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Three weeks ago, on March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus COVID-19 to be a pandemic. As the contagion spread from China to other countries, there was…
It seemed to happen in the blink of an eye. Accommodations that people with disabilities had requested for years were implemented nearly overnight. Jobs that were supposedly impossible to accommodate…
Earlier this month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lijian Zhoa promoted the notion that the coronavirus plaguing the globe today did not originate in China but rather was brought there by…
(The Washington Post) – A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine is making people think twice about how they might be exposed to covid-19 if they open…
Teaching the halachos of korban olah, the Torah concludes by describing it as rei’ach nicho’ach, “a pleasing fragrance.” The same words follow the hala-chos of bringing a bird as a…
As millions of Americans looked on impatiently, their lawmakers on Capitol Hill worked — and bickered — around the clock for five days over the economic rescue package in the…
Many people are worried that social distancing and state lockdowns will “kill the economy.” That’s the wrong analogy. Now that the massive $2 trillion stimulus bill is set to become…
Sitting in Hamodia headquarters in this time of great confusion, many questions, thoughts and complaints are coming in through phone calls, emails, texts and even letters. Let me share with…
“Number one …” presidential hopeful Joe Biden Jr. said at his March 15 debate with equally hopeful (though less entitled to be so) Senator Bernie Sanders, “if I’m elected president…
Fear, with all its definitions, feelings and types, is an emotion that Hakadosh Baruch Hu put in our souls, just like a virus is part of the physical being. The…
Let’s imagine a wealthy Parisian who threw a fabulous party to celebrate his successful acquisition of a major jewelry company. This was the happy realization of his dreams after years…
In 1996, when Binyamin Netanyahu defeated Shimon Peres by a hairsbreadth, Peres responded famously by saying, “The Jews defeated the Israelis.” The same could be said about what happened two…
It’s strange but true: We sometimes fail to acknowledge the most important thing in the universe. That would be bechirah, Hashem’s astonishing gift of free will to mankind. We humans…
A worried call came in to Hamodia’s Brooklyn office from a loyal, longtime reader. She had heard that one or more employees of Hamodia had tested positive for coronavirus and…
Lma’an achay v’reiyei I speak out of concern for the welfare of every individual. The medical situation throughout the world is very serious, and calls for a public statement. The…
Reactions to the developing coronavirus saga range from one extreme to the other — literally. Some are trying their hardest to downplay, or even shrug off, the serious nature of…
“In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.” – Giulio Andreotti, former prime minister of Italy For a few hours it looked like the nightmare was over.…
It’s been some 700 years since the bubonic plague ravaged central Asia, killing millions of people. A decade or two later, in October 1347, a ship from the Crimea docked…
The State of Israel has just concluded a very emotional election for the third time in a year. The way it looks now, there is no easy solution, and people…
Rosh Chodesh Adar has arrived, and Jewish hearts and minds are now drawn to the upcoming joyous Yom Tov of Purim. For the youngsters, the planning revolves primarily around their…