PARIS (AP) — France’s prime minister tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, hours after returning from a visit to neighboring Belgium and just as France is seeing a nationwide resurgence of infections, according to his office. The positive test also means that his Belgian counterpart Alexander De Croo and four other minister immediately went into […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a spontaneous gesture of courage and strength in the face of evil terror, hundreds of youths converged Sunday night on the scene of the dastardly murder of Eli Kay HyD and sang songs of faith and hope. The youths walked from Jaffa Gate through the Arab market to the place -just […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a discussion with reporters at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, Rabbi Zevi Katzenellenbogen reenacted the scene of Sunday’s terror attack. “I left the plaza of the Western Wall while still wearing Tefillin and entered Hashalshelet street. I heard a burst of fire. Within seconds, as I was trying to work out what […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — It was during the nineties, Yom Yerushalayim and the Kolel where we were studying for Semicha wished to mark the event. After all, Jerusalem and especially the Western Wall have not been in Jewish hands for 2000 years. We invited Rabbi Shlomo Fisher, a Dayan in the Jerusalem rabbinical court together with […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Scores of Mexican adolescents were bused to California on Thursday to get vaccinated against the coronavirus as efforts get underway across Mexico to get shots in the arms of teens. Mexico has resisted vaccinating minors ages 12 to 17, in part because the government focused on older adults believed to be […]

The U.S. government will pay drugmaker Pfizer $5.29 billion for 10 million treatment courses of its potential COVID-19 treatment if regulators authorize it. Pfizer asked the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to authorize emergency use of the experimental pill, which has been shown to significantly cut the rate of hospitalizations and deaths among people […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Six years ago a terror attack took place in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Sukkot holiday. A young couple walking with their children in the Muslim quarter were attacked by a knife-wielding terrorist. The husband, Aharon Benita, was mortally injured and his wife Adele was moderately injured and cried out […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republicans approved a sweeping bill Wednesday to hobble coronavirus vaccine mandates in businesses, rejecting claims that they were sacrificing public health to hand Gov. Ron DeSantis a win in his fight against White House virus rules. Lawmakers in GOP-controlled statehouse expedited the measure, along with a package of virus bills, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in one year, a never-before-seen milestone that health officials say is tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and a more dangerous drug supply. Overdose deaths have been rising for more than two decades, accelerated in the past two years and, according to new data […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu was asked what to do with the books of author Chaim Walder at present? Rabbi Eliyahu answered that the matter has not yet reached Beis Din and therefore there is still a reasonable doubt whether he is guilty. However there is no doubt that there is a […]