JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Innumerous acts of selfless kindness are performed in the various COVID-19 departments around Israel by the devoted staff who risk their health time and again to administer treatment to patients. However the staff cannot always deal with the psychological effects of the disease on patients, who suffer tremendously from being sequestered in […]

TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced stricter restrictions on travelers in response to new, likely more contagious variants of the novel coronavirus — including making it mandatory for travelers to quarantine in a hotel at their own expense when they arrive in Canada and suspending airline service to Mexico and all […]

BEIJING (AP) — After a two-week quarantine, the real work can begin. Maybe. A World Health Organization team of researchers emerged from their hotel Thursday for the first time since their arrival in the central Chinese city of Wuhan to start searching for clues into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The visit has been […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After a very tough week for Israeli chareidim in which the media attacked the entire community repeatedly as a minority of chareidim continued to open schools and to clash with police, it is heartwarming to note the continuous acts of kindness initiated by members of the community towards their fellow Israelis. A […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Despite the negative media attention given to Bnei Brak in the wake of the rioting which followed aggressive police action to enforce health regulations in the city, there are still people who love and respect the residents of the town and realize that their name has been wrongly tarnished by the actions […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Data released by Israel’s Ministry of Health and one of its top health-care provides indicate that the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer is proving to be highly effective in providing immunity from the virus. According to the Ministry of Health, a total of 317 out of 715,425 Israelis who were fully vaccinated (at least […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — One of Joe Biden’s first acts as president was to issue an executive order cancelling the Keystone XL oil and gas pipeline project approved by his predecessor. The pipeline was to carry millions of gallons of oil from Alberta, Canada to refineries in the US. It would have transported up to […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — States are loosening their coronavirus restrictions on restaurants and other businesses because of improved infection and hospitalization numbers but are moving gradually and cautiously, in part because of the more contagious variant taking hold in the U.S. While the easing could cause case rates to rise, health experts say it can […]

(January 27, 2021 / JNS) In the wake of the Abraham Accords and in honor of International Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27, individuals from the group Sharaka held an event to memorialize victims of the Holocaust and to promote an action plan for Holocaust awareness and combating anti-Semitism. According to Sharaka (“partnership” in Arabic), […]

VIENNA (AP) — Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia got their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine Wednesday, an acknowledgement of past suffering and a tribute to resilience 76 years after Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. More than 400 Austrian survivors, most in their 80s or 90s, were […]