Crisis and Controversy: New York’s Orthodox Jewish Community During COVID-19

Crisis and Controversy: New York’s Orthodox Jewish Community During COVID-19

12pm PDT

New York’s Orthodox Jewish communities have suffered disproportionately during this global pandemic, with high percentages of COVID-19 cases and deaths.

This conversation will take a deep dive into the challenges, crises, and controversies in the Orthodox world during COVID-19 with Jacob Kornbluh, a reporter for the Jewish Insider and native of Brooklyn, whose fearless reporting on his own community has received national attention.

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Jacob Kornbluh is the national politics reporter for Jewish Insider. Kornbluh covers politics with a Jewish angle and regularly interviews political commentators and security experts for Jewish Insider’s Daily Kickoff morning newsletter. He was featured in JTA’s 2018 list of top 50 Jews to follow on Twitter. He previously worked as City Hall reporter for JP Updates and and covered the 2013 NYC mayoral race for the Yeshiva World News.

Nathan Miller is a communications strategist sought out by executives at the highest levels of business, government, and the non-profit world. Before founding Miller Ink in 2013, Nathan was the Director of Speechwriting for Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, serving as a senior communications adviser and the chief speechwriter for Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor. Nathan also served as the policy director of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and as a Goldman Fellow at the Transatlantic Institute, a think tank in Brussels, Belgium.