NEW YORK (VINnews) On March 27th, as the desperate shortage of ventilators for coronavirus patients became more widely known, President Donald Trump posted on Twitter to urge Ford and General Motors to “START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!” Buzzfeed News reports that one of the thousands of replies that the tweet attracted struck an equally urgent tone: […]

(VINnews/Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) Q: How do we get a chillul Hashem, an embarrassment, a pshiya karov l’meizid, and a demonstration of ingratitude, and wrap it all in one? A: When even after having lost 1,000 lives in our own community, we still attend a funeral en masse and then condemn our city’s mayor, Bill de […]

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petira of R’ Pinchos Boruch Unger, a young resident of New Square who was stricken with the coronavirus.
Twenty three year old Pinchos Boruch caught the virus sometime after Purim and was taken into the hospital on Shabbos HaGadol after experiencing respiratory symptoms. Pinchos Boruch was nifter earlier today from the virus. He was not known to have any underlying conditions.
R’ Pinchos Boruch leaves behind his wife and a 16 month old child.
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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy met with President Donald Trump at the White House a short while ago, discussing coronavirus testing, financial assistance, and planning a “great comeback” for New Jersey.‬
‪“I thank you for the enormous help in our darkest hour of need,” Gov. Murphy said.‬
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OHEL Children’s Home & Family Services has made a special ‘My 2020 COVID-19 Time Capsule’, available to students in the Jewish community. 
This time capsule project was created by Natalie Long of LONG Creations.  It has been modified by OHEL’s team to meet the needs of the Jewish community, and offers individuals of all ages a chance to document their experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Before the pandemic becomes part of a history textbook, this project will become a personal keepsake for years to come.  With fun and engaging content, ‘My 2020 COVID-19 Time Capsule’ will grant families time together that is both meaningful and memorable. 

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New York’s 24/7 subway system will shutter nightly from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. to facilitate coronavirus cleaning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday in a historic move.
“You never had a challenge of disinfecting every train every 24 hours,” said Cuomo in an Albany press briefing, referring to the challenge he’d put earlier this week to the MTA. “It can best be done by stopping train service from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. every night.”
The “massive undertaking” is expected to impact 10,000 riders nightly, according to Cuomo, who said buses, vans and for-hire vehicles will be provided.
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More than 3.8 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week, according to the Labor Department, as the coronavirus pandemic’s economic toll burrowed deeper into the American workforce.
The outbreak and subsequent recession have wiped away all jobs created since the Great Recession. Economists estimate the national unemployment rate sits between 15 and 20 percent, compared to about 25 percent at the peak of the Great Depression.
For comparison, 4.4 million people applied for benefits for the week ending April 18., and 30.3 million have sought benefits in the past six weeks alone.
That figure represents about 1 in 5 American workers.
There is no precedent for figures like this in modern American history.