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Naomi Zeveloff

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US members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wearing protective masks, gather at Toncontin International airport before heading home, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, March 29, 2020.

Latter-day Saints calls missionaries home amid coronavirus 

Religion

This isn’t the first time that missionaries have been called home in large numbers. It happened in World War II, when hundreds of Latter-day Saints missionaries left Europe. 

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family wearing masks

Coronavirus restrictions challenge customs of ultra-Orthodox in Israel

COVID-19
Fadhi Jabari says he prays at al-Aqsa mosque sometimes five times a day. The mosque is now closed but the grounds remain open.

In Jerusalem’s Old City, the faithful cope with the coronavirus

COVID-19
Rachel Gutman says she votes partly because she wants to have a voice on American foreign policy in Israel. 

Israel’s Democrats Abroad cast their votes in the US primary election

Shamshiri, a Persian restaurant in South Tel Aviv, Israel. 

After Soleimani’s death, Persian Israelis are caught between two homelands

Noam

How comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi became the woman who proposed to MBS

Noam Shuster-Eliassi says she doesn’t just want to make people laugh — she wants to make them think.