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UK-Covid-19-Inquiry
February 25, 2025, 10:49 am
OPINION: Unpacking the unique impact of Covid-19 on the Jewish community
The JLC has contributed to the UK’s official national inquiry
By Russell Langer
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at an event with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in New York on July 25, 2023. (Jackie Hajdenberg)
July 27, 2023, 2:09 pm
RFK Jr. on the people to blame for COVID: ‘We know who they were and they weren’t Jewish’
Kennedy was responding to mounting backlash against his claim that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to avoid Jews and Chinese people.
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
May 31, 2023, 9:38 am
Israeli health ministry calls out Elon Musk for sharing ‘fake news’ on COVID-19
Musk had replied to a tweet from Zero Hedge, claiming Israeli data showed “zero young healthy individuals died of COVID-19.”
By Gabe Friedman (JTA)
Sucharit Bhakdi, a microbiologist and prominent anti-vaccine activist, in Schleswig-Holstein, Plön, Germany, May 2023. (Christian Charisius/dpa via Getty)
May 25, 2023, 8:44 am
German court acquits COVID denier who compared Israel to Nazi Germany
Sucharit Bhakdi, 74, a well-known critic of Germany’s pandemic restrictions, said that the Jews had learned evil under Hitler and are utilising it in Israel to spread more evil.
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Israel Tech: A PLANETech delegation at the Cop27 climate conference in November
May 3, 2023, 11:28 am
Startup nation at 75: creating something out of nothing
Israel boasts a tech scene that older and larger countries can only dream of, writes Charlotte Henry
By Charlotte Henry
Jewish-Care-Business-Breakfast-commitee-with-guest-speaker-Dame-Kate-Bingham-DBE-Chair-Jonathan-Zenios-and-CEO-Daniel-Carmel-Brown
March 11, 2023, 11:56 am
Jewish Care raises more than £45k at business breakfast
Guest speaker Dame Kate Bingham shared her experiences chairing the government's Covid-19 vaccine task force.
By Michelle Rosenberg
The trial scene in The Merchant of Venice
January 26, 2023, 12:03 pm
OPINION: A timeline of prejudice, from Shylock to the Shoah
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's Farayi Mungazi on why the long-lasting impact of antisemitic tropes in Merchant of Venice remain dangerously relevant today.
By Farayi Mungazi
Acclaimed mental health campaigner and author Jonny Benjamin speaks to students at JFS (Jewish News)
April 28, 2022, 4:03 pm
Surge in young Jewish people seeking mental health support
Jami, the mental health service for the Jewish community, reports experiencing an unprecedented demand from young adults seeking assistance.
By Jenni Frazer
Women’s Health Event with CHANA, a Jewish charity focusing on fertility support, and the Interlink Foundation (Jewish News)
April 20, 2022, 12:13 pm
Medics and strictly Orthodox women discuss vaccine hesitancy at Women’s Health Event
Dr Veronique Berman from CHANA reassured the audience that there was “no evidence to suggest that Covid-19 vaccines affect fertility”.
By Jewish News Reporter
Dr Sharon Raymond, director of the Crisis Rescue Foundation, previously the Covid Crisis Rescue Foundation (Jewish News)
April 13, 2022, 2:58 pm
Doctor launches programme for trainee Ukrainian medics
Sharon Raymond, GP and director of the Crisis Rescue Foundation, has signed up around 250 experienced medics, professors and academics.
By Jenni Frazer
A Jewish Ukrainian immigrant holds her baby after disembarking from an airplane at Ben Gurion international airport, 6 March 2022. Credit: ilia Yefimovich/dpa/Alamy Live News
April 4, 2022, 6:30 pm
OPINION: Israel keeps balance on a diplomatic tightrope
Israel is – not for the first time – caught between a rock and a hard place, trying to steer mediation between Russia and Ukraine.
Sir Lloyd Dorfman speaks at Never to Forget Covid-19 memorial concert at St Paul's Cathedral, 23 March 2022
March 29, 2022, 1:02 pm
British entrepreneur stresses interfaith inclusivity at Covid memorial concert
Sir Lloyd Dorfman expresses pride in his commitment to St Paul’s Cathedral’s Remember Me online memorial book
By Jewish News Reporter
Protester wearing yellow stars during the 'Unite for Freedom' anti-lockdown and anti-vaccines protest during final stage of the national lockdown. Credit: Mario Mitsis/WENN
February 15, 2022, 1:18 pm
Dortmund is latest German city to ban yellow stars at COVID protests
'Anyone who displays the Jewish star in this way is trivialising  the planned murder of millions of Jews by National Socialist Germany and endangering public peace'
By JTA
A medical worker prepares a vaccine against the COVID-19 at a municipality vaccine center in Tel Aviv, Israel, Dec. 31, 2020. (Gideon Markowicz/JINI via Xinhua)
January 31, 2022, 10:48 am
Israeli Covid expert panel recommends expanding 4th vaccine to all adults over 18
Health Ministry announced the preliminary results of a study which showed the fourth vaccine tripled protection against serious illness and doubled protection against Omicron
By JTA
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
October 18, 2021, 5:16 pm
Colin Powell, who brokered the Middle East ‘road map’ to peace, dies at 84
First black US National Security Adviser, Chief of Staff and Secretary of State, remembered fondly for his ability to speak Yiddish as a second language and support for Israel
By JTA
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