JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Shalom Arush, the head of the Chut Shel Chesed yeshiva and one of the leading Breslav rabbis, told Kikar Hashabat that there was a framework in place which could enable flights to Uman. Rabbi Arush spoke recently with prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the wake of the comments by coronavirus project […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized the first rapid coronavirus test that doesn’t need any special computer equipment to get results. The 15-minute test from Abbott Laboratories will sell for $5, giving it a competitive edge over similar tests that need to be popped into a small machine. The size […]

NEW YORK (JTA) – If New York City’s mayor won’t stop weddings in Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods from happening, the state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said Wednesday that he will. “If the mayor is not doing any enforcement actions, then the state will,” Cuomo said at a news conference, according to the New York Post. “We’ve had […]

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials have sparked a wave of confusion after posting guidelines that coronavirus testing is not necessary for people who have been in close contact with infected people. The new guidance was posted earlier this week on the website of a federal agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. […]

MOSCOW (AP) — The mayor of Moscow invited residents Wednesday to join trials of a coronavirus vaccine that Russia approved for use earlier this month in what officials described as a breakthrough on par with the Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957. The world’s first vaccine against the coronavirus to receive […]

PETACH TIKVA (VINnews) — A 39-year-old Chareidi man was critically injured in a terror attack Wednesday morning at the Segula junction in Petach Tikva. An Arab from Samaria working in Israel brandished a knife, stabbed the Chareidi man in the chest and tried to escape. A bystander who had a metal rod chased after the […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In a rare display of urgency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held his third high-level political conference in as many weeks, where he raised alarm about the nation’s coronavirus response and a typhoon forecast to hit the country early Thursday. During an enlarged meeting of the Politburo of the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans newly diagnosed with the coronavirus is falling — a development experts credit at least partly to increased wearing of masks — even as the outbreak continues to claim nearly 1,000 lives in the U.S. each day. About 43,000 new cases have been reported daily over the past […]

KIEV (VINnews) — In a Zoom meeting marking the eve of the Jewish new year, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky , who himself is Jewish, met with leading local rabbis. Some of the rabbis participated physically in the president’s office, while others were on a video feed. B’Chadrei Charedim reports that the meeting opened with shofar […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Responding to an outcry from medical experts, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn on Tuesday apologized for overstating the life-saving benefits of treating COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma. Scientists and medical experts have been pushing back against the claims about the treatment since President Donald Trump’s announcement on Sunday that the […]