NEW YORK (JNS) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized on Monday the serving of kosher food at 10 food-distribution sites in Brooklyn and Queens, N.Y., several hours after the Metropolis Council’s Jewish Caucus issued a letter stating that “offering totally free foods to everybody, moreover kosher-preserving New Yorkers, the metropolis is sending […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A Navy hospital ship deployed to New York City to help fight the coronavirus outbreak is no longer needed, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday, expressing confidence that stresses on the hospital system are easing. Cuomo told MSNBC that the USNS Comfort was helpful, but could now be sent elsewhere after being […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed in an Oval Office meeting Tuesday to work to double coronavirus testing in the hard-hit state over the next few weeks. “We will work together to help them secure additional tests,” Trump said. “And we hope that this model will […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will head to the White House on Tuesday as he seeks billions in federal aid and help with coronavirus testing. The Democratic governor and Republican president have alternately praised and criticized each other over their respective responses to the outbreak. The pair traded barbs as recently […]

Highland Mills, NY (VINnews) – A house fire in the Town of Woodbury this morning claimed the life of a retired professor, who has been accused for years of being an anti-Semite. Clyde Magarelli, who had taught sociology for decades at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., lived alone and was the only person in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City won’t allow public events in June, including three of the city’s major annual celebrations: the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Celebrate Israel parade and the Pride parade on its 50th anniversary. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that the events would be canceled or at least postponed, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — As residents at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, began dying in late February from a coronavirus outbreak that would eventually take 43 lives, there was little sign of trouble at the Cobble Hill Health Center, a 360-bed facility in an upscale section of Brooklyn. Its Facebook page posted a cheerful […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus death toll in New York dropped again, a sign that Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday means the state is “on the other side of the plateau” and that ongoing social distancing practices are working to stem the spread of the virus. Cuomo said 507 people died on Saturday, down […]

CHESTNUT RIDGE (VINnews) — Chestnut Ridge resident Chaim Rose has been appointed to the Board of Trustees, making him the first Hasidic Jewish resident to serve on the governing body since 1986 when the village was formed. Rose’s appointment by Mayor Rosario Presti is a symbol of the growing Orthodox Jewish influence in the Ramapo […]

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 […]