Cuomo: Health Workers To Supervise Annual 9/11 Light Tribute
NEW YORK (AP) — The annual light display honoring victims of 9/11 is back on, officials announced Saturday, saying New York health officials will supervise this year's tribute to e...
Canada US Border Restrictions Extended To At Least September
TORONTO (AP) — The Canada-U.S. border will remain closed to non-essential travel for at least another month, Canada’s public safety minister said Friday.
The statement by Public...
Federal Judge Upholds New York’s COVID-19 Travel Quarantine
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge threw out a lawsuit by an Arizona woman who claimed New York’s 14-day quarantine requirement for travelers from hotspot coronavirus states infrin...
Rabbi Refael Aharon Roth, Admor Of Shomrei Emunim, Dies Of COVID-19
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Refael Aharon Roth, the Admor of Shomrei Emunim, passed away Thursday from coronavirus at the Laniado hospital in Netanya at the age of 72.
The rebbe...
Israel Donates Advanced Medical Equipment To India In Fight Against COVID-19
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The cooperation between Israel and India regarding combating the coronavirus has strengthened the warm ties between the two countries and provided a unique op...
Companies Test Antibody Drugs To Treat, Prevent COVID-19
NORTH CAROLINA (AP) — With a coronavirus vaccine still months off, companies are rushing to test what may be the next best thing: drugs that deliver antibodies to fight the virus r...
Study: Stigmas, Rumors And Fake COVID-19 News Cause Numerous Deaths And Injuries
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A new study published by the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene claims that rumors, stigma and conspiracy theories regarding coronavirus have le...
Watch: ‘If I Forget Thee O Jerusalem’ In Teheran
TEHERAN (VINNews) — A new clip of a wedding taking place in Teheran shows a groom reciting the words "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem" together with the rabbi of the Iranian Jewish c...
The Sadigura Rebbe: An Appreciation
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — The Sadigura Rebbe's sudden passing at the age of 65 left his children orphaned, his Chasidim bereft of their leader, and the Jewish nation bereft of one of i...
R’ Avraham Steinberg (74), Caterer And Initiator Of Drum Sets At Jerusalem Weddings, Dies Of COVID-19
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — If you ever attended a Chareidi wedding in Jerusalem you cannot help noticing the drum sets and singers replacing a regular orchestra. The noise levels and jo...
Russia Registers Virus Vaccine, Putin’s Daughter Given It
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Tuesday became the first country to officially register a coronavirus vaccine and declare it ready for use, despite international skepticism. President Vlad...
Health Officials Are Quitting Or Getting Fired Amid Outbreak
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health leaders around the U.S. have resigned o...
MTA Asks Apple’s Help To Solve iPhone Mask Issues
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s mass transit agency wants Apple to come up with a better way for iPhone users to unlock their phones without taking off their masks, as it seeks to guard...
WHO Says COVID-19 Seems To Lack Seasonal Pattern
LONDON (AP) — The emergencies chief for the World Health Organization said that COVID-19 doesn’t seem to follow the seasonal patterns that some viruses exhibit, making it harder to...
Melbourne Deaths Rise At Aged-Care Facilities
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia has reported fewer new daily cases from its virus hotspot in the city of Melbourne than on any single day since last month. But it has also reported the nat...
Study: Half Of British And American Adults May Not Take Coronavirus Vaccination
LONDON (VINnews) — Even when a vaccine will finally be found for the coronavirus, new polls claim that nearly half of British citizens and half of Americans may not even take the v...
Ohio Governor’s Conflicting COVID-19 Tests Raise Backlash
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio governor's positive, then negative, tests for COVID-19 have provided fuel for skeptics of government pandemic mandates and critics of his often-aggre...
Beirut Woman Delivers Baby As Explosion Rocks Hospital
BEIRUT (VINnews) — A Beirut woman was reaching the end of her labor just as explosions rocked the Lebanese capital last week. Her husband, who was trying to capture the special mom...
US Reaches 5 Million Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
ROME (AP) — The confirmed number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. reached 5 million Sunday, by far the highest in the world, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University...
After 20 Years Of Chronic Suffering, Woman Contracts COVID-19, Which Wipes Out Previous Virus
JERUSALEM (VINNews) — A Jerusalem woman, the wife of a well renowned Torah scholar, contracted a debilitating virus twenty years ago. The virus attacked her body relentlessly and a...