NEW YORK (VINnews) — The following email was submitted to VINnews by one of our readers: Today is Isru Chag, a day we often look back at the memories we created during the last eight days. Memories with children and grandchildren, memories of a beautiful Hallel in Shul sung with friends and family, memories of […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis got to see their Supreme Court in action live, complete with face masks for justices and attorneys amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a pilot program launched Thursday making some proceedings public, the court heard petitions against the digital tracking of those infected with the coronavirus or ordered to self-quarantine due to […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s governor on Friday gave the green light for some beaches and parks to reopen if it can be done safely, and north Florida beaches became among the first to allow allow beach-goers to return since closures because of the coronavirus. Mayor Lenny Curry said Duval County beaches were reopening Friday […]

TEL AVIV (VINnews) — In the wake of the secular protest against prime minister Netanyahu in which a thousand people gathered in Tel Aviv Thursday night, Israeli secular journalist Guy Lehrer posted on his Twitter page a call for allowing religious people to conduct minyanim while maintaining social distance guidelines. Lehrer wrote that “originally we […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — As a child in Hungary, Arie Even survived the Holocaust by taking shelter along with his mother and brother after his father was shipped to a notorious concentration camp. Even’s well-connected grandfather found them refuge in a Swiss-protected home in Budapest before they were rushed to another shelter, under the cover of […]

NEW YORK (AP) – While many Americans are filled with fear, Melissa Ackison says the coronavirus pandemic has filled her with anger. The stay-at-home orders are government overreach, the conservative Ohio state Senate candidate says, and the labeling of some workers as “essential” arbitrary. “It enrages something inside of you,” said Ackison, who was among […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — Lavina D’Souza hasn’t been able to collect her government-supplied anti-HIV medication since the abrupt lockdown of India’s 1.3 billion people last month during the coronavirus outbreak. Marooned in a small city away from her home in Mumbai, the medicine she needs to manage her disease has run out. The 43-year-old is […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — With no approved drugs for the new coronavirus, some people are turning to alternative medicines, often with governments promoting them. This is most evident in India and China, densely populated countries with a deep history and tradition of touting such treatments, and where there’s sometimes limited access to conventional medicine. In […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Bonilla pulled her ambulance up to a set of Bronx row houses. Another ambulance and a fire truck were already there, their flashing lights painting the dark streets an eerie shade of orange. Neighbors gathered on their stoops to watch. Some were sipping wine. “We gotta gown up,” she said […]

Association of Public Health Officials and Society for Protection of Nature issue joint plea; say time in green spaces reduces depression, lowers blood pressure, speeds recovery