahariya serving the western Galillee, monitor patient data at one of the center’s command-and-control posts. Roni Albert for the Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya
June 3, 2020, 2:16 pm
Spirit of Innovation Marks War Against Covid
Israeli hospitals teamed with the high-tech sector and the military to battle the virus.
By Doug Chandler
Contra Costa Jewish Day School students present a national anthem project together with students from the Arnon School in Ramat Gan. Courtesy of Contra Costa Jewish Day School
June 3, 2019, 12:36 pm
Getting to know you
For high school students near and far, ‘twinning’ programs help close the distance between American Jews and Israelis
By Michele Chabin
A spread at Zahav, Michael Solomonov’s James Beard award-winning restaurant in Philadelphia. Courtesy of Zahav/Alexandra Hawkins
June 3, 2019, 12:27 pm
Israeli food as the great connector, erasing borders and biases
The cuisine that binds
By miriam groner
Left, Fred Biermann of South Orange, a former member of the Haganah, also served in the IDF and the U.S. Army. Right, Fred Biermann in his IDF uniform circa 1951. Photo by Shira Vickar-Fox / Photo Courtesy Fred Biermann
June 3, 2019, 12:15 pm
Eyewitnesses to history
Profiles of residents in the Garden State who witnessed the formation of the Jewish state
By NJJN Staff
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