The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 26, 2020March 26, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China by Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Chia-Hung Yang, Bernardo Gutierrez, Chieh-Hsi Wu6, Brennan Klein, David M. Pigott, Open COVID-19 Data Working Group, Louis du Plessis, Nuno R. Faria, Ruoran, William P. Hanage, John S. Brownstein, Maylis Layan, Alessandro Vespignani, Huaiyu Tian, Christopher Dye, Oliver G. Pybus, Samuel V. Scarpino on the Science website on March 25, 2020. Visualization comorbidity and case severity of covid-19 data in The Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Response Epidemiology Team. The Epidemiological Characteristics of an Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Diseases (COVID-19) — China, 2020[J]. China CDC Weekly, 2020, 2(8): 113-122. Image: Lejoon. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

America’s Largest Population of Holocaust Survivors Is Endangered by the Coronavirus as Crown Heights and Borough Park Shut Down

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 26, 2020March 26, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: America’s Largest Population of Holocaust Survivors Is Endangered by the Coronavirus as Crown Heights and Borough Park Shut Down: The pandemic inflicts miseries that are particular to each place it visits BY Armin Rosen on the Tablet website on March 24, 2020. Image: Christopher Macsurak. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Is Russia’s Coronavirus Case Count So Low?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 26, 2020March 26, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: Why Is Russia’s Coronavirus Case Count So Low? By Joshua Yaffa in the New Yorker on march 25, 2020. Image: https://www.vperemen.com. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Chabad vs. Reform

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 24, 2020March 24, 2020 Film, History

Click Here to Read: Chabad vs. Reform: A documentary about a Montana Lubavitcher raises the question of how best to do outreach by Sara Trapler Spielman on the Tablet website on March 23, 2020.

The Life of a Court Jew

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 24, 2020March 24, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Life of a Court Jew: Glikl of Hameln’s writings say much about Jewish commercial families in Central and Western Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries by Ntalie Zemon Davis on March 23, 2020.
Pharaoh and the Midwives, miniature on vellum from the Golden Haggadah, Catalonia, early 14th century, at the British Library, London/ Image: illustrator of the Golden Haggadah, Catalonia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Builders: How a community of Holocaust survivors climbed from the ashes of Europe to the White House, and at what price

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 24, 2020March 24, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Builders: How a community of Holocaust survivors climbed from the ashes of Europe to the White House, and at what price by Joshua Chaffin on the Tablet website on March 23, 2020.
President Donald Trump talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Friday, March 17, 2017, in the outer Oval Office, joined by Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How Iran Became a Global Vector of Infection for COVID-19

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 22, 2020March 22, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: How Iran Became a Global Vector of Infection for COVID-19: The authoritarian theocracy faces specific challenges in dealing with the coronavirus By Noam Blum on the Tablet website on March 13, 2020.
Covid-19 Cases in Iran. Image: Pharexia, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.