NEW YORK (VINnews/Rabbi Levi Welton) — “Stay home. Save lives.” These words blinked on the overhead electronic traffic sign as I sped down the highway. As a medical professional treating patients in the U.S. epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, my work is considered “essential business.” With the infection rate doubling every 3 days, many New […]

NEW YORK (AP) — In New York City, they’ve started dismantling basketball hoops to prevent people from gathering in parks and playing. In Lakewood, New Jersey, police broke up a wedding being held in violation of a ban on large gatherings. And in Austin, Texas, officers are encouraging people to call a hotline to snitch […]

NEW YORK (AP) — One nurse died from coronavirus at a New York City hospital where staffers were so frustrated with dwindling supplies that they posed in scrub gowns made from garbage bags. An emergency room doctor believed he may have had the virus for days before he finally became too ill to come in. […]

ROCKLAND COUNTY (VINnews) — Rockland County legislator Aaron Wieder released a video on Thursday, in which he calls out the Rockland County Health Department for issuing a violation against the Central UTA school for being open, when the school is in fact closed. If this was not already enough, says Wieder, Rockland County Executive Ed […]

MILAN (JTA) – At least twice a day, Micol Naccache breaks down in tears over what the coronavirus is doing to her city of Milan and its Jewish community. A high school teacher and mother of two, Naccache describes herself as “an optimistic person.” But she is struggling to stay positive following the death of one of […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he will travel to Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday to see off a 1,000-bed Navy hospital ship that will relieve the pressure on New York hospitals dealing with coronavirus patients. Trump says he told New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo the ship will arrive in New York Harbor on Monday. Trump […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has the biggest megaphone, but it’s governors and local officials who will decide when to begin reopening their economies after shuttering them to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The Constitution largely gives states the authority to regulate their own affairs. Trump has set Easter, April 12, […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Army leaders said Thursday that two field hospitals are on their way to New York City and will be able to begin treating patients at the Javits Center on Monday. The Army combat units from Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Campbell, Kentucky, will include as many as 700 personnel and almost 300 […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After a rollercoaster week in Israeli politics, Israel has gone from being a parliament without a government and governed by the judiciary to a government independent of it’s parliament- in just 24 mad hours. On Wednesday evening, after Chief Justice Chayut ruled that Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein’s resignation could not prevent the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Despite increasing the stringent regulations on the lockdown, Israel continues to count increasing numbers of coronavirus patients and the death toll has also begun to mount, with three more Israelis dying Thursday from the deadly virus, bringing the total number of dead to 8 ,all of whom died in the past week. […]