JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As the coronavirus cases and number of sick people have dropped sharply in Israel, government ministers continue to discuss frameworks which would allow a return of different elements of the economy to normal without seeing yet another spike in COVID-19 cases. The health ministry wishes to go from stage to stage based […]

IRINGA, TANZANIA (VINnews) — Letty McMaster was just 18 years old when she set out to spend a month of her gap year volunteering in a Tanzanian orphanage. However the experience was to change her life immeasurably. After seeing the difficult conditions suffered by the orphans, who suffered physical and mental abuse in the orphanage, […]

MICRONESIA (VINnews) — Three men marooned on a tiny Pacific island in the Micronesian archipelago were rescued after a giant SOS sign they wrote in the sand was spotted from above. The three has set out from the Puluwat atoll in Micronesia in a small 23-foot boat intending to reach the Pulap atoll situated 27 […]

Phoenix, AZ (VINNews) — A heartrending video taken in Pheonix, Arizona shows a child being thrown to safety from the third floor of a burning building. The child was caught by Phillip Banks, a retired US marine and former college football player. The mother of the child who was severely burnt when she threw her […]

LONDON (VINnews) —When Suryakant “Suri” Nathwani returned from the hospital where doctors had refused to place him on a ventilator, the reserved 81-year-old grabbed his son’s hand and pleaded to be allowed to die at home. “He said, ‘Please promise me one thing: If I’m going to go, I’m going to go here. Do not […]

BERN, SWITZERLAND (VINnews) — Swiss health authorities have announced that children under the age of 10 can hug their grandparents again without fear of infecting them with coronavirus. The change of advice came after Swiss scientists concluded that young children pose no risk of infection from Covid-19 because they do not have the “receptors” targeted by […]

BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE (VINnews) — Dr John Wright related to the BBC a moving love stories from the COVID-19 wards of Bradford Royal Infirmary –  about a patient whose last wish was to marry his fiancee, which he succeeded in doing just hours before he died. This is a time of such heightened emotions – of […]

PARIS, FRANCE (VINnews) — 98-year-old Dr. Christian Chenay is living proof that age is just a number. Despite his advanced age and the raging COVID-19 virus which has claimed the lives of more than 20,000 people in France, Dr. Chenay continues to treat his patients- both virtually and in the case of a nursing home […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times “Hey, I thought you are keeping the first Zman.” “I am.” “So, you can’t listen to that – if you are keeping the first Zman.” “What?  It’s Yom Tov! You are not allowed to visibly mourn on Yom Tov.  So, I can listen to it.” […]