Pandemic

JTA — In early December, Judaism’s Conservative movement sent a disquieting message to dozens of synagogues looking for a new rabbi: Many of you won’t make a hire this year. At least 80 Conservative synagogues anticipated rabbi vacancies — approximately one of every seven affiliated with the movement, the email…

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After two months of disappointing job growth, the U.S. jobs report released Friday shows that 467,000 non-farm payroll jobs were added in January. Despite this increase, the unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.0% in January from 3.9% in December. The unemployment rate remains higher than the 3.5% unemployment rate recorded…

The COVID pandemic has accelerated change in marketing organizations at a pace not seen since the smartphone first launched. Digital has truly become the dominant experience for customers, stretching from how we buy things to how we work, learn and play. The result: boons for digital advertising, commerce, virtual events,…

In Review Gary Shteyngart’s book is set during the far-off-seeming ‘early days’ of the Covid pandemicGary Shteyngart’s fifth novel is set during the far-off-seeming “early days” of the Covid pandemic, said Claire Lowdon in The Sunday Times. Sasha Senderovsky, a successful Russian-born US novelist (like his creator), has retreated to…

Driven by a desire to achieve greater scale and gain access to cheaper capital, nonbank mortgage lenders dove headfirst into the public markets during the Covid-19 boom.  How could they resist? It was, after all, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for founders and private equity backers to cash in on historic origination…

Health expert: Not yet time to scrap alert level system amid COVID-19 pandemic People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila to shop on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until Jan. 15 due to the rise of COVID-19 cases.(FILE PHOTO BY ALI…

The world is still reeling (and will continue to) with the coronavirus pandemic and its after-effects. The unprecedented crisis that has started to become the new normal.  Since its first outbreak in late 2019, COVID-19 has killed millions of people and left millions of others grieving the loss of their loved ones.…

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday he was experiencing "mild symptoms" after testing positive for Covid-19, making him the latest of dozens of lawmakers to contract the virus during the pandemic. "Thankfully, I am fully vaccinated and already received my booster shot," the 82-year-old Maryland Democrat said in a…

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