Friday, June 9, 2023

Israel

The Sacklers, Jewish Family Behind OxyContin, Will Pay $6B In Deal That Shields Them From Lawsuits

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NEW YORK (JTA) – The Sackler family, the Jewish billionaires whose marketing of the painkiller drug OxyContin fueled the United States’ ongoing opioid epidemic, will receive full i...

WATCH: News Anchor Who Became Religious Through Edelsteins, Breaks Down In Tears At Rav Gershon’s Passing

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — One of the high-profile Baal Teshuva families in Israel, Eden Harel and Oded Menashe, became religious after becoming acquainted and close to the Edelstein br...

Liberman: Vilna Gaon Studied Astronomy And Math, Lubavitcher Rebbe Earned Degrees And They Were Torah Giants

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Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman angered chareidi Knesset members on Wednesday, when he invoked the names of great rabbis who studied non-religious subjects in addition...

Chareidi Marathon Runner Beatie Deutsch Can’t Compete At Budapest World Championship -As Its On Shabbat

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Not for the first time, chareidi marathon runner Beatie Deutsch, who competes at international marathons and has won Israeli marathons on several occasions, w...

16th Victim Of 2001 Sbarro Suicide Bombing In Jerusalem Dies After 22-Year Coma

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A victim of the horrific Sbarro suicide bombing which occurred in August 2001 has passed away at Ichilov hospital after being in a coma for nearly 22 years. ...

Shin Bet Sting Operation Nabs Two Terrorists Who Tried To Buy Weapons From Undercover Operatives

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a sting operation to prevent terrorists from perpetrating an attack on the village of Nachliel in the Binyamin region, the Shin Bet succeeded in nabbing th...

The Last Day Of Rabbi Edelstein’s Life: Shiur After Shiur In ICU, Each Shiur Meticulously Prepared

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a remarkable picture from the ICU in Maayanei Hayeshua taken just hours before Rabbi Gershon Edelstein's passing, the rabbi can be seen doing what he had d...

NY Post Front Page Slams CUNY Antisemite Speaker

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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — On Tuesday's NY Post front page, outraged critics rip a CUNY law grad’s Jew hating ‘hate-filled’ commencement speech, and demand billions in tax dol...

READ: CUNY Releases Statement Condemning Hate Speech…3 Weeks After Vicious Antisemitic Speech

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Statement from the Board of Trustees and Chancellor of the City University of New York “Free speech is precious, but often messy, and is vital to the foundation of higher educatio...

Israeli Leaders Pay Tribute To Rabbi Edelstein: ‘His Entire Life Was Holiness’

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli leaders from all sectors of the public paid tribute Tuesday morning to Rabbi Gershon Edelstein on his passing at the age of 100. Prime Minister Net...

Belzer Rebbe Establishes Organization For Those Who Leave Chareidi Lifestyle: ‘They Need Our Embrace’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a historic move, the Belzer Rebbe announced the establishment of a new organization for former chareidim, both those who maintain a religious lifestyle and...

Kissinger Denies Delaying Airlift During Yom Kippur War So Israel Could ‘Bleed Enough For Post-War Diplomacy’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an interview with Israel's channel 12 marking the occasion of his 100th birthday, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger denied having delayed vital air...

Rabbi Gershon Edelstein: Biography Of a Gadol

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yerachmiel Gershon Edelstein, one of the first students at the Ponovezh yeshiva established by the Ponovezher Rav in 1944, served as a Ram (Torah teache...

Hagaon Rabbi Yerachmiel Gershon Edelstein, Ponovezh Rosh Yeshiva, Passes Away At Age 100

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Watch the Live Stream of the levaya here: https://www.c-live.co.il/archives/45073 JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: The Torah world was plunged into mourning with the news that Mara...

Chareidi IDF Submarine Diver Breaks New Glass Ceiling: ‘They Saw My Potential’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Among the IDF's elite and prestigious units, the submarine units are among the toughest and most challenging to gain entry to. Cadets must be extremely capabl...

‘His Condition Fluctuates From Minute To Minute’: Prayers Continue For Rabbi Edelstein, Hospitalized In ICU

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tefillos continue around the clock for Rabbi Yerachmiel Gershon Ben Miriam Edelstein, who is hospitalized at the Maayanei Hayeshua ICU in Bnei Brak since the ...

Yeshivat Chomesh Reestablished At Site Of Destroyed Community: ‘A Step Towards Fixing Disengagement Injustice’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a nocturnal operation at the site of the former community of Chomesh, the yeshiva of Chomesh was transferred from its current tents to a building located a...

Former Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen: Normalization With Saudi Arabia ‘Is Absolutely Possible’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The former head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, spoke at the INSS - Institute for National Security Studies - conference in Tel Aviv and sounded optimistic about ...

WATCH: CUNY Finally Releases Shameful Video of Commencement Speaker’s Antisemitic Tirade

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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — CUNY’s Law School has finally released a video of a commencement address in which vicious lies were told about Israel, after the school buried the s...

9-Year-Old Kochav Yaakov Girl Lightly To Moderately Injured By Stray Bullet From Ramallah

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a disturbing reminder of the dangers of unrestricted weapon usage in Arab towns situated near Jewish communities, a 9-year-old Jewish girl from Kochav Yaak...