Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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100 People Test Positive For Coronavirus In Boro Park, Hundreds Of Tests Still Pending

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BORO PARK (JTA) — At least 100 people have tested positive for the new coronavirus in Borough Park, a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency confirmed t...

Ateres Avraham And Continental Wedding Halls Close Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a statement released by Ateres Avrohom and Continental, the halls announce that they will be closing their doors, effective immediately, until such time as ...

Flatbush: 1-Year-Old Jewish Child Passes Away, COVID-19 Testing Underway

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FLATBUSH (VINnews) — A 1-year-old Jewish child from Flatbush passed away on Monday morning. The health department is currently awaiting test results to determine whether or not the...

All Public & Private Schools In Rockland County Ordered To Close

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New City, NY (VINnews) — Rockland County Executive Ed Day issued a Declaration of a State of Emergency in Rockland on Monday. The State of Emergency will be in effect for thirty da...

Governor: NYC Schools To Close To Fight Coronavirus

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will close the nation's largest public school system on Monday, sending over 1.1 million children home in hopes of curbing the spread of coronavirus...

NYC Mayor: City Lockdown Possible In Virus Fight

NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on the world's coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 156,000 people and killed more than 5,800. The disease for most people causes only mild...

Guns, Handcuffs, Masks, Gloves: NYPD Preps For Coronavirus

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NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s largest police department is stockpiling masks and gloves, dusting off old emergency plans and taking to social media to dispel rumors, such as one tha...

NY Gov. Says Tens Of Thousands Could Be Infected, As First 2 Deaths Reported in New York

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NEW YORK (AP) - New York saw its first two coronavirus-related deaths Saturday - an 82-year-old woman in New York City who contracted the illness while dealing with an underlying r...

Big City, Big Worry: New Yorkers Fret As Bustling City Slows

NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers will awake Friday to find the coronavirus has left their their famously bustling city with no Broadway, no basketball games, no big gatherings, and a po...

NYC Officials Knock Down Train And Subway Closure Rumors

NEW YORK CITY (AP) — New York City officials moved swiftly Thursday to address a false text message spreading on social media claiming that the police department was planning to pu...

New York Bans All Gatherings Of 500 People Or More In An Attempt To Contain Virus

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NEW YORK (AP) — Museums prepared to shut their doors, the opera was silenced, lights dimmed on Broadway, big gatherings were banned and the subway was shunned as the largest city i...

COJO Flatbush Postpones Legislative Breakfast Due To Public Health Concerns

FLATBUSH (VINnews) — COJO Flatbush CEO Louis Welz announced on Wednesday that the social service agency’s 41st annual Community Legislative Breakfast, scheduled for Sunday, March 1...

Vaad Harabanim Of Bergen County Shuts Down Shuls, Yeshivos, Shabbos Guests, Levayos, Shiva

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BERGEN COUNTY, NJ (JTA) - The Rabbinical Council of Bergen County in New Jersey, in conjunction with local synagogues and day schools, just adopted sweeping regulations designed to...

NY Employee Of Meridian Capital Tests Positive For Coronavirus

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — An employee of Meridian Capital, a popular commercial real estate brokerage, has tested positive for coronavirus. The employee is based in New York. “We ...

Wary New York Subway Riders Carry On Amid Virus Concerns

NEW YORK (AP) — Touching a germy pole or interacting with a sick person was always a concern for the millions of people who use the New York City public transportation system every...

Port Authority Chief Tests Positive For Coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo Says

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NEW YORK (VINnews) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has tested positive for the n...

Rockland County: Health Department Warns Of Potential Coronavirus Exposure in Atrium Wedding Hall

New City, NY (VINnews) — Rockland County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert advises residents that two Rockland County residents who have been confirmed to have Coro...

Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein: Eliminate Driver’s License Suspension Due To Unpaid Fine

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NEW YORK (VINnews) - Is your driver’s license valid? It may not be. In the last 28 months, New York issued nearly 1.7 million driver’s license suspensions for not paying traffic ti...

My Kids’ Jewish School Closed. But Here’s Why My Family’s Coronavirus Quarantine Hasn’t Been So Bad.

NEW YORK (JTA) —“Really, Mother?! A BELL?!” Dinner was ready at around 7 p.m., so I walked down the hall to my children’s wing and dropped off their plates — with a bell, so the...

Woman Indicted With Hate Crime For Anti-Semitic Attack On New York City Subway

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NEW YORK (JNS) — A woman who went on an anti-Semitic tirade against two Jewish people on a New York City subway in December was indicted with a hate crime by a Manhattan grand jury...
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