Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
COVID-19
The Latest
-
Fast Forward Drew Weissman, Jewish immunologist, wins Nobel Prize for his work on Covid vaccines
Weissman shared the prize with Katalin Kariko, his Hungarian-born research partner at the University of Pennsylvania.
-
Fast Forward With COVID’s resurgence ahead of the High Holidays, some synagogues are bringing pandemic guidelines back. But for most, it’s ‘business as usual.’
Some synagogues are offering mask-only sections, while one congregation in New York is requiring them
-
Fast Forward RFK Jr. on the people to blame for COVID: ‘We know who they were and they weren’t Jewish’
Kennedy also denounced antisemitism while defending his record on the Jews in an event organized by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
-
Opinion Shmuley Boteach can’t make Robert Kennedy Jr. kosher
American Jews look at Bobby Kennedy’s son and see Donald Trump
-
Politics ‘I didn’t say those things’: RFK Jr. denounces those who accuse him of promoting antisemitic COVID-19 conspiracy theory
Kennedy has been condemned by major Jewish groups for saying the coronavirus was 'ethnically targeted' to spare Ashkenazi Jews
-
Culture We need to talk about RFK Jr.’s antisemitic conspiracy mongering
The presidential candidate's remarks on COVID-19 offered a blend of old-world and new-school prejudice
-
Politics RFK Jr. said COVID-19 was targeted to spare ‘Ashkenazi Jews.’ One rabbi came to his defense.
Jewish groups condemned the remarks. But Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, in a YouTube video with Kennedy posted Saturday night, said the presidential candidate is misunderstood
-
Politics RFK Jr. gains traction amid revelations he compared COVID-19 vaccine mandates to Nazi experiments
In a video clip from 2020, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns against COVID-19 rules, adding that the 'Nazis did that in the camps in World War Two – they tested vaccines on gypsies and Jews'
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Music For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
- 2
Culture They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
- 3
Culture ‘A Complete Unknown’ proves that one thing about Bob Dylan will certainly endure
- 4
Film & TV Why ‘The Brutalist’ resonated so deeply with me
In Case You Missed It
-
News 18 notable Jews who died in 2024
-
Fast Forward Department of Ed resolves Title VI antisemitism complaints against 5 U of California campuses, U of Cincinnati
-
Theater While Yiddish lives, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s ghost stories may flourish
-
Yiddish World Frankie’s Menorah (a Yiddish Hanukkah story)
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
