Ari Feldman is a staff writer at the Forward. He covers Jewish religious organizations, synagogue life, anti-Semitism and the Orthodox world. If you have any tips, you can email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aefeldman.
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News Hasidic doctor steps up campaign for controversial drug, as states clamp down on prescriptions
Emboldened by overtures from the White House, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, the Hasidic doctor pushing an unproven treatment for coronavirus, on Friday stepped up his campaign to build support for the controversial regimen, with a YouTube video and an email blast to conservative media and political figures touting his results. “CONCLUSION — TREAT AS EARLY AND…
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News A Jewish doctor’s off-label virus treatment is now being used in multiple states
The controversial coronavirus drug that a Hasidic doctor has been using to treat hundreds of people with moderate symptoms in upstate N.Y. is also being tried by doctors in at least three other states, and New York health officials have started using it to treat critically ill patients in hospitals. The expansion in the use…
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Fast Forward Coronavirus cases jump in Jewish corner of Long Island
The center of Orthodox Jewish life on Long Island, N.Y., — the Five Towns suburbs — now have 193 reported coronavirus cases, highlighting the growing spread of the virus outside the New York City area and into the surrounding suburbs. The rise in cases there has been dramatic: the Nassau County Department of Health reported…
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News This doctor was already treating patients with Trump’s ‘gift from God’ drug – before FDA approval
On Tuesday morning, the controversial and experimental coronavirus treatment program being run by a Hasidic doctor who claimed he had kept more than 500 symptomatic patients out of the hospital was shut down. By afternoon, after intervention from the White House, it was up and running again. The doctor, Vladimir Zelenko, has been in isolation…
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Fast Forward Hasidic man refused service by Toyota dealership ‘because you’re spreading the virus’
A Hasidic man was refused service at a Toyota dealership in New York Monday after being accused of “spreading the virus.” In several videos and voice notes shared on WhatsApp, the man described making an appointment at Johnstons Toyota, in New Hampton, N.Y., and then being asked to leave without having his car serviced, even…
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News Does Cuomo’s ban on gatherings exempt houses of worship?
On Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he would ban all “non-essential” gatherings in an executive order, the latest step in the state’s increasingly stringent and sweeping rules to enforce social distancing and limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. “This is not life as usual and accept it and realize it and…
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News Right before Shabbat, Cuomo bans gatherings, and a Hasidic town cancels services
Shabbat, the time when observant Jews typically gather together to pray and socialize, is coming fast. And across the Hasidic world, there are signs that more communities — but not all — will be obeying the strict social distancing rules announced by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Friday afternoon. The rules include a ban on…
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News Brooklyn clinic reports 500 coronavirus cases. But city questions its testing methods.
An urgent-care center that serves Hasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn said Thursday that it has confirmed 528 cases of coronavirus among the 937 people it tested since last Friday, heightening concerns that infections in the highly social Hasidic world are spiking — and that the clinic’s aggressive approach could be helping it spread. With test kits…
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