NEW YORK (VINnews) — New York health authorities are threatening to fine private schools across the state if they are not up to date on immunizations. The move is seen as a response to a recent discovery of poliovirus in wastewater samples from areas in and around New York City, as well as one case […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Chasidic Jewish social activist Moshe Morgereten, who heads the Tzedek organization, met Wednesday with Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev. Morgereten had been invited to visit the president by his father, Oleksandr Zelensky, who was inspired and moved by the work of Tzedek in Ukraine in helping refugees and sending tens […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Likud and UTJ’s negotiating teams have continued to focus on one of the last issues remaining between them, the draft law. According to the latest updates on the negotiations, Agudath Yisrael, the chasidic faction of UTJ, have withdrawn their demand to immediately legislate a law removing all sanctions or enlistment quotas from […]

Tofersen, which is injected into the spine like an epidural, is giving new hope to two patients at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

BEIJING (AP) — China said Wednesday it would stop reporting asymptomatic COVID-19 cases since they’ve become “impossible” to track with mass testing no longer required, another step in the country’s uncertain exit from some of the world’s strictest antivirus policies. China last week announced its most significant easing yet of antivirus measures and has begun […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli scientists announced a dramatic breakthrough which could prevent the wanton destruction of billions of male chicks annually. The new technology uses genetically modified hens, dubbed Golda hens, to lay eggs that only produce females. The technology has been developed over the last seven years, with embryology expert Dr. Yuval Cinnamon heading […]

Myositis elevates chances of heart failure, so Rambam Hospital team built a special algorithm that analyzes ECG tests and gives early warning

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — MKs from the outgoing coalition organized an emergency meeting in the Knesset, claiming that revoking the ‘grandchild clause’ would “profoundly damage the Israel-Diaspora relationship.” The revocation of the controversial clause, which allows those with one Jewish grandparent to attain Israeli citizenship, is a central demand of all of the religious parties. These […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Moderna’s stock soared Tuesday after the COVID-19 vaccine maker detailed progress in developing a preventive shot for a deadly form of skin cancer. The company said a possible melanoma vaccine it is studying with pharmaceutical giant Merck fared well in a small study of patients who had the cancer surgically removed. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a recent landmark discovery, archaeologists recently discovered a cache of 2,200-year-old silver coins near the Dead Sea, dating from the period of Antiochus IV, the same one who initiated the decrees against the Jews during the Chanukah period. The coins are the first physical proof that Jews fled to the Judean […]