Jewish federations, denominations, day schools, Hebrew classes and synagogues are adapting to weeks and possibly months of social distancing and quarantines due to the pandemic.
Coronavirus prompts Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz to issue instructions for worshippers at the holiest site where Jewish prayer is permitted to keep their distance from the Second Temple-era stones as well as each other.
As Iranian death toll from virus approaches 1,000, President Hassan Rouhani urges population to stay home, observe health protocols.
Yehuda Mahfoud says that mohels maintain total hygiene, and that while the circumcision bash can be canceled, the brit itself is of utmost importance in Jewish law.
Rather than have the all 120 members sworn in simultaneously in the plenum, unique inauguration sees MKs taking the oath of office in groups of three.
