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Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jul 4, 2022, 6:14 AM

Twice corona within a month

I've been very careful not to fall victim to corona. Yet, in the past month, I had the doubtful honor to get the virus twice. Here's some autobiography. When the virus was still mean and vaccinations weren't yet, I stayed...

Ziona Greenwald

Jan 17, 2022, 11:02 AM

Shut the Schools Now!

Our children’s future is at stake. Their welfare hangs in the balance. Each day that passes, the damage increases. It’s time to act: From kindergartens to high schools, the education system must be shut down. The danger is real –...

Danielle Nagler

Jan 9, 2022, 6:28 PM

Don’t take it out on the testers

Magen David Adom workers conduct COVID-19 rapid antigen tests at an MDA testing center in Jerusalem on January 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

With so many waiting for so long, tempers fray, but the volunteers, among them my daughter, are already working 11-hour shifts, barely stopping for a drink

Jan 3, 2022, 6:05 PM

Omicron’s gift

Like many people worldwide, Omicron threw a wrench in our family’s vacation plans. There we were, all set to drive down from Georgia to Florida as we do every year to visit family. But then a few symptoms and...

Dec 23, 2021, 10:57 PM

Have You Tested?

If you’ve been out in the streets recently, you’re sure to have seen the endless lines that stretch all the way around the block (and further!) at every testing site in this city. Wait times are longer than at...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 23, 2021, 3:29 PM

Cautiously optimistic about Omicron and Coronavirus in general

There are new grounds for some optimism about the coronavirus infection with the newest variant Omicron and the COVID-19 pandemic as a whole. However, mind you some caveats. 1. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Ideas are nice,...

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Dec 21, 2021, 12:51 PM

A way out of the narrow places

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With the full significance of the Omicron variant still uncertain, I find freedom from the panic inside me by looking outside myself – at you

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