BERGEN COUNTY, NJ (JTA) – The Rabbinical Council of Bergen County in New Jersey, in conjunction with local synagogues and day schools, just adopted sweeping regulations designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus locally. All schools are closed and playdates between families are barred. Community members have been told to work from home. Synagogues […]

FLATBUSH (VINnews) — COJO Flatbush CEO Louis Welz announced on Wednesday that the social service agency’s 41st annual Community Legislative Breakfast, scheduled for Sunday, March 15, has been postponed due to public-health concerns related to the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). “We take this step out of an abundance of caution,” said Welz. “Our greatest hope […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — An employee of Meridian Capital, a popular commercial real estate brokerage, has tested positive for coronavirus. The employee is based in New York. “We were recently notified of a possible exposure to coronavirus (COVID-19) at Meridian’s One Battery Park Plaza office,” a firm spokesperson told Crain’s. “As a result, we have […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Touching a germy pole or interacting with a sick person was always a concern for the millions of people who use the New York City public transportation system every day, but fears have skyrocketed since the number of cases in the state surged in recent days as the new virus spreads […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has tested positive for the new coronavirus. Cotton “is going to be on quarantine” and will be working at home, Cuomo said at a press briefing. The team […]

NEW YORK (JTA) —“Really, Mother?! A BELL?!” Dinner was ready at around 7 p.m., so I walked down the hall to my children’s wing and dropped off their plates — with a bell, so they could ring for me and get my attention when I didn’t have my phone with me. Because as of 4:34 […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) – Is your driver’s license valid? It may not be. In the last 28 months, New York issued nearly 1.7 million driver’s license suspensions for not paying traffic tickets. That is nearly two thirds of all license suspensions in New York. New York State lawmakers are saying enough is enough. A new […]

New City, NY (VINnews) — Rockland County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert advises residents that two Rockland County residents who have been confirmed to have Coronavirus (COVID-19) potentially exposed others to the disease from February 28 to March 2. Anyone who visited the following locations in Rockland County may have been exposed to Coronavirus […]

NEW YORK (JNS) — A woman who went on an anti-Semitic tirade against two Jewish people on a New York City subway in December was indicted with a hate crime by a Manhattan grand jury, attorneys of one victim told Fox News on Wednesday. Israeli college student Lihi Aharon and an Orthodox Jewish man she […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday morning that there are two additional patients in NYC whohave tested positive for coronavirus. One new patient is a man in his 40s, and the other patient is a woman in her 80s. Neither patient has a connection to travel nor any of the […]