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• US predicts between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from coronavirus April 1, 2020
  The task force's leading infectious disease expert, estimating that 100,000 people who could die from the virus, said: "As sobering as that number is, we should be prepared for it.";
• Sheldon Adelson donates 2m. face masks to hospitals, first responders April 1, 2020
  Some 250,000 of the masks will go to the Trump administration’s program to assist health workers.;
• More than half of Americans have been praying for an end to coronavirus April 1, 2020
  The figure included 15% of people who usually never prayed, and a quarter of those who said they weren't normally religious.;
• Will the US ease its sanctions on Iran due to coronavirus? April 1, 2020
  “We are constantly re-evaluating all of our policies, including our sanctions policy,” says Pompeo.;
• Berlin antisemitism center ignores anti-Israel antisemitism April 1, 2020
  The Berlin Center for Antisemitism Research has faced criticism for employing a researcher who worked for an organization that promoted a rally calling for Israel's destruction.;
• 'Zoombombing' exposes Jewish online gatherings to antisemitism April 1, 2020
  In Thousand Oaks, California, an online school board meeting was reportedly interrupted with pornographic images, as well as a Nazi flag and swastika.;
• Two NJ couples charged with child endangerment over coronavirus gatherings April 1, 2020
  'My Office will prosecute any individual who defies or breaks the law, State of Emergency or otherwise. Everyone must respect and follow the law.';
• Shoppers shout across the wall in Wuhan, eager to return to normal life April 1, 2020
  Shoppers stood on chairs on Wednesday to get a glimpse of the goods on sale on the other side, shouting down to vendors to check on prices.;
• Coronavirus: Number of victims reaches 21, 5,591 Israelis infected April 1, 2020
  Of those infected, 97 are currently in serious conditions with 76 of them intubated. Overall, 637 people diagnosed with the virus are hospitalized.;
• Israeli researchers make 'significant progress' in coronavirus vaccine April 1, 2020
  The institute's director told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the vaccine was being readied for testing in animals.;
• In time of coronavirus, a call to make Seder communally on balconies April 1, 2020
  “One people one table” invites everyone to join so that anyone left alone in their home can celebrate the Passover Seder with their big family - the nation of Israel.;
• Hate crime law to be named after the rabbi who died in Monsey attack April 1, 2020
  Rabbi Josef Neumann, 72, went into a coma after the event at Monsey during the Hannukah celebrations last December, and died from his wounds on Sunday.;
• Bnei Brak mayor: 'The city must not become a ghetto' April 1, 2020
  Abraham Rubinstein spoke from his isolation about the possibility of a lockdown of the entire city: "we can't build a prison; the people won’t be able to handle it";
• Conservative Pastor: Coronavirus in synagogues is divine punishment April 1, 2020
  Rick Wiles, the Florida pastor who claimed that the effort to impeach President Trump was a “Jew coup,” said the spread of coronavirus in synagogues is a punishment of the Jewish people.;
• Jewish Canadians returning from US cause spike in coronavirus April 1, 2020
  Cote St. Luc, a Montreal suburb with the densest and most elderly Jewish population in Quebec, reported some of earliest cases and has declared a state of emergency.;
• Philadelphia Jewish day school art center makes face shields April 1, 2020
  Since starting production last week, the school in Merion Station has made about 200 shields for distribution to doctors and nurses in the community. Now it’s ramping up production to produce that ma;
• Biden widens lead over Trump despite coronavirus halting campaign – poll April 1, 2020
  The poll showed that the coronavirus had rattled the entire country, with 89% saying they were "very" or "somewhat" concerned by the respiratory disease.;
• Songwriter Adam Schlesinger hospitalized with coronavirus April 1, 2020
  Schlesinger, 52, who grew up in a secular Jewish home, has been in an unnamed hospital in upstate New York for over a week.;
• Mikvah-peeping Rabbi Barry Freundel set to be released early from prison April 1, 2020
  Freundel, 68, who began serving his prison term in May 2015, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years after pleading guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism, a charge that carries up to a year’s incarceration.;
• Pennsylvania man charged with making threats to Jews, other minorities April 1, 2020
  He used various aliases online to post hundreds of antisemitic, anti-black and anti-Muslim messages, images and videos;