VLADIVOSTOCK, RUSSIA (VINnews) — Chaim Goldberg, who was reputedly the world’s oldest Jewish war veteran, passed away at the age of 106 in Vladivostock, Eastern Russia. Goldberg was a World War Two veteran who had driven a tank in a Russian armored brigade and fought the Nazis. Goldberg had been sick in recent months and […]

HOD HASHARON, ISRAEL (VINnews) — Yehonatan Dor-On is a bored high-tech professional stuck at home due to COVID-19. Dor-On, a web developer at CyberX, sought to find ways to help medical staff battling the virus and discovered an online group called COVID-19 Open Source, which was sharing models that could assist medical staff. Yehonatan told […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Journalist Nir Dvori published on his Twitter page a picture taken by a policeman patrolling the streets of Jerusalem on Seder night at a time when there was a total curfew and no people were permitted to walk on the streets. The picture, which touched many people due to its poetic effect, […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — OPEC, Russia and other oil-producing nations on Sunday finalized an unprecedented production cut of nearly 10 million barrels, or a tenth of global supply, in hopes of boosting crashing prices amid the coronavirus pandemic and a price war, officials said. The cartel and other nations agreed to allow Mexico […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Stanley I. Chera, a prominent Jewish philanthropist and developer who succeeded in turning his father’s Brooklyn department store business into one of New York real estate’s biggest retail empires and later used his wealth to support the presidency bid of Donald Trump, has died from complications of the coronavirus at the […]

LONDON — Health officials say 657 more people in England have died from the new coronavirus, raising the total U.K. deaths over 10,000. The National Health Service figure does not include deaths in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. A figure for the whole U.K. will be released later. The 657 deaths come on top of […]

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — He called himself “Commander” online. He was a leader of an international neo-Nazi group linked to plots to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and detonate a car bomb at a major U.S. news network. He was 13 years old. The boy who led Feuerkrieg Division lived in Estonia and apparently cut […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Numerous countries hit by the coronavirus are suffering both the physical effects of the virus and severe economic damage from the paralyzed economy. Many of these countries such as Italy and Spain which are exhibiting a slight downturn in infections are already considering easing their lockdown restrictions and returning to economic […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government approved a tight quarantine of several areas of Jerusalem on Sunday, including the historic Old City, in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the city’s most susceptible neighborhoods. A ministerial committee gave approved the shutting down of movement in and out of several predominantly ultra-Orthodox […]

RAANANA, Israel (AP) — While hunkering down at home and keeping three young children entertained in coronavirus isolation, Adi Karmon Scope had a thought: How much harder was it for those on the front lines of the pandemic? So Karmon Scope, a 44-year-old startup entrepreneur took to Facebook to ask Israelis to assist both the […]