Month March 2020
The coronavirus outbreak could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans, the U.S. government’s top infectious-disease expert warned on Sunday as family members described wrenching farewells through hospital windows with dying loved ones. Faced with that grim projection and the possibility even… Continue Reading →
LE PECQ, France (AP) — Of a world in coronavirus turmoil, they may know little or nothing. Submariners stealthily cruising the ocean deeps, purposefully shielded from worldly worries to encourage undivided focus on their top-secret missions of nuclear deterrence, may… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com One of the fundamentals of both Pesach and l’havdil the magaifa of Corona is the idea that we can only conclude – Ain Od Milvado – there is nothing beside Hashem. Rav Chaim Kanievsky… Continue Reading →
The post Urgent Pre-Pesach Advisory, With New Florida Coronavirus Restrictions in Place appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: CDC Director: Zika Travel Advisory to Florida Could Last a Year CDC Lifts Zika Travel Advisory for One Florida Zone Interministerial… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — For weeks, President Donald Trump carved out a trail of groundless assurances about the coronavirus pandemic as health officials, governors and local officials sounded alarm about what was coming — and already here. That sunlit trail now… Continue Reading →
El Al Chairman Eli Defes said in an interview on Sunday with Kan News that El Al could collapse within weeks if the Israeli government doesn’t provide urgent financial assistance to its national airline. An Israel Hayom report said that… Continue Reading →
A Navy hospital ship with 1,000 beds is scheduled to arrive Monday morning in New York Harbor to help relieve the coronavirus crisis gripping the city’s hospitals. The USNS Comfort,… Read more » The post Navy Hospital Ship Set to… Continue Reading →
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — When Nima Amraa returned to the Gaza Strip from neighboring Egypt earlier this month, she was surprised to learn she was being placed in a makeshift quarantine center set up by the ruling Hamas… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Police entered Meah Shearim and arrested people who were congregating in public buildings and violating public health directives:
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday that “reckless remarks” by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made it clear that Washington has no intention of resuming nuclear talks, and warned that it is now compelled to pay… Continue Reading →
WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (JTA/Sari Kahn) — I’ve been preparing for the COVID-19 pandemic for the past year. No, I am not an alarmist, prophet or a hoarder. I am a 39-year-old mother of four young children — and I am… Continue Reading →
I just wanted to share something that I heard last night. I was listening to an interview with an emergency room nurse. The interviewer asked the nurse how the health care workers are preparing for the very real possibility that… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – The attorney at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in New Rochelle, New York has been released from the hospital, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. Cuomo did not identify Lawrence Garbuz by name during his… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Despite the fact that most of the Chareidi public have internalized the inherent dangers in gathering even outdoors for minyan and maintain strict social distancing in other places, there are still people who ignore the health ministry… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Due to the current situation, schools/ Yeshivas are closed. What Will Happen To Our Torah Learning? We Cannot Stop Learning Torah. Our Programs Cater To Torah Learning Skills On All Levels And Ages From The Comfort Of Your Own… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (THE CONVERSATION/AP/Bethany Teachman University of Virginia) You have a choice to make when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic. Do you treat this time as an insurmountable threat that pits you against everyone else? This option entails making… Continue Reading →
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) announced on Sunday night that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s adviser on Chareidi affairs, Rivka Paluch, was diagnosed with the coronavirus, which she apparently contracted from her husband who tested positive for the virus after visiting… Continue Reading →
The Agricultural Ministry opened a quota for egg imports that are exempt from customs duties from the European Union in January. In light of the coronavirus crisis, the ministry increased… Read more » The post Agriculture Ministry Facilitating Increased Egg… Continue Reading →
According to a report in Israeli media outlets today, the Arab world has been hit hard by the Covid-19 Coronavirus. In Iran, according to stats published by the regime, the virus has already infected over 35,000 people with the death toll… Continue Reading →
SALFORD, ENGLAND (VINnews) — A 108-year-old British woman who survived the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu succumbed to the coronavirus, according to a report by the Guardian newspaper. Hilda Churchill died in a Salford nursing home on Saturday, just hours after testing… Continue Reading →
WUHAN, China (AP) — Shopkeepers in the city at the center of China’s virus outbreak were reopening Monday but customers were scarce after authorities lifted more of the anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for… Continue Reading →