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This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). (CDC Photo/Alissa Eckert, MS, Dan Higgins, MAMS)

Guest Commentary: COVID-19 pandemic no laughing matter

March 16, 2020 Marc Blesoff 2

Guest contributor Marc Blesoff offers some suggestions on how to cope with emotional and physical stress during the coronavirus shutdown. [Read more…]

How To Respond When Everything Falls Apart

March 9, 2020 Rabbi Jill Zimmerman 0

Rabbi Jill Zimmerman discusses ways to deal with troubled times effectively. [Read more…]

Baby Boomer Bubbe

Telling Our Kids/Grandkids Bad News…

October 31, 2018 Sandra Taradash 0

Like most of us on Saturday, October 27, we welcomed our lazy-day Shabbat to horrendous news of slaughter at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Eleven dead. Six injured, including police officers who were [Read more…]

Photo Composition adapted from "Bella Bella Hospital 3" by Sara Star NS, via Flickr.com Creative Commons License

A Health Crisis Changes Everything

June 7, 2016 Rabbi Mark Levin 0

Editor’s Note: This contribution from Rabbi Mark Levin was previously published on his Facebook page in 2014. I learned recently how disorienting it can be to have the life of the person on whom I [Read more…]