NEW YORK (JTA) — The Florida shock radio host and former Newsmax anchor who died of COVID-19 after spending months telling his followers not to get the vaccine was a Jewish man from Queens. The Aug. 4 death of Dick Farrel, who was 65, has made global headlines because his friends said he urged them […]

DERBY LINE, Vermont (AP) — Canada lifted its prohibition on Americans crossing the border to shop, vacation or visit on Monday while the United States is maintaining similar restrictions for Canadians, part of a bumpy return to normalcy from COVID-19 travel bans. U.S. citizens and legal residents must be both fully vaccinated and test negative […]

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are investigating the latest fatal case of a rare tropical disease typically found in South Asia. The unidentified person, who died last month in Georgia, was the fourth U.S. case this year of meliodosis caused by a bacteria that lives in soil and water, the Centers for Disease […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — As the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps across the United States, a growing number of colleges and universities are requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for students to attend in-person classes. But the new mandate has opened the door for those opposed to getting the vaccine to cheat the […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) – The US Centres for Disease Control is advising Americans to stop traveling to Israel after giving the country its highest risk warning for Covid-19. On Monday, the CDC raised Israel’s Covid-19 risk for travelers to level 4, its highest risk level.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will require members of the U.S. military to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. That deadline could be pushed up if the vaccine receives final FDA approval or infection rates continue to rise. “I will seek the president’s approval to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Holocaust survivor Moshe Etzion, the father of Ze’ev Etzion who was killed by rocket fire from Gaza during the 2014 Protective Edge campaign, took his own life while at the grave of his son on the Hebrew anniversary of his death – Sunday, 30 Av. Ze’ev (Zevik) Etzion, Moshe Etzion’s oldest child, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jewish world mourns the loss of Rabbi Avrohom Dovid Auerbach, the rabbi and head of the rabbinical court in Tiberias and the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach Zts’l. Rabbi Auerbach was born 86 years ago in the Shaarei Chesed neighborhood of Jerusalem and studied in the Etz Chaim cheder and […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The three Jewish members of the We Were Never Lost team which sought to document the life of little-known Jewish communities in Africa never imagined that they would be abducted by the Nigerian government and accused of subversive political activities. Here is the story of Rudy Rochman, a Jewish-Israel activist, film […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Ready to party at one of South Beach’s most glamorous nightclubs? Then roll up your sleeves because these shots won’t get you buzzed. LIV is offering free COVID-19 vaccines outside the Miami club where high rollers spend up to $20,000 just for a table. The start-studded nightclub, where Super Bowl […]