FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — A fourth member of a New Jersey family died Thursday from COVID-19. Vincent Fusco died Thursday morning at a hospital in Freehold, NJ.com reported. His death was confirmed by Roseann Paradiso Fodera, an attorney and relative. Fusco’s mother, Grace Fusco, died Wednesday night, hours after another son, Carmine Fusco, died in […]

NEW YORK (THE CONVERSATION-AP) On March 18, President Donald Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act into law. The legislation is an emergency intervention to provide paid leave and other support to millions of workers sidelined by school closures, quarantines and caregiving. An obvious question you’re probably wondering is, “How will it affect me?” […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — When it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic would reach Israel, Elli Rosenberg was one of a small number of medical professionals at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva to answer a call for volunteers to treat the sick. Rosenberg, a clinical immunologist who works as an internist at Soroka, now runs […]

JERUSALEM (Israel Hayom) — Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency was able to deliver 100,000 new coronavirus test kits collected overseas to local labs overnight Wednesday, Channel 12 News reported Thursday. In the next few days, the Mossad will facilitate the delivery of 4 million additional kits. Mossad director Yossi Cohen is said to be personally overseeing […]

LAKEWOOD (VINnews) — Dr. Rich Roberts is both a distinguished medical doctor and a shrewd investor. In a video released today he discusses the social and economic ramifications of the COVID-19 outbreak and offers his advice on how we can recuperate and even gain financial stability despite the economic downturn which the Coronavirus will inevitably […]

CHICAGO (VINnews) — The Rosh Yeshiva of the well known Telshe Chicago, Rabbi Shmuel Yeshaya Keller, has tested positive for Coronavirus. The news was officially shared by the Yeshiva on Thursday in an email. In the email, the Yeshiva instructs anyone who was within 6 feet of Rabbi Keller for 5 to 7 minutes, anytime […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — A strange wedding ceremony took place in the Bnei Brak cemetery this week, with the dead being the majority of those participating in the wedding. Due to government regulations prohibiting gatherings, many weddings have been restricted to small numbers of participants and possibly the families thought that in a cemetery they […]

LONDON (JTA) – As the coronavirus forced the shutdown of many synagogues in the United States and beyond last Shabbat, many British Jews celebrated the day of rest as usual. At the time, their government was taking a far less restrictive approach even as the leaders of other countries shut down schools and urgently warned […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Netanyahu said on Thursday that even with the steps taken so far to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, Israel has only managed to “slowed down the pace of the spread of the virus, but the virus continues to spread.” He said that deaths in Israel are expected and warns that “many […]

LAKEWOOD (VINnews) — Not all Yeshivos have followed the mandatory guidelines to close their Yeshivos. At least one Yeshiva in Lakewood has 150 Bochrim sitting and learning, defying all instructions from doctors and local, state, and federal officials. The students of Mesivta of Lakewood, under direct guidance of their Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yosef (Yossel) Burstein […]