New York Serves Cease-And-Desist Order To Tolaas Yaakov Shul After Repeated Social Distancing Violations
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Congregation Kahal Tolaas Yaakov in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, whose leader Rabbi Chaim Mertz passed away from COVID-19 two weeks ago, was serv...
Minister Aryeh Deri: 70% Of Those Infected Were Chareidi, We Need To Do Soul-Searching
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Interior Minister and Shas leader Aryeh Deri spoke very candidly in an interview with the Kikar Hashabat Chareidi news site, noting that the present coronavir...
Emails Reveal Mayor De Blasio ‘Abused His Power’ To Help Stall Yeshiva Report
NEW YORK (VINnews) — According to a new report by the New York Post, Mayor de Blasio appears to have been personally involved to gain himself an extension of mayoral control of cit...
OU/RCA Issues Guidelines on Reopening Shuls
NEW YORK (VINnews) - The Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America are issuing the following guidelines to synagogues and communities regarding reopening.
This docume...
London City Worker Secures Jewish Funeral For 95-year-old Man Who Died Alone
LONDON (AP) - After several weeks at a London mortuary, the unclaimed body of 95-year-old Herbert Max Fraenkel was slated to be buried in a shared grave at a pauper’s funeral.
F...
Israeli Children’s Television Star Commits To Keep Shabbos In Order To Help Friend Recover
TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Israeli television star Michal Weizman, known as Michal Ha'Ktana, is a popular children's star who lives a secular lifestyle. However when her good friend Shir...
Veterans Left In Limbo As Virus Hits Nazi Defeat Anniversary
BRUSSELS (AP) — On Friday's 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, talk of war is afoot again — this time against a disease that has killed at least a quarter of a ...
UN Chief Says Pandemic Is Unleashing A ‘Tsunami Of Hate’
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-monger...
Dutch Police Hold Suspect After Kosher Restaurant Vandalism
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Police used pepper spray to subdue a suspect arrested Friday after a window was smashed at a kosher restaurant in the Dutch capital, the sixth act of vandalism at ...
Prof. Shuki Shemer,Director Of Asuta Hospital :Israel Must Prepare For Second Wave In Winter
TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Professor Yehoshua (Shuki) Shemer, the director of the Asuta association which runs hospitals in different regions in Israel and a former director-general of t...
Dr. Fauci To Orthodox Jews: Ease Into Communal Prayer As Gatherings Become Possible
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, who directs infectious disease research for the federal government, advised Orthodox Jews to phase in communal prayer as local governments lif...
Barry Farber Dies; Conservative Radio Host Ran For NYC Mayor
NEW YORK (AP) — Pioneering radio host Barry Farber, who hosted a conservative talk show for decades in New York City and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1977, has died.
Farber d...
Conspiracy Theorists Spread Weird Ideas On Social Media, Frustrating Frontline Health Professionals
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The advent of an unknown, mysterious, earthshaking pandemic is such an unfathomable event that it has served as a fertile breeding ground for all sorts of cons...
de Blasio’s Explanation for Not Taking Down Post-Funeral Social Media Post Rings Hollow as Reports of Deleted Tweets Surface
NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - Did New York City’s mayor dig himself into an even deeper hole during a May 4th conference call with members of the Orthodox Jewish media?
As pr...
Hans Calmeyer Is Remembered For Saving Thousands Of Jews. A Holocaust Survivor Says He Sent Her To Auschwitz.
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In his native Germany and beyond, Hans Calmeyer is celebrated as a hero who saved more Jews from the Holocaust than Oskar Schindler.
As a jurist for the Nazi G...
Kollelim, Yeshivas Prepare To Return To Beis Midrash In Small ‘Capsules’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Kollelim will be permitted to resume activities with a maximum of 15 scholars studying together in accordance with health ministry regulations' accord...
First Yeshiva Returns To Studies After Israel’s Health Ministry Authorizes “Capsules” Of 26 Students
RISHON LETZION (VINnews) — The first yeshiva to return to the new post-corona study situation was the Ateres Shlomo yeshiva headed by Rav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin, who also runs kollel...
Father Demands Paternity Test To Prove His Daughter Is Mamzeres
ASHDOD (VINnews) — An Israeli who resides in the US submitted a petition to the Israeli family courts against his 30-year-old daughter, requesting that the court order her to take ...
Lag B’Omer In Israel: Bonfires In Public Places And Courtyards- Prohibited, Special Lightings In Meron
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The upcoming holiday of Lag Ba'Omer has led to new arrangements both in Meron, which normally sees over half a million visitors but this year will only have a...
She Survived The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic And Covid-19. What Is This 107-year-old’s Secret?
WASHINGTON (JTA) - After Marilee Shapiro Asher was admitted to the hospital in mid-April sick with COVID-19, her daughter got a call from the doctor telling her she ought to get do...