With over 100,000 total cases of the disease and more than 9,000 deaths, after the United States and Italy, Spain ranks third in cases of COVID-19, and is second only to Italy in the number of fatalities.
Rabbinic directives for social distancing and curtailing prayer gatherings and other religious social meetings are not new. Indeed, dealing with contagious disease has been a Jewish preoccupation since ancient times.
The fourth and final session of AJC Los Angeles’s Global Briefing Series on Antisemitism focuses on fighting antisemitism online, on campus, and in Congress.
Watch AJC CEO David Harris's presentation of part two of his two-part firsthand account of some of the key moments of the movement that freed Soviet Jewry and helped bring down the Soviet Union.