Cuomo: It’s ‘Bad News’ That COVID Vaccine Progress Is Coming Under Trump Administration
NEW YORK (VINnews) — While many in the U.S. are celebrating the news released by drug company pfizer on Monday, that initial results from human trials are proving effective, Gov. A...
Brooklyn Loses “Red Zone” Status, Non-Essential Businesses To Reopen
BROOKLYN (JTA) — Parts of Brooklyn that had high COVID test positivity rates in early October, including some with large Orthodox Jewish communities, will face fewer restrictions a...
Video: Jewish Single Mom Preparing Paint Kits Issued Violation While Alone in Closed Red Zone Store
BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - A single mother of five who went into her store on Saturday night to prepare holiday orders found herself slapped with a summons for violating Gove...
Election Officials: Early Voting Turnout Passes 2M In NY
NEW YORK (AP) — At least 2.2 million people have cast in-person ballots in New York ahead of Election Day, election officials announced Sunday, the state’s ninth and final day of e...
Jews For Trump Plan to Join NYC Trump Car Rally Just Days Before Election Day
NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - With the final moments ticking down until Election Day, members of the New York area’s Jewish communities are planning to join a massive non-denomi...
Cuomo Ditches Quarantine List: NY Requiring Most Travelers To Get A Negative Covid-19 Test
NEW YORK (VINnews) - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced new guidelines allowing out-of-state travelers to New York to "test out" of the mandatory 14-day quarantine.
Travel...
Cuomo Announces Agreement To Allow Red Zone Schools To Open
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced a deal that will allow schools in red and orange micro-cluster zones to reopen for in-person learning.
The new testing proto...
“Shaved Heads” Voter Fraud Attempt Busted In New York
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The NYPD is investigating an incident in which individuals attempted to alter their appearance in order to fraudulently vote more than once, according to a rep...
Jetblue Is The Latest Airline To Retreat From Blocking Seats
NEW YORK (JTA) - The days of airlines blocking seats to make passengers feel safer about flying during the pandemic are coming closer to an end.
JetBlue is the latest to indicat...
Debris Falls From Supertall NYC Skyscraper; No One Injured
NEW YORK (AP) — Debris fell from a supertall skyscraper nearing completion in New York City as the top of a crane spun in the wind Thursday evening, but no one was injured, officia...
Justice Department Ramps Up Inquiry Into NY Care Home Deaths
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department vastly expanded an inquiry Wednesday that could determine whether New York is undercounting coronavirus deaths among nursing home reside...
Rising Infections Complicate Rules For New York-Area Travel
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Rich Collins is trapped in the maze of coronavirus-related travel restrictions in the Northeast. The Rhode Island firefighter has custody of his 5-year-old d...
Meet A Rabbi Voting For Biden
QUEENS (JTA) - Rabbi Barry Kornblau, the rabbi of the Young Israel of Hollis Hills in Queens and a previous staff member at the Rabbinical Council of America, will not forget the m...
Cuomo Downgrades Orange County COVID Cluster From Red To Orange
NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - There was some good news for residents of Orange County’s COVID micro-cluster on Wednesday, with Governor Andrew Cuomo citing a significant drop in...
‘None Of You Should Be Seen At These Protests’: Satmar Rabbi Denounces Borough Park Protests
NEW YORK (JTA) — A leader of a major Hasidic sect denounced protests earlier this month where local Orthodox Jews voiced their anger at lockdown measures targeting their neighborho...
Williamsburg Architect Highlighted by NBC News for Election Acumen, Credits Communal Support as Key to Chasidic Businesses’ Success
BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - A Chasidic architect from Williamsburg has found himself in the media spotlight after being profiled by NBC News for his ability to accurately anal...
Watch: Health Inspectors Attempt To Write Summons For Empty Yeshiva Building
BROOKLYN (VINnews) — In a video that quickly went viral on Monday, health inspectors were caught attempting to write a summons for a Yeshiva in Flatbush, without verifying first wh...
Jews For Trump Car Parade Attacked By Protestors
NEW YORK (AP) — Skirmishes broke out between supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump as a Jews For Trump convoy of hundreds of cars draped with American flags and Trump ...
Videos: Massive Orthodox Jewish Trump Rally Underway In Brooklyn
BROOKLYN (JTA/VINnews) — At least four pro-Trump rallies were organized in Orthodox Jewish communities across the New York area today. In the more Modern Orthodox communities in Lo...
WATCH: Tucker Carlson Exposes CNN’s Chris Cuomo’s Blatant Mask Hypocrisy
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Tucker Carlson took some time in his opening monolugue on Wednesday to expose CNN's Chris Cuomo as a hypocrite when it comes to his mask usage.
Cuomo had al...