Amish Put Faith In God’s Will And Herd Immunity Over Vaccine
PENNSYLVANIA (AP) - When health care leaders in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country began laying out a strategy to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, they knew it would be a tough s...
Hong Kong To Ban Passenger Flights From UK To Curb Virus
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's government says it will ban all passenger flights from the U.K. starting Thursday as it seeks to curb the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.
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The Overweight Men and the Great Weight Loss Bet
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
The story must have happened a number of years ago, because the question was posed to Rav Elyashiv zt”l.
Apparently, a group of overweight ...
Rescue Workers In Miami Identify Bodies Of Reb Yehuda Aryeh Leib Olivekowitz And His Wife Ruth A’H
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Rescue workers at the site of the South Champlain Tower in Miami have identified the bodies of Reb Yehuda Aryeh Leib Olivekowitz (79) and his wife Ruth (74) in...
Chabad Mother Describes How She Escaped Surfside Tower With Her Children Just Before It Fell
NEW YORK (VINnews) — While the world looks on in horror as rescue workers continue to try and save some of the more than 150 people trapped under the rubble of the South Champlain ...
IDF, United Hatzalah Send Rescue Delegations To Miami
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced Saturday night that a delegation from the IDF's search and rescue team will be sent to Miami to help in the rescue effo...
Lapid Urges Youth To Get Vaccine As Active Cases in Israel Surges, Appoints Special Airport Commissioner
JERUSALEM — Israel’s new prime minister is urging the country’s youth to get vaccinated as coronavirus case numbers have crept up in recent days due to a localized outbreak of the ...
WATCH: IDF Rescue Team Arrive To Florida Disaster Site
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israel elite IDF engineering team arrived this morning to Florida to help in recovery efforts following the collapse of a 12-story condo in Surfside, Florida on T...
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor To Head Meron Commission Of Inquiry
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor will head the commission of inquiry established to investigate the tragedy in Meron in which 45 people lost the...
Family Receives Calls From Landline Buried In Rubble Of Surfside Tower
NEW YORK (VINnews) — During the three days which have passed since the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Miami, there have been a number of signs of life from the...
Israel Brings Back Mask Rules As Variant Spreads
JERUSALEM — Israel, a world leader in vaccinations, is once again requiring people to wear masks in indoor public spaces amid a coronavirus outbreak driven by the arrival of a new ...
Lilly To Seek FDA Approval For Potential Alzheimer’s Drug
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Eli Lilly is nearly ready to take another shot at getting approval for a possible Alzheimer’s drug.
The drugmaker said Thursday that it plans to submit its p...
CDC Extends Eviction Moratorium A Month, Says It’s Last Time
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday extended the nationwide ban on evictions for a month to help millions of tenants unable to make rent payments during the coro...
Third Victim Of Karlin Bleacher Collapse Passes Away Five Weeks After Event
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 39-year-old Eliyahu Karpel is the third victim of the Karlin bleacher collapse which occurred on the eve of Shavuos, nearly six weeks ago. Karpel, who was fou...
Haaretz Publishes Anti-Chareidi Cartoon Regarding COVID-19 Spike: ‘We Need To Organize A Tish’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the coronavirus spike in Israel over the last few days, the Haaretz newspaper published a vitriolic anti-chareidi cartoon depicting chareidi MK...
Watch: Elephant Crashes Into Kitchen In Search Of Food
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A hungry elephant foraging for food crashed into a kitchen in Thailand in a vain search for food. The elephant can be seen in this clip vainly rolling its trun...
Israel Suffers Spike In COVID-19 Cases Of Delta Variant Particularly Among Schoolchildren
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel is suffering a steep rise in cases of Covid-19 , particularly among schoolchildren, with the main affected areas being the towns of Binyamina and Modii...
Biden Pushes Shots For Young Adults As Variant Concern Grows
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to get younger Americans vaccinated for COVID-19 as concerns grow about the spread of a new variant that threatens to s...
Almost 900 Secret Service employees were infected with COVID
WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 900 U.S. Secret Service employees tested positive for the coronavirus, according to government records obtained by a government watchdog group.
Secret ...
Watchdog: Nursing Home Deaths Up 32% In 2020 Amid Pandemic
WASHINGTON (AP) — Deaths among Medicare patients in nursing homes soared by 32% last year, with two devastating spikes eight months apart, a government watchdog reported Tuesday in...