Among the eight million Jews living in the Diaspora, the death toll from Covid-19 is in the thousands and climbing.

Three days ago, we found out that a member of our community was diagnosed with coronavirus. Hours after that, our entire congregation—including me, my husband and children—was quarantined.

According to the NYPD, through September 2019 there were 163 reported incidents of anti-Semitism—an increase of 50 percent from that period the previous year.