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THE DAILY EDITION Tuesday, March 31, 2020

The latest Jewish News – Read this week’s digital edition Aren’t able to pick up a copy of your favourite Jewish newspaper? Then read the digital edition here

DIRECTORY: Our virtual community BY ANDREW GILBERT Your essential, indispensable – and ever-growing – online resource for everything Jewish during the coronavirus lockdown.

Virtual map preserves memories of Jewish East End through photos and testimonies BY MATHILDE FROT

44 UK Jews have died after contracting coronavirus BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER The number of fatalities in the community accounts for close to 2.5 percent of the confirmed national toll as of 30 March

London shul’s Shabbat livestream interrupted by vile abuse BY MATHILDE FROT

Top doctor says Charedi community presents ‘ideal conditions’ for virus spread BY STEPHEN ORYSZCZUK Harley Street paediatrician Dr Andrew Sawczenko says strictly-Orthodox are vulnerable due to over-crowding and having large families, as he urges observance of social distancing

Rabbi insists Charedi adherence to social distancing rules ‘extremely high’ BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER

Volunteers appeal for donations to purchase equipment for NHS during crisis BY MATHILDE FROT Jewish GP urges community to back plan to ‘support medics in safely undertaking their role, limit the spread of this virus, and reduce the pressure on stretched NHS’

Orthodox leader branded ‘dangerous amateur’ for promoting risky anti-virus drug BY RICHARD FERRER A top medical expert has sharply criticised the founder of the Jewish Community Council of North London for urging the government to back a high-risk drug to treat coronavirus.

Tel Aviv City Hall lights up with MDA symbol to honour emergency workers Red Star of David appears on building in the heart of the Israeli city, as the country continues to battle the impact of the virus

Jewish and Muslim MDA paramedics pray together in inspiring photo BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER

MORE HEADLINES

Resolve disciplinary cases within four months, Board tells next Labour leader BY MATHILDE FROT   Lighten up lockdown with a Jewish News movie exclusive! BY BRIGIT GRANT   Children’s author Michael Rosen ‘very poorly’ BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER   Israel set to send first delegation to Prince Harry’s Invictus Games BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER   How our community is coping BY DEREK TAYLOR, JONATHAN SHAMIR, MICHELLE JACOBS, JO PEARLMAN AND OLIVER AND JOANNA VINACOUR   Tributes to Jerry Goldstein, father of two community leaders, who dies aged 80 BY JENNI FRAZER   Israeli researchers create new method for producing cultured ‘beef’ BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER   Emily Thornberry says UK should ‘learn lessons from Israel’ on repatriations BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER

ANALYSIS SAUL TAYLOR OPINION: Be a player not a spectator in times of crisis After participating in a national show of gratitude for the NHS, Saul Taylor reflects on his grandfather Lt. Col. Mordaunt Cohen signing up for national service in the war

OPINION: Keeping the UK’s mental health together feels like mission impossible BY DR MARK SILVERT   OPINION: Isolated, but the community is rising to the challenge BY NEVILLE GOLDSCHNEIDER   OPINION: The positive fallout of lockdown and isolation BY BRIAN GORDON

Guess who is coming to Seder? We asked some famous folk who they would invite to Manishtana alongside them…

The Jewish world according to Jackie Mason BY BRIGIT GRANT