Chazzan Bauer Singing "Ana Avdah" in the Sukkah of the Sadigereh Rebbe Yerushalyim

  

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No community is an island: The ultra-Orthodox Corona crisis

by Menachem Bombach

In recent weeks, Israel has been overwhelmed by skyrocketing COVID-19 infection rates. According to Ronni Gamzu, Israel’s coronavirus czar, more than 40 percent of all new Coronavirus cases are found in members of the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community.

According to the government statistics bureau, however, the Haredi community makes up only some 12% of the overall Israeli population (a number that is expected to increase dramatically, until the Haredi community constitutes approximately 25% of the population in 2048). This shows us that during corona times, even a small group of people can have an enormous impact on the nation’s future.

What accounts for the dramatic rates of infection in the Haredi community? How have we gotten into a situation that not only threatens human life but touches on raw nerves politically and socially, and is causing a huge rift between the different sectors in Israeli society?

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Blogger Suggests That the Jewish People Separate From Chassidim that are Deliberately Spreading the Virus!

by Donniel Hartman

What should Israel’s response be to its Haredi communities’ wanton disregard of the coronavirus quarantine guidelines?

I know that by merely raising the question, I risk being accused of a form of anti-Semitism, unfairly singling out the liberal Jews’ favorite target. Critics may argue that the Haredim are not a monolithic group. Every community has its outliers. What about the anti-Netanyahu demonstrators, and so on?

All of the above counterarguments are true. The Sephardi-Haredi leadership unequivocally supports stringent quarantine as a religious obligation. Many within the Ashkenazi-Haredi community do the same. Many in Israel, including our ministers and leaders, are small-time quarantine busters. We all are.

It is also true that the anti-Netanyahu demonstrators are breaking social distancing regulations. I, for one, do not believe that Israel’s democracy will be threatened if demonstrations are limited to 20 people in thousands of sites around Israel, until which time the number of newly infected drops below 2,000 per day.

The simple fact remains, however, that 40 percent of new infections every day come from within the Haredi community, and there is no evidence of increased infection among the political Left. By contrast, the percentage of Haredim who are tested and come out positive is close to 25%, three times higher than every other sector in Israeli society, including Arab Israelis, who in August also led the anti-quarantine charge. Today the Haredi community leads both in numbers of critically ill and deaths, far in excess of its proportional size. These statistics require an accounting and a coherent public response.

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Golders Green has highest Covid-19 infection rate in Barnet

Golders Green ward had the highest Covid-19 infection rate in Barnet, according to latest statistics from the council.

At 71.74 cases per 100,000 people, Golders Green ward’s case rate was two and a half times higher than the borough average of 28.6 cases per 100,000, for the week ending September 26.

Golders Green had the largest Jewish population of any ward in the country in the 2011 Census, but there is nothing to link the high number of cases to the Jewish community specifically.

Golders Green has recorded the highest number of confirmed cases in Barnet with 899, followed by Childs Hill with 698 and Garden Suburb with 679.

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The PA's Most Dangerous Enemy is Archaeology

by Stephen M. Flatow

Pundits will tell you that the most dangerous enemies of the Palestinian Arab cause are the Gulf kingdoms that have decided to recognize Israel, or the European countries that are moving their embassies to Jerusalem, or the American politicians who refuse to keep underwriting the Palestinian Authority's debts.

I disagree. I say that the Palestinians' most formidable foe is … archaeology.

A 2,000-years-old mikvah (ritual bath) was recently uncovered in the Lower Galilee. Most people probably would never have heard about the discovery if not for the dramatic photos of the entire structure being carried by truck to a nearby kibbutz for preservation.

The remarkable sight of a truck-borne mikvah, however, also makes one pause and reflect on the remarkable implications of the archeological find.

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Trump promises all Americans free access to same experimental COVID drugs he got

  US President Donald Trump on Wednesday credited an experimental drug treatment with helping his recovery from COVID-19 and suggested his diagnosis could be a “blessing in disguise” for the nation’s battle against the pandemic .

In a new White House video posted Wednesday evening, Trump said his illness had shed light on an experimental antibody cocktail that he credited for his improved condition. Seemingly sensitive to the fact that his treatment course is far from that received by average Americans, he promised to swiftly get the drugs approved for use — and for free — even though he does not have the power to order that himself.

“I want everybody to be given the same treatment as your president, because I feel great,” Trump said from the Rose Garden. “I feel like perfect.”

Trump received an experimental antiviral cocktail made by Regeneron through a “compassionate use” exemption, a recognition of the above-and-beyond standard of care he receives as president. The safety and effectiveness of the drug have not yet been proven. Most people recover from COVID-19.

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Doctor, 28, who died from COVID-19 wore same mask for ‘weeks if not months’

 A 28-year-old doctor who died fighting COVID-19 had been wearing the same mask at the Houston hospital where she worked for “weeks if not months” when she became infected with the illness, her family said.

Dr. Adeline Fagan, who was from Syracuse, started experiencing symptoms while doing a rotation in July treating coronavirus patients at HCA Houston Healthcare West, the Guardian reported.

It’s unclear how she became infected, but her family believes that her alleged lack of proper PPE likely played a role.

“Adeline had an N95 mask and had her name written on it,” her sister, Maureen Fagan, told the outlet.

“Adeline wore the same N95 for weeks and weeks, if not months and months.”

Adeline, who was a second-year OB-GYN resident, quarantined at home after testing positive for the virus, but her sister urged her to go to the hospital when she noticed her lips had turned blue.

For two weeks, the hospital attempted to treat her failing lungs with supplemental oxygen, the outlet reported.

But she was ultimately transferred to another hospital, where she was placed on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine, or ECMO.

Her family said she appeared to show improvement, but then they received the news last month that she had suffered a massive brain bleed and required emergency surgery.

“The doctor said they have seen this type of event in COVID patients that spend time on ECMO,” her family wrote on a GoFundMe page.

They said they were told there was a “1 in a million” chance of her making it through the procedure, which could result in severe cognitive and sensory problems if she survived.

“We spent the remaining minutes hugging, comforting, and talking to Adeline,” the family wrote. “And then the world stopped.”

A spokesperson for the hospital where she worked said colleagues were “heartbroken” by the doctor’s death.

But the facility’s chief medical officer, Dr. Emily Sedgwick, denied allegations that staffers are required to constantly reuse their PPE.

“Our protocol, based on CDC guidance, includes colleagues turning in their N95 masks at the conclusion of each shift, and receiving another mask at the beginning of their next shift,” she told the Guardian.

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Pence effectively went after Harris — and a very biased moderator

by Michael Goodwin

 Going into Wednesday’s showdown, Mike Pence had two big jobs. One, to defend the Trump administration’s record, especially its response to the pandemic. Two, convincingly paint the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket as the most radical national nominees a major party has ever put forward.

Mission accomplished. Pence is a skilled and disciplined debater, and his understated manner masks a killer instinct. He was always good, terrific at times and put on a clinic in how to methodically carve up an opponent.

Whether it matters in the big scheme of things is a separate question.

Maybe a little, which is to say not nearly enough to change the dynamics of the race.

Pence seemed hesitant initially, but quickly rose to the moment and grew increasingly better at seizing openings and turning around biased questions from moderator Susan Page to go on offense. By the end of the evening, he had clearly won the debate.

He did it by nailing the inconsistencies of Biden’s varying positions on taxes, fracking and fossil fuels in ways that highlighted the ways the Democrats have created a fog about what they would do if they win. After Harris promised that on “Day One, Joe will repeal” the Trump administration’s 2017 tax cuts, Pence responded: “She just told you, on Day One, Joe Biden’s going to raise your taxes.'”

On China, he delivered the hammer, saying: “Joe Biden’s been a cheerleader for Communist China over the last several decades.”

He also succeeded at laying out Harris’ voting record as being “more liberal than Bernie ­Sanders’.”

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Germany All Over Again? Chassidic Jews Refused Entry at Newburgh, NY Bowling Alley

The repercussions of NY Governor Cuomo’s verbal assault yesterday on the Hasidic and other Orthodox Jewish communities are already beginning to appear.

A Newburg based bowling alley refused service to a number of Orthodox Jewish families on Thursday afternoon. This was less than 24 hours after the governor’s controversial speech and draconian measures limiting synagogue services to ten people per synagogue in what he termed “red zones.”

Approximately twenty un-related and un-connected families tried to go bowling when rain forced them to change their Chol HaMoed plans. Slightly after 2:15PM near Newburgh, NY, it began to rain.

One family related their version of what had transpired:

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