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‘Panellists Dr Ellie Cannon, Dr Leonora Weil, Dr Charlotte Benjamin and Dr Rabbi Raphael Zarum get questioned by LJF Trustee Esther Offenberg on why young adults should take the Covid-19 vaccination’
April 6, 2021, 2:37 pm
Impact of vaccines the focus of seminar with three leading Jewish GPs
Doctors Ellie Cannon, Leonora Weil and Charlotte Benjamin quizzed by young Jews, with everything from the jab's effect on fertility to getting ill from taking it discussed
By Jenni Frazer
IsraAid is a non-profit organisation helping the world's crisis hotspots
March 11, 2021, 4:19 pm
Meet the Brit sharing Israel’s vax skills in the developing world
IsraAID's Tamar Kosky Lazarus is directing a team helping in crisis and post-crisis spots
By Nathan Jeffay
Children with special needs are four times more vulnerable to the pandemic
February 24, 2021, 2:51 pm
Jewish charity welcomes vaccine invite for people with learning disabilities
Weeks after Jewish News raised the alarm on the issue, the government announces that 150,000 vulnerable people will get the option of a vaccine
By Jewish News Reporter
A nurse holds a phial containing the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19.
February 17, 2021, 9:23 am
UK-Israeli scientist’s algorithm can predict Covid outbreaks 17 days in advance
Prof. Michael Edelstein's complex technology involves the monitoring of Google searches to forecast where and when coronavirus cases will flare up more than two weeks in advance
By Ellie Jacobs
Coronavirus particle (Credit: Felipe Esquivel Reed, CC BY-SA 4.0, www.commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87846813)
May 4, 2020, 2:58 pm
Jewish group backs inquiry into ‘disproportionate impact’ of virus on minorities
JCORE said it was 'concerned' that death rates among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities is higher than the national average
By Jewish News Reporter
Google maps screenshot of the St John's Wood synagogue
March 12, 2020, 12:04 pm
Synagogue member ‘seriously ill’ with coronavirus
St John's Wood shul says there is 'no need for members to self-isolate' after congregant was last on the premises on 29 February
By Jewish News Reporter
February 27, 2020, 11:06 am
Jewish schools on coronavirus alert
Advice from Public Health England issued to families following half-term holidays as other communal groups prepare to issue guidance
By Jewish News Reporter
September 3, 2019, 10:21 am
Orthodox vaccination now SEVEN times below average
Sharp drops in inoculations against measles, mumps and rubella in five-year-olds recorded in Hackney and Haringey, as health workers urge double jabs for Charedim
By Jewish News Reporter
November 7, 2018, 2:22 pm
Charedi leaders in UK urge families to get the jab amid measles outbreak
In Stamford Hill, medics urge Orthodox families to get inoculated - and not to send children with sick family members to school
November 22, 2016, 11:46 am
Jewish schools in Barnet warned over dysentery outbreak
Public health England advised the Jewish community to be careful after a 'cluster' of cases of the infection were found
By Stephen Oryszczuk
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