NEW YORK (VINnews) — It’s bad news for NYC restaurant owners and their patrons. Even as NYC begins to partially reopen, as far as indoor dining is concerned, it’s a no go according to the Mayor. Reopening indoor dining is something that would require the city to be ready for a “huge step forward,” said […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s new plan to control the coronavirus pandemic places restrictions on cities based on their infection rates and includes special rules for synagogues during the High Holiday. Under the plan approved Sunday night by government ministers, schools will open even in “red” communities — those with the highest rate of infections. The […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic Monday as the government urged hot spot Victoria state to announce its plans to lift a lockdown on the country’s second-largest city. Victoria’s health department reported 41 deaths from COVID-19 and 73 new infections in the latest 24-hour period. While the deaths were […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an interview with the Yisrael Hayom newspaper, Rabbi Yaakov Jan, the rabbi of Uman in the Ukraine warned of utter chaos being caused by the prohibition against arriving in Uman for Rosh Hashana. Rabbi Jan cited the dilemma of Breslav chasidim, since on the one hand Rabbi Nachman entreated his followers […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — When the Breslov chasidim announced that they intended to demonstrate Saturday night and walk through Jerusalem towards the prime minister’s residence, protesting Netanyahu’s inaction (or maybe his attempts to foil) on flights to Uman, it promised to be a historic night. Left-wing demonstrators and radicals are already entrenched outside the prime residence […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The families of the three teenagers kidnapped and murdered in the summer of 2014 have submitted a 520 million NIS ($155 million) lawsuit against the Hamas terrorist organization for its involvement in the murders of their children. Naftali Frankel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists while […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) — As guests left the Republican National Convention Thursday night, they were accosted and harassed by Black Lives Matter protesters. In one instance, two men were surrounded by a masked mob shouting: “Racists! racists!” while filming them on their phones. Other prominent guests were heckled and cursed as they made their way from […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The credibility of two of the nation’s leading public health agencies is under fire this week after controversial decisions that outside experts say smack of political pressure from President Donald Trump as he attempts to move past the devastating toll of the coronavirus ahead of the November election. The head of the […]

ODESSA (VINnews) — Ukraine has decided peremptorily to prevent the pilgrimage of Breslav chasidim to Uman by closing its borders until the end of September. A number of Breslav chasidim decided to try and preempt the closure -due to start on the 29th of August – by leaving immediately on a flight to the Ukraine. […]

LONDON (VINnews) — A quick-witted 5-year-old boy saved his mother yesterday after she lost consciousness due to a diabetic coma. Josh Chapman of Telford in Shropshire, England, was playing with his 18-month-old younger brother Harry when their mother Caroline collapsed suddenly. Josh, realizing that his mother was suffering from a diabetic reaction, first tried to […]