Eda Chareidis Leader Travels To Gush Etzion Protest Against Archaeologists Digging Burial Caves
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The head of the Eda Chareidis, Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss(95) travelled to the Gush Etzion region Wednesday to demonstrate against an archaeological dig which...
Religious Affairs Minister Kahane Aims To Control Committee For Appointing Rabbinical Judges
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Religious Affairs minister Matan Kahane intends on bringing a new bill to the Knesset which will lead to a change in the composition of the committee for appo...
Polish Schoolchildren Destroyed Dozens Of Jewish Headstones. They Said They Wanted To Build A Fortress.
WARSAW (JTA) - Several children in Poland toppled 63 headstones of Jewish graves because they wanted to use the slabs to build a fortress, they told police.
The group of five 12...
Jewish Woman From Maryland Stabbed To Death On Chicago Street
Illinois (WBAL/VINnews) - Chicago police are searching for the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a University of Maryland graduate student over the weekend.
Anat Kimchi, 31, is ...
Israeli Police Minister Attempts To Outlaw Anti-Assimilation Group Lehava As ‘Terror Organization’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel's Public Security Minister, Omer Bar-Lev, has asked attorney-general Avichai Mandelblit to declare the Lehava organization headed by Bentzi Gopstein a ...
Knesset Members Host Event Entitled ‘From Occupation To Apartheid’, MK Ben-Gvir: Terrorists
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an absurd example of how freedom of speech can be used to besmirch Israel even inside its own parliament, two Knesset members from the coalition and opposi...
Watch: Festive 40th Siyum Of The Rambam At Sultan’s Pool, Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Thousands of Lubavitch chasidim celebrated Monday night in Jerusalem the end of the 40th cycle of study of the Rambam, a study which was initiated by the Luba...
Watch: Delegation Of Emiratis And Egyptians Visits Israeli Yeshiva
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — One of the corollaries of the peace treaty between Israel and the Emirates will hopefully be more tourism and investment in Israel by Arabs. So far Israelis h...
German Publishing Boss Tells Workers To Find New Jobs If They Oppose Israeli Flag
BERLIN (JTA) — Here’s the advice from a top publishing executive in Germany to employees who complained about his decision to fly the Israeli flag on the business’ headquarters: Fi...
David Weprin Blessed By The Satmar Grand Rebbe And By Multiple Other Rebbe’s
Assemblymember David Weprin, a top-tier candidate for New York City Comptroller, has been endorsed by a group of prominent Queens’s rabbis and Jewish community leaders, and he has ...
Germany Inaugurates 1st Military Rabbi In Over A Century
BERLIN (AP) — The German military got its first rabbi in over a century Monday, with the inauguration to the post of Hungarian-born Zsolt Balla at a synagogue in Leipzig.
The Ge...
Williamsburg Art Gallery Opens Featuring Exclusively Chasidic Art
BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - Having attracted a large community of artists in recent years with its comparatively low rents and large spaces, the greater Williamsburg area welc...
First Chaplain Of German Army Since The Holocaust Did Not Know He Was Jewish Until He Was 9
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Until he was 9 years old, Rabbi Mordechai Eliezer Balla, who was recently appointed as the federal chaplain of the German army, did not even know that he was J...
Three Other Countries Request Vaccines From Israel After Palestinians Refuse To Accept Them
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After Palestinian leaders refused to accept the vaccines sent by Israel over the weekend, claiming that they were close to expiration date, three other countr...
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: Don’t Buy Arab Produce, Meretz MK: Investigate Rabbi For ‘Racial Incitement’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu called Sunday not to purchase agricultural produce from Israeli Arabs in the aftermath of the violent riots in which a number...
Eight Arrested In Connection With Murder Of Yigal Yehoshua In Lod Riots
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Eight suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Jewish Israeli man in Lod last month during the Arab riots that rocked cities throughout the ...
The Eyes That Wrote Torah : A Eulogy For Rabbi Yaakov Rabinowitz-Teumim
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — His eyes, the only part of his body which would still obey his brain's commands, flitted onto the special computer screen which recognized their message. Slow...
Israeli Government To Authorize National Committee Of Inquiry Into Meron Tragedy
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In it's first cabinet meeting Sunday, the new Israeli government is expected to authorize the establishment of a national committee of inquiry into the Meron ...
Israeli Folk Singer Cancels Concert For Women Due To Ordinance Preventing Separate Public Events
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli folk singer Eti Ankri was forced to cancel a celebratory concert only hours before it was due to start since the law prohibits separate events from ta...
Staten Island Jewish Community Unites Behind Andrew Yang for Mayor of New York City
Staten Island, NY - A group representing the Orthodox Jewish communities of Staten Island issued their joint endorsement of Andrew Yang for Mayor of New York City.
The Staten Is...