Ukrainian Refugee and Bereaved Holocaust Survivor Reunited With Her Last Remaining Relatives After Being Brought To Israel
Ben Gurion Airport - On Thursday, as part of its first-ever chartered humanitarian aid flight to assist Ukrainian refugees in Moldova, United Hatzalah airlifted 160 refugees bac...
Russians Take Ukraine Nuclear Plant; No Radiation After Fire
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian attack at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine did not result in any radiation being released and firefighters extinguished a blaze at the...
Suicide Bombing Kills 56 At Shiite Mosque In Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar during Friday prayers, killing at least 56 worshippers a...
In Moldova, Ukrainian Jewish Refugees Anxiously Wait Out The War In Synagogues And Jewish Centers
CHISINAU, Moldova (JTA) — A mother cradles her child. An old man clutches a large plastic bag into which he has crammed all the belongings he could fit. The children who are old en...
Pelosi Supports Halting Russian Oil Imports To US: ‘Ban It’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid the escalating war in Ukraine, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she supports banning Russian oil imports to the U.S., a hefty nod that could strength...
Report: Russia-Backed RT America To Cease Production
The U.S. arm of Russian state-backed media outlet RT will be effectively shutting down, CNN reported, citing a memo from the production company behind RT America.
CNN said that ...
Father Mourns Son After Shelling On Ukraine Soccer Field
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The surgeons leaving the operating room don’t make eye contact. One of them holds up his hands. Another looks down, defeated. It’s then that the father wai...
Long Bus Rides, Temporary Shelters And Lots Of Phone Calls: Inside The Jewish Response To The Mounting Refugee Crisis In Poland
It is nearly 10 p.m. at the emergency refugee shelter in Tomaszow Lubelski, Poland, near the Ukrainian border. It’s bitter cold; snowflakes catch in the headlights of the huge tour...
After Being Given The Cold Shoulder, Israeli Distributor Takes Ben & Jerry’s To Court
Avi Zinger was so upset after Ben & Jerry’s pulled the rug out from under him that he never picked up the phone to speak with them. Instead, he’s taking them, and their parent ...
Zelensky: ‘I Don’t Feel The Israeli Prime Minister Has Wrapped Himself In The Ukrainian Flag’
Volodymyr Zelensky, the Jewish Ukrainian president under siege, said he was moved by pictures of Israelis standing in solidarity with his country during the Russian invasion — but ...
US Establishes Direct Line With Russia
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has established a channel of direct communication with the Russian ministry of defense to avoid unintended conflict related to the war in Ukraine.
A U....
RESPONSE: Putin was Smart to Wait for Biden the Weak
Dear VIN News:
This is in response to Chayim H’s letter “How Can Jews Support Trump, the Man who Praised Putin the Murderer?”
Mr. H. laments that the fact that so many Jews, ...
Top Russian General Killed In Ukraine
MOSCOW — Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky, the commanding general of the Russian 7th Airborne Division, was killed in fighting in Ukraine earlier this week.
His death was confirmed ...
Russian Forces Seize Key Ukrainian Port, Pressure Others
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have seized a strategic Ukrainian seaport and besieged another as part of efforts to cut the country off from its coastline, even as Moscow said...
Russia’s War Spurs Corporate Exodus, Exposes Business Risks
LONDON (AP) — Car factories idled, beer stopped flowing, cargo ships dropped port calls and energy companies cut their pipelines.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown busines...
China Denies Asking Russia Not To Invade Until Post-Olympics
BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday denounced a report that it asked Russia to delay invading Ukraine until after the Beijing Winter Olympics as “fake news” and a “very despicable" at...
In Dnipro, Orthodox Father And Son Soldiers Are ‘Ready To Kill Russian Soldiers’
Until just a few months ago, David Cherkaskyi was finishing a degree in cybersecurity, praying at his Chabad synagogue and posting selfies from his travels across the Jewish world....
In Complex Rescue Mission, 100 Jewish Foster Children Escape Ukraine
JERUSALEM — Two buses carrying more than 100 Jewish refugee children from a foster home in Odesa are making their way across Europe to Berlin, where the local Jewish community will...
Kyiv Rabbi Moshe Asman Slams ‘Indifferent’ Russians: ‘I Never Dreamed I Could Die From Russian Shells’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Kyiv Chief Rabbi Moshe Asman (one of a number of claimants to title of Chief Rabbi) has slammed the 'silence and indifference" of Russians and Russian Jews ove...
Russia’s Jewish Oligarchs And Their Donations Come Under Threat Of Western Sanctions Amid Ukraine War
Jewish communities in Ukraine received a $10 million gift from a perhaps unlikely source Monday: a charitable organization founded by three Russian Jewish oligarchs who are being a...