Pandemic
A grandmother and grandson celebrate the latter's graduation during a masked window visit to the Jewish Association on Aging in June 2020. (Photo courtesy of Jewish Association on Aging)
March 24, 2025, 4:31 pm
Five years since pandemic hit, Pittsburghers look back and ahead
Takeaways from period vary, but constant theme is 'people need to be together'
By Adam Reinherz
Photo by Delegate Connect Images via Flickr at https://rb.gy/r9m07z
May 20, 2024, 2:02 pm
Bookended by pandemic and war, high school seniors reflect on the last 4 years
'Be flexible, control what you can control, but also let yourself ride the wave of what comes at you'
By Adam Reinherz
JoAnne Klimovich Harrop (left) takes a selfie with her mother, Evelyn Klimovich, outside Rivers Casino Pittsburgh in August 2019. (Photo courtesy of the Klimovich family)
January 22, 2024, 7:08 pm
A daughter’s promise: 85 days quarantining in a nursing home
Local reporter moved into Charles M. Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center to be with her mom during COVID-19
By Justin Vellucci
January 18, 2023, 12:01 pm
Chronicle poll results: The COVID era
We asked our readers if the COVID era is over. Here's what they said.
By Toby Tabachnick
Photo of Kari Semel and Andrew Exler by Rachel Rowland of Rachel Rowland Photography
March 11, 2022, 5:40 pm
Two years after pandemic’s start, Pittsburghers relish lessons learned
March 11 marks two years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Community members share insights and appreciations gained
By Adam Reinherz
Photo by saiva via iStock
August 12, 2021, 2:18 pm
Delta variant is uninvited guest for event planners
Celebrations continue, but uncertainties loom large
By Adam Reinherz
December 29, 2020, 1:52 pm
New Year’s resolutions borne of a pandemic
Here’s to a better 2021.
Abby Goldstein created an ‘imposter cake’ for a challenge in her Facebook group, “2020 Coronabake Challenge,” made from meat loaf and mashed potatoes. (Photo courtesy of Abby Goldstein)
December 14, 2020, 12:48 pm
From baking to music, new pastimes help fill space created by pandemic
Hobbies to quell quarantine boredom
By David Rullo
Supplemental religious school will look different this year. Here, fourth-graders learn the basics of havruta learning at J-JEP in 2017. Photo courtesy of J-JEP
August 17, 2020, 6:26 pm
Supplemental religious schools adapt to meet challenges of pandemic
COVID-19 outbreak forces some congregations to move classes online this fall
By David Rullo
The Jewish Criterion published this photograph of Esther Yochelson in her military uniform on Jan. 3, 1919, about six weeks after her death. The photograph also appears on a small porcelain portrait set into her grave marker at Elrod Cemetery. Photo courtesy of the Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives at the Heinz History Center
April 15, 2020, 3:46 pm
A casualty of the last pandemic
Pittsburgh nurse attended to soldiers-in-training during World War I
By Eric Lidji
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