NASSAU COUNTY (VINnews) — Newly appointed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has decided to leave the issue of school mask mandates in the hands of the schools, in direct defiance of recent guidance from New York Gov. Hochul. Blakeman signed three executive orders on Thursday in regard to masking, with one of them handing control […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — According to a press release from the Chaim V’Chesed organization, Israel’s Health Ministry Director General Nachman Ash announced this afternoon that Israel’s so-called Red country list will be abolished. This move will take effect tonight at midnight. The new ruling means that fully vaccinated tourists (or recovered by EDUC standards) will be […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Georgia authorities have launched an investigation into  seemingly systematic ballot harvesting which occurred during the state’s 2020 general election and the runoff election for the U.S. senate on Jan.5 2021, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed Tuesday. Georgia law strictly prohibits third-party activists from picking up and delivering ballots on […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Jew from Brooklyn was badly wounded in a car crash this past Sunday. The accident took place in a small random town in Virginia, yet amazingly, within a short time, devoted Hatzalah members from New York were at his bedside. The Williamsburg man wrote a letter of gratitude which starts […]

NORTH BRUNSWICK (VINnews) — Students and faculty of Cheder Menachem of North Brunswick, NJ found themselves on the street on Wednesday morning, after being escorted out of the building and locked out. Cheder Menachem uses the facilities of Congregation B’nai Tikvah, a conservative temple located on Finnegans Ln in North Brunswick Township. On Wednesday morning, […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A large house fire in Philadelphia early Wednesday caused fatalities, according to authorities, who declined to say how many people died. Firefighters and police responded to the fire at a three-story rowhouse in the city’s Fairmount neighborhood around 6:40 a.m. and found flames coming from the second-floor windows, fire officials said. The […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Knesset’s Public Security Committee held a special discussion Tuesday in the wake of the abuse cases revealed in the chareidi community. During the meeting police revealed a special program they are implementing designed to improve the trust between rabbis and police and facilitate more effective treatment of abuse cases within the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A father of two sons who tragically perished in the Meron disaster on Lag B’Omer, says that allowing only one bonfire at this year’s celebration would be a grave mistake. On Tuesday, Rabbi Meir Nachman Elchadad testified before the State Commission on the Meron Disaster. One of the topics he discussed was […]

JERUSALEM (Israel Hayom) — A record-breaking number of Israelis tested positive for the coronavirus in the current infection wave, according to Health Ministry data published on Tuesday morning. Of the 197,402 Israelis screened for the virus in the past 24 hours, 10,644 (5.39%) tested positive. The reproduction rate, which refers to the number of people […]