Israel’s Netanyahu Postpones Planned Visits To UAE, Bahrain
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday indefinitely postponed planned visits this month to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain due to Israel's ongo...
Germany Names Dutch SS Veterans Who Receive Pensions For Serving Hitler
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Germany has handed over to the Netherlands a list of 34 Dutch citizens who are receiving army stipends from Berlin for serving in the military under the Nazis, in...
Canada Designates The Proud Boys As A Terrorist Entity
TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government designated the Proud Boys group as a terrorist entity on Wednesday, noting they played a pivotal role in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol...
Supreme Court Sides With Germany In Nazi-Era Art Dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's ruling Wednesday in a multimillion-dollar dispute over a collection of religious artworks will make it harder for some lawsuits to be tried in...
19-Year-Old Chemi Trachtenberg Has Already Performed 10,000 Vaccinations, Including Prominent Rabbis
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 19-year-old Chemi Trachtenberg is a United Hatzalah volunteer who seems to have a natural inclination to be involved in saving lives. As soon as the COVID-19 ...
State Department: Abraham Accords Not ‘Substitute’ For Israeli-Palestinian Peace
WASHINGTOn (JNS) - The Biden administration said that while it hopes other countries will normalize relations with Israel, it doesn’t believe that such deals are a substitute for p...
Italy Granted Her A Pension For Holocaust Survivors. Then It Asked For The Money Back.
ROME (JNS) - In 2012, Messauda Fadlun received a letter from the Italian government asking her to return all the money she had been receiving as part of a restitution program for t...
Moscow Court Orders Kremlin Foe Navalny To Prison
MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison for more than 2 1/2 years, finding that he violated the terms of his probation wh...
France Says No AstraZeneca Virus Vaccine For People Over 65
PARIS (AP) — France will only administer the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to people under age 65, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday after the government's health advisory b...
Holocaust Survivor Wants Israel To Grant Residency To His Rescuer’s Dutch Great-Granddaughter
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Holocaust survivor in Israel is pleading with authorities there to allow the great-granddaughter of his rescuer to live in the Jewish state with her parents.
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In Study Of 1,800 Haredi Orthodox Jews In London, Most Have Caught And Beat COVID-19
LONDON (JTA) - In a study of 1,800 people from a single Jewish haredi community in London, 64% of those tested appeared to have contracted and beat the coronavirus, researchers sai...
Future Of Holocaust Research In Poland Hinges On Libel Case
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial for a scholarly examination of Polish behavior during World War II, a case whose outcome is expected to determi...
For the First Time: Matzah Bakery Established at the Home of Hagaon Rav Chaim Kanievsky
Special Matzos Being Sent by Hagaon Rav Chaim to Supporters of Hagaon Rav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin’s Yeshiva Ateres Shlomo, With Rav Chaim’s Blessings of Abundance and Eternal Salvatio...
Pakistan Orders Man Acquitted In Pearl Murder Off Death Row
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off death row an...
COVID-19 Makes A Shidduch As Couple Meet At Hotel For Coronavirus Patients
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — With all the harsh news about the COVID-19 pandemic, it is uplifting sometimes to hear that good things can come from coronavirus. The following post tells th...
Bereaved Father Rabbi Mordechai Rindenow Dies Of COVID-19 And Is Buried Next To IDF Soldier Son
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Rindenow, who lost his youngest son Shlomo in an IDF military accident four years ago, passed away from coronavirus at the age of 64 just ...
‘Kollel Balfour” To Open Outside Israeli PM’s Residence
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Popular Israeli radio broadcaster Menachem Toker has teamed up with businessman Dedi Graucher in an attempt to establish a Kollel for Torah study adjacent to ...
Israeli Company With Military-Grade Surveillance Aims To Defend Jewish Communities Abroad
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Injecting the civilian world with military-based video surveillance techniques is a vision that Col. (res.) Oded Halevy, CEO of the Gotrack HLS company, has spent...
Facebook Draws Left-Wing Ire After Employee Says The Site Could Police The Term ‘Zionists’
CALIFORNIA (JTA) — A leaked email written by a Facebook employee hints that the social media giant may review its policy on allowing the term “Zionist,” and pro-Palestinian groups ...
Biden Threatens Sanctions On Myanmar After Military Coup
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is threatening to slap new sanctions on Myanmar after a coup that saw the military arrest the civilian leaders of its government.
Myanmar, ...