By Dylan Scott, Vox.com

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
At the Seder, we raise the matzah and recite Ha Lachma Anya to open the Maggid section. We say that the matzah we are about to eat is the same matzah our forefathers ate in Mitzrayim. We continue with a seemingly unconnected invitation to poor people to join our meal. We conclude with the declaration that this year we are here, in golus, but next year we will be in Eretz Yisroel. Now we are enslaved, but in the coming year we will be free.
Why does this series of statements open the discussion about Yetzias Mitzrayim? What is the connection between these sentences? Why do we hold up the matzah?

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Dear Matzav.com Readers,
I and few members of my family are sick with coronavirus. I’d like to share my experience with people, because I think that lack of information and lack of knowledge what to do and when to act leads to dangerous situation. That’s exactly what we saw in couple of last weeks in those terrible news when people, even young in their 40 and 50, were brought to hospitals and past away soon after. Which means that their condition deteriorated to the point when doctors couldn’t save their lives.
First of all if somebody gets sick, don’t even think that it’s something else – you should suspect coronavirus.

By Sean Hannity

Enough is enough. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo needs to IMMEDIATELY lift his pharmacy ban that is forcing New Yorkers stricken by the coronavirus into an already overburdened hospital system to get the potentially life-saving drug hydroxychloroquine.

Because of an executive order issued by the Democratic governor, any new prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine must go through the already overrun hospital system. This makes no sense.

To Our Wonderful Ainiklach,
The two of us will miss being with you at the Seder this year. Being with you is the main joy of our Seder. We always love being with you.
We are asking each of you a favor: Please choose a question and answer about the Haggadah, or a Dvar Torah on the Haggadah and send it to us by regular mail or by e-mail. It could be a Dvar Torah from school or from a Haggadah at home. Or something from your parents.
Send it to us, and we will read it at the Seder, be’ezras Hashem. If you can, send one for each Seder. And send it to your other grandparents, as well.
After we read your devar Torah, we will pretend that you hid the Afikomen, and on Chol Hamoed, you can tell us what you would like for it.

Dear Editor,
I am writing this to all the people who have ruined my Yom Tov – and a lot more.
My wife and our five kids were supposed to go to my parents. We’ve never made Pesach and really cannot. Then someone decided that we can’t go because of the virus. Now I have to make my own Pesach, in my dinky little apartment, with 5 kids. I did a shopping and I’m out $1,500 that I don’t have, and we still didn’t get all the things we need. I don’t have the money. And I don’t have the wherewithal to make Pesach. 
Social distancing rules would allow me to go away – legally, medically, everything – but some people are now making up rules and imposing them on everyone and they’ve ruined it for us.

By Shani Fruchter
I am an acute care surgeon at NYU Langone in New York City.
I spent my afternoon going bedside to bedside saying viduy with members of our community.
This virus is dangerous. What is happening here in our city is scary. People are dying. Our community is dying.

By Kurt Siegelin
I’m going to start by apologizing to the people of Lakewood. In vetting a story, I screwed up yesterday. There were many reasons the tweets went out, but the responsibility is ultimately with me. It’s my account. I have a brand to protect. I regret it. I’m sorry for any pain or distrust the tweets created for residents who saw it. Mistakes were made.
Since this played out over twitter the last 24 hours, you here on facebook may not be aware of what happened. So here’s the background:
At 7pm yesterday from Newark, another anchor read a story about Toms River police pulling over a Lakewood school bus. Toms River police were working under the suspicion that a school in Lakewood was still operating and the bus was dropping off kids.

By Yanky Meyer, Misaskim
As the head of Misaskim, I am on the front lines in dealing with the multitude of tragedies in recent days. Misaskim has been inundated with calls and emergencies. With an unprecedented amount of niftarim in such a short period of time – and dozens of young, innocent yesomim added to our list – it has been a very tough week at Misaskim.
Misaskim’s mission is to alleviate tragedies with compassion – which is ever more important at a time when the traditional sense of shivah is not fulfilled. In addition to ensuring kavod hameis, each niftar has a family that he or she leaves behind, who need comforting in such trying times.