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.
Now more than ever, we need global cooperation to counter the continued threat of the pandemic. But the response to this crisis helps us distinguish between the pariah states of this world and countries that seek peaceful coexistence.
American Jewish Committee (AJC), the leading global Jewish advocacy group, launched a groundbreaking Arabic-language online video series aimed at increasing understanding of the Jewish people in the Arab world. Read more in Arabic here.