JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A social media page silhouetting Israelis who go out of their way to help others in unique ways has published a number of moving stories recently. One story concerned a bag containing a large amount of money. Chaim Mualem, the person who lost the bag, tells the story: “I forgot a bag […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Data from the 2020 Census Bureau which have just been released show B’H a significant increase over the previous 2010 Census in the number of people in the major religious Jewish communities in the Northeast of the United States. The data included a sharp increase of 45% in the population of […]

MIAMI (AP) — A young mother had just celebrated her first wedding anniversary and was one of six members of a Jacksonville church to die over a 10-day span. Another Florida woman had just given birth to her first child, but was only able to hold the newborn girl for a few moments before dying. […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s governor said Friday she will send up to 1,500 National Guard troops to hospitals around the state to assist healthcare workers who are being pushed to the brink by a surge of COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant. Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, said the first group of 500 […]

NEW YORK (VINnews/JNS) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the United States is “deeply concerned” by legislation passed by the Polish parliament earlier in the day barring Holocaust survivors and their descendants from reclaiming property seized by the country’s communist regime. Blinken called on Polish President Andrzej Duda not to […]

HAWAII (AP) – The COVID-19 surge that is sending hospitalizations to all-time highs in parts of the South is also clobbering states like Hawaii and Oregon that were once seen as pandemic success stories. After months in which they kept cases and hospitalizations at manageable levels, they are watching progress slip away as record numbers […]

LONDON (AP) — As Britain enjoyed a summertime lull in COVID-19 cases, the nation’s attention turned to the end of pandemic-related restrictions and holidays in the sun. But scientists are warning the public not to be complacent, saying high levels of infection in the community are likely to lead to another spike in cases this […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Republicans are battling school districts in their own states’ urban, heavily Democratic areas over whether students should be required to mask up as they head back to school — reigniting ideological divides over mandates even as the latest coronavirus surge ravages the reddest, most unvaccinated parts of the nation. Republican Gov. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The son of a prominent rebbe in the US and a number of his entourage have been arrested at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport on suspicion of forging coronavirus tests, according to a report by Kikar Hashabat. According to the report, they were arrested for having allegedly forged the paperwork of their coronavirus […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid inaugurated the Israeli Liaison Office in Rabat, Morocco during the first visit by a senior member of the Israeli government since the renewal of ties between Israel and Morocco in December 2020. Together with Moroccan Deputy Foreign Minister Mohcine Jazouli, Lapid cut the ribbon to the office, […]