When Joseph Hershkowitz was asked to self-quarantine after going to a bat mitzvah attended by a coronavirus patient, it came at the cost of celebrate his own bar mitzvah. Until a rabbi's wife suggested: Why not a virtual bar mitzvah?
Follow live updates on coronavirusRabbi Binyamin Krauss, Hershkowitz's principal at Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy in the Bronx, offered the teenager a modern solution.32 states now have coronavirus as a cruise ship linked to dozens of cases will soon dock in the USSAR Academy had been holding classes by video conference after the possible coronavirus exposure.
" Many were his classmates, under quarantine in their family's homes, dressed in sweatshirts and pajamas."Here we are, so thankful that we can do this today," Joseph's mother, Karen, said at the end of the call."We're just so proud to be sharing this, wherever we are, however we can."The novel coronavirus has spread throughout the US. Hundreds of people have tested positive for the virus, which as of Sunday afternoon, had killed 19 people.
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