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News Sparks: Tragic Car Accident in Lakewood; Apple to Re-open Some Stores; Israel Receives Paxlovid; and Non-Jewish Germans Meet with Jews in New Program

News Sparks: Tragic Car Accident in Lakewood; Apple to Re-open Some Stores; Israel Receives Paxlovid; and Non-Jewish Germans Meet with Jews in New Program

By Yehudit Garmaise

Baruch Dayan HaEmes: 9-Year-Old Leah Gross, a”h, Passes Away after Car Accident in Toms River

A terrible car accident tragically took the life of 9-year-old Leah Gross, a”h, this morning, leaving the Toms River community in mourning.

Lakewood Hatzolah was on the scene to treat the victims who were injured in the accident that took place at North Bay Avenue and Whitty Road in Lakewood, when a minivan slid off the road and hit a tree head-on.

Toms River Emergency Medical Services rushed Gross, who was in traumatic arrest, to a local hospital, where paramedics and doctors did all they could to save her life, but she sadly passed away.

Apple Re-opens Some Stores to Offer Limited Services

Although New York City’s spike in COVID-19 positivity, which today was 12.59%, caused all of the city’s Apple stores to close their doors yesterday, this the popular stores opened for limited services by appointment, such as online order pickups, drop-in shopping, and Genius Bar tech support.

Apple is no longer offering the free two-hour delivery option it was advertising last week.

Before yesterday, the Apple website listed more than 20 store locations that were closed as a result of the pandemic, and just last week, Apple closed seven more stores in North America, as more and more Apple store employees began to test positive for COVID.

Israel Second County Outside of US to Receive Paxlovid anti-COVID Pills

Tomorrow, Israel will be the first country outside of the US to receive a shipment of Paxlovid, Pfizer’s anti-COVID drug that was the first to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, confirmed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

Israel’s Health Ministry also granted emergency approval on Sunday to the pill: Paxlovid, which has shown a nearly 90% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths among patients who are most likely to suffer severe illness.

The anti-COVID pills will be available for free for Israelis in high-risk groups, reported Israel’s Channel 12 News, which said that PM Bennett spoke with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla over the weekend to finalize an agreement for Israel to purchase approximately 100,000 Paxlovid pills.

German Jews Still Trying to Eradicate Pervasive anti-Semitism

The Central Council of Jews of Germany so feels the need to “humanize Jews amid years of rising anti-Semitic violence in the country” that it created a program called, “Meet-a-Jew,” in which non-Jewish people are introduced to Jewish people to get to know them and dispel hackneyed stereotypes.

“It is really important to be visible to achieve the goal of normalcy, so Jewish people aren’t perceived as something unknown or foreign,” Mascha Schmerling, Meet-a-Jew’s project coordinator said. “Being Jewish and German is not a contradiction. We want to show the variety of Jewish life.”

Through the program, 350 Jewish volunteers have been visiting schools, universities, sports clubs, churches, and mosques to talk with other Germans about themselves and field questions about Jewish life in a freewheeling, “ask-me-anything” style, which result in questions that can range from basic, sad, and perplexing.


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