WASHINGTON (AP) — Social restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus could have saved lives if they’d been started earlier, and when they’re eased new cases are certain to arise, said the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, seeming to draw the ire of President Donald Trump. Trump, who has been […]

VLADIVOSTOCK, RUSSIA (VINnews) — Chaim Goldberg, who was reputedly the world’s oldest Jewish war veteran, passed away at the age of 106 in Vladivostock, Eastern Russia. Goldberg was a World War Two veteran who had driven a tank in a Russian armored brigade and fought the Nazis. Goldberg had been sick in recent months and […]

HOD HASHARON, ISRAEL (VINnews) — Yehonatan Dor-On is a bored high-tech professional stuck at home due to COVID-19. Dor-On, a web developer at CyberX, sought to find ways to help medical staff battling the virus and discovered an online group called COVID-19 Open Source, which was sharing models that could assist medical staff. Yehonatan told […]

NEW YORK (AP) – In its best days, in its highest moments, New York City is dizzying. Times Square glows. Penn Station pulses. Wall Street teems with the ambitious. The highways are jammed with trucks and taxis and Ubers and Lyfts, transporting the life of the city — its people, its goods — to and […]

NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – A group of Chasidic men have spent hours setting up and delivering tablets to hospitalized coronavirus patients in the New York City area, allowing them to stay connected to their families despite a strict no-visitors-allowed policy put in place to limit the spread of the deadly pandemic. A volunteer who […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Under the continued and developing guidance of our daas Torah, Rav Yechezkel Roth shlita, we wish to publicize an update regarding our Gmach Nichumim shiva services. In light of the unprecedented number of aveilim that will start shiva Motzei Acharon shel Pesach, Thursday night, April 16, 2020, we ask everyone to […]

BOSTON (AP) — Humans can’t always recognize each other in face masks, so imagine the confusion that wild animals in captivity must feel. At the New England Aquarium in Boston, workers who feed and train Atlantic harbor seals have been donning masks as a safeguard to avoid the unlikely scenario of unknowingly infecting the animals […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Journalist Nir Dvori published on his Twitter page a picture taken by a policeman patrolling the streets of Jerusalem on Seder night at a time when there was a total curfew and no people were permitted to walk on the streets. The picture, which touched many people due to its poetic effect, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump asserted Monday that he is the ultimate decision-maker for determining how and when to relax the nation’s social distancing guidelines as he grows anxious to reopen the coronavirus-stricken country as soon as possible. Governors and local leaders, who have instituted mandatory restrictions that have the force of law, have […]

NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s death toll from coronavirus topped 10,000, with hospitals still seeing 2,000 new patients a day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday. The state tallied 671 new deaths on Sunday. It was the first time in a week the daily toll dipped below 700. Still, the governor […]