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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)

Parshat Bo: Self-Centeredness or Compassion?

January 10, 2022 Chaplain Barry Pitegoff, BCC 0

Chaplain Barry Pitegoff, BCC, writes about the plague of darkness. [Read more…]

Rabbi Danny Siegel, poet and author, discusses his writing and his life work

October 16, 2020 Webmaster 0

On this episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, Rabbi Danny Siegel, a poet and author, discusses his writing and his life work. [Read more…]

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The Elder’s Unetaneh Tokef

September 24, 2019 Rabbi Susan Elkodsi 2

JSA contributor Rabbi Susan Elkodsi discusses the Unetaneh Tokef prayer and its meaning for contemporary worship. [Read more…]

TO BE OR NOT TO BE—PERFECT!

May 9, 2014 Sandra Taradash 0

We live in an imperfect world where we attain to be perfect. Well, maybe, sort of, not everyone. We know the imperfect world part is right, we see, feel and live it everyday (a missing [Read more…]