As we head into what feels like the 48th month of 2020, weekly Zoom catch-ups and FaceTime video calls are getting increasingly repetitive. Like, seriously, what are we supposed to talk about when ...

Before Covid-19, when I taught in person, I always asked my students to post weekly essays on a discussion board I call the “sandbox.” During the pandemic, the sandbox has proved an effective way to ...

Once upon a time, people got together in the same room to learn, exercise, have fun, make connections. Then a virus crept and leapt from China to Hampton Roads, bringing disease, death, fear and ...

This is it, Gen Zers. This is our time to shine. We’ve been constantly ridiculed for “always being on our phones,” but as we face yet another unprecedented crisis, our tech-savviness has become our ...

At this point, you’re probably used to the fall semester being entirely online. Day in and day out, you open up your computer and click the links for your lectures. Needless to say, it can get quite ...

Read this article in Yiddish. The week before Hanukkah the Forverts shared a video of how I make potato latkes with my grandson, Leyzer. A number of commenters on Facebook wrote how nice it was that I ...

In the last 14 months, we’ve had to get creative about finding new ways to be together and learn new things. Those of us lucky enough to have a strong internet connection and a working computer have ...

Your at-home workout can be just as effective as your pre-COVID gym routine — here’s how We're hardly the first to point out that, 11 months into the pandemic, we are all sick of using our screens for ...

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