Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Community in Covid Crisis
explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. When the pandemic reached Israel last year, I knew that the photographer who managed to get inside the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community would find a gripping story. Their extremely insular way of life — of regular prayer, collective religious study, and mass weddings and funerals — is incompatible with social distancing. I feared that this would make them especially vulnerable to the coronavirus, and would worsen the tensions between the ultra-Orthodox and secular worlds. Bu...
Source: nytimes.com