TORONTO (AP) — Pandemic restrictions on travel between Canada and the U.S. began to loosen Monday for some Canadians, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said plans to totally reopen the border would be announced over the next few weeks. Canadian citizens and permanent residents who have had a full dose of a coronavirus vaccine approved […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yael Shevach lost her husband Raziel in a 2018 terror attack near her Samarian home of Havat Gilad. Shevach vowed to continue to raise her six children in an atmosphere of joy and not wallow in her bereavement but she did cherish the items she had from her husband, including the wedding […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Sunday reported more than 25,000 new cases of coronavirus infection, the largest number since January, as the country faces a sharp surge over the past month. The national coronavirus task force said 663 patients died, down from the previous day’s 697, which was a record high. The tally of 25,142 […]

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — In a normal, pre-COVID-19 summer, scores of pleasure boats are anchored in Lake Champlain off the Burlington waterfront by July 4, with most of them from Canada. But the anchorage is nearly empty this year because of the ongoing border closure. People who rely on those boaters directly and indirectly hope […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During one of the long filibusters organized by the opposition in an attempt to thwart government legislators this week, MK Orit Struk (Religious Zionism) decided to expose the real colors of deputy speaker of the Knesset Mansour Abbas. Abbas, the leader of the Arab Ra’am party which for the first time is […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities reported a record-breaking 679 new coronavirus deaths on Friday, a fourth day in a row with the highest daily death toll in the pandemic. No plans for a lockdown are being discussed, however, the Kremlin insisted. The previous record, of 672 deaths, was registered on Thursday. Russia has struggled to […]

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization says the world is in “a very dangerous period” of the COVID-19 pandemic, noting the more contagious delta variant is identified in nearly 100 countries. At a press briefing on Friday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the delta variant, first found in India, is continuing to […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Jewish people sometimes take for granted the incredible sacrifice involved in the lives of Jewish career women who have large families. Many of these women are torn between their demanding jobs and their sense of obligation to their families and make herculean efforts to maintain both roles successfully. It is therefore […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Last week a one-year-old baby was rushed to the Hadassah hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, suffering from high fever and shivering. The pediatrician who checked the baby suspected a more serious condition and referred him for a lung x-ray which revealed that the baby had swallowed a large number of magnets. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California broadly reopened its economy barely two weeks ago and since then an especially contagious coronavirus variant has spread among the unvaccinated, a development that has health officials on edge and already has prompted Los Angeles County to strongly recommend everyone resume wearing masks inside. The nation’s most populous state is […]