Month March 2020
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public for just one thing: Stop drinking… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — As an emergency medicine physician in New York City, Dr. Kamini Doobay has always known that death is part of the territory when trying to care for the city’s sickest. But it hasn’t always been like… Continue Reading →
DETROIT (AP) — A truck collided with a pedestrian bridge early Friday in Detroit, sending a portion of the span onto a freeway and blocking traffic along part of the heavily traveled thoroughfare, authorities said. No one was injured in… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials say one man was killed and more than a dozen people were injured when a fire broke out on a subway train early Friday. A New York Police Department spokesman who described… Continue Reading →
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Avrohom Eliezer Gordon ZT”L from COVID-19. He was a Rebbe for nearly 50 years at Yeshiva Bais Dovid in Monsey before moving to Lakewood recently. He was Niftar on Thursday… Continue Reading →
See video below. See also other coronavirus-related videos from Dr. Roverts here and here.
Two more Israelis passed away on Friday morning of the coronavirus, a 76-year-old woman and 93-year-old man, raising Israel’s death toll to 10. There are 3,035 Israelis diagnosed with the coronavirus, with 49 in serious condition and 60 in moderate… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio renewed his call for help from the federal government Friday as COVID-19 cases strained the city’s hospital system. “When the president says the state of New York doesn’t need… Continue Reading →
Dear TLS, It’s not easy for me to write you this email, but I’m doing it for the benefit of all of us. I’m getting the feeling that you’re under-reporting on the virus compared to the aggressive stance the press… Continue Reading →
Provided by Harav Moshe Hamburger, Lakewood Bais Hora’ah. As more people around the world are becoming infected by the new coronavirus, there has been a spike in people reporting a loss of smell. If you are one of them and… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) —British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said Friday, while the number of infections in the United States surged to the most in the world and Spain announced a record number of virus… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — More than 500 of the latest cases diagnosed with coronavirus in Israel were people who were quarantined by the Israeli Shin Bet which used its surveillance technology to determine which people were closest to those infected previously… Continue Reading →
The FBI won’t give up on “finding out what happened” to former agent Robert Levinson, who the U.S. government believes died in the custody of the Iranians after vanishing more than a decade ago, according to an email FBI Director… Continue Reading →
Israel Security Service (Shin Bet) claimed on Thursday that they had identified 500 people who tested positive for being carriers of Covid-19 Coronavirus. The 500 patients were identified by the organization’s controversial mass-surveillance-program. According to the statement printed in numerous… Continue Reading →
The Israeli town of Alfei Menashe, located on the western edge of the Shomron, right near the Palestinian town of Qalqilya, has closed its gates to outsiders as of Thursday morning, amid fears of the spread of the Covid-19 Coronavirus…. Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com Tools are an absolute necessity in every profession, to both succeed in that profession, as well as to get through life. For the Corona Virus – that is exactly what we need to help… Continue Reading →
A newborn boy, whose mother is hospitalized in Hadassah Ein Kerem for having contracted the Covid-19 coronavirus, was born without contracting the disease. He then had his bris milah in the hospital with the former Chief Rabbi of Israel HaRav… Continue Reading →
The newly established U.S. Space Force launched its first national security satellite Thursday with a leaner staff because of the coronavirus pandemic. “Nothing stops the space launch mission!” the 45th Space Wing tweeted from Cape Canaveral. The approximately $1 billion… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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