FORT LAUDERDALE (VINnews) — JNS) A Chabad center in Florida conducted a free drive-through mask distribution and handed out more than 50,000 masks to help people stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., began operating the giveaway at about noon on Friday. The masks were sponsored by […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Dr. Abed Zahalka, an Arab ICU doctor at the Maayanei Hayeshua hospital in Bnei Brak, Israel, was conscripted for an unusual mission this week: Bringing a Torah scroll wrapped in a tallis into the coronavirus ward for the use of Orthodox Jewish patients. Zahalka has served for many years in the […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) — President Trump claimed on Saturday that states have been unfairly targeting Christians over other faiths, like Islam. Trump’s complaint stemmed from some states not allowing religious gatherings due to COVID-19 restrictions, but the president isn’t convinced that Muslims will be subjected to the same rules during Ramadan. “You know I just spoke […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Former Brooklyn City Councilman and New York Supreme Court judge Noach Dear has passed away from coronavirus at the age of 67. In 1975, Dear received both a B.S. from Brooklyn College and a M.S.W. from the Yu Wurzweiler School of Social Work. He received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School […]

WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence says 150,000 coronavirus tests are now being conducted daily in the U.S. but suggested that governors and not the federal government were to blame for numbers not being higher. Pence tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that, “if states around the country will activate all of the laboratories that are […]

BERLIN (AP) — Pressures mounted Sunday on governments to ease the economic pain of coronavirus lockdowns after protests from those fearing for their livelihoods, and authorities responded with a wide range of possible dates and solutions and a few emphatic “not yets.” Shutdowns that began in China in late January and spread to Europe, the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Journalist Sivan Rahav-Meir told the story of Moshe Grunwald, a Holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz and the death marches but passed away in Brooklyn a short while ago from the coronavirus. His family was told that the funeral would take place at ten in the morning and a few relatives came […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Dr. Stuart Ditchek, who has been on the front lines of the fight against unsafe practices amid the COVID-19 pandemic, has released a new pertinent message. In the audio message below, Dr. Ditchek details the horrible destruction he is witnessing firsthand in the hospitals, and pleas with the public to stop […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) On Saturday night, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced that the strict lockdown imposed in Israel to prevent the spread of coronavirus would begin to be lifted Sunday. Some economic restrictions have been lifted, with the number of employees allowed to return to work increasing from 15% to 30%. Netanyahu added that hi-tech […]

NEW YORK (AP) – The daily increase in coronavirus deaths in New York state has dropped under 550 for the first time in over two weeks as hospitalizations continue to decline, Cuomo said Saturday. But the crisis is far from over: Hospitals are still reporting nearly 2,000 new COVID-19 patients per day, and nursing homes […]