How many Jews have died from the Coronavirus in the USA? This is a question that is never openly asked and studiously avoided. Why? If you live in America, as I do, it should be a very basic question, to know exactly what is going on around you. After all, doesn’t knowing this bolster the case of those who take it seriously, and counter the what-me-worry attitude of those who are ignoring social distancing?
I just read an article claiming that Orthodox rabbis cannot agree on how and if to resume prayer Minyanim. Wouldn’t it help them decide if they could measure the scope of the tragedies around them? It would bring home the level of severity of this health crisis for those slacking off, and bring us face to face with the enormity of the losses American Jewry has suffered and confirm our need to mourn for the victims, particularly in Orthodox-Haredi-Hasidic-Sefardi circles in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan areas that have tragically been hit hard, and still are suffering.
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