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Mar. 7, 2021
On the morning of March 3, 2020, Tamar Weinberg had just waved goodbye to her children on their school bus in New Rochelle, New York, when she received a text message informing her that school was closed and the students would be sent home.
“I said to myself, ‘Are you kidding me?’” she told Haaretz this week, a year since her small suburb suddenly became headline news.
Shortly after, Weinberg found out someone in her community had tested positive for the coronavirus. “And then we were stuck at home,” she said.
Located about a 40-minute drive north of New York City, New Rochelle is home to a large Jewish community. Last March, it became the first American epicenter of the coronavirus after a Jewish attorney who lives in the town, Lawrence Garbuz, became the second person in New York state to be diagnosed with COVID-19.
The mother talked with NBC New York around this time in March 2020, showing the first glimpses of life in quarantine, something that would become all too familiar for many. Weinberg was stuck in her home with her four kids and her husband, and would stay that way for quite a long time. Well thank God we still love each other, so there s still that, she said. It s been a difficult last few months. They did Zoom school for the entire academic year.
Like so many families, the Weinbergs had to adjust to a new reality. They ve also lost loved ones to COVID-19, and during quarantine Tamar found out she had the virus herself.
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