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Stones Thrown At Police Patrolling In Meah Shearim, Palestinian Flags Waved

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Police patrolling in the Meah Shearim neighborhood were attacked Thursday with stones and bottles. Residents attacked police and some even waved Palestinian f...

European Court Backs Pro-Palestinian BDS Protest Movement

PARIS (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that France violated the freedom of expression of pro-Palestinian activists who were convicted for campaigning agains...

COVID-19 pandemic pushes Canadian interest rates to near historic lows

The pandemic that caused enormous unemployment rates around the world also caused the interest rates in Canada to fall to the lowest it has been recorded. The co-founder of RateHub...

Chareidi Woman Among 25 Top Women Leaders Of Cybersecurity

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TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Ola Sergatchov, Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Guardicore Ltd., a Tel-Aviv based cyber company and a Chareidi cybersecurity professional, has been vot...

EU Wants Tech Giants To Do More To Counter Virus Fake News

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BRUSSELS (AP) — A senior European Union official warned online platforms like Google and Facebook on Wednesday to step up the fight against fake news coming notably from countries ...

Zenta Rebbe, Rabbi Chanania Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, Recovers From COVID-19

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Zenta rebbe, Rabbi Chanania Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, the brother of the Satmar rebbes, was released home after two and a half months in critical condition ...

‘Miss Hitler’ Contestant Jailed For 3 Years

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND (VINnews) — A 24-year-old British female who entered the Miss Hitler beauty contest under the name 'Miss Buchenwald' in reference to the Nazi death camp was sen...

A New Talmud Torah Opens In….Dubai

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DUBAI, UAE (VINnews) — A new Talmud Torah has opened in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The Talmud Torah, which has 40 pupils, is the latest stage in the development of a flouri...

Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein : ‘We Don’t Belong Here, It’s Time To Go To Eretz Yisrael’

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein, the founder of Ohr Yitzchak, Ateres Naava Seminary for Girls, and Ohr Naava Women's Institute in Brooklyn, made an impassioned call...

Israel’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Regulation Law In Judea And Samaria, 3,500 Buildings At Risk Of Demolition

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A nine-member panel of judges in Israel's Supreme Court declared Thursday that the Regulation Law legislated by the Knesset in 2017 is unconstitutional and in...

Study: Coronavirus Lockdown Saved 3.1 Million European Lives, Prevents 60 Million US Infections

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LONDON (VINnews) — Just over two months ago, scientists at the Imperial College, London, released a report showing that lockdowns across Europe had saved 120,000 lives up to March ...

During George Floyd Protests, Chicago Suffers Worst Day Of Violence In 60 Years

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CHICAGO (VINnews) — As Chicago was rocked by protests, looting and riots following the murder of George Floyd, criminal elements exploited the lawless atmosphere and committed no l...

Iran to Execute Alleged US-Israel Spy

TEHRAN (JNS) - Iran announced on Tuesday that it will execute a suspected spy for the U.S. and Israel who relayed to those nations information regarding the location of former Isla...

Are Bald Men More Susceptible To Coronavirus?

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Epidemiologists worldwide have noticed that men and bald men in particular suffer worse symptoms of COVID-19 than women but new research may explain this pheno...

Amid US Tension, Iran Builds Fake Aircraft Carrier to Attack

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As tensions remain high between Iran and the U.S., the Islamic Republic appears to have constructed a new mock-up of an aircraft carrier off its ...

World Leaders Won’t Gather At UN For First Time In 75 Years

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The president of the U.N. General Assembly said Monday that world leaders will not be coming to New York for their annual gathering in late September for the ...

NKorea Says It’ll Cut Off Communication Channels With South

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Tuesday it’ll cut off all communication channels with South Korea as it escalates its pressure on the South for failing to stop activists...

WHO: Spread From People Without Symptoms Is Rare

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The World Health Organization says it still believes the spread of the coronavirus from people without symptoms is “rare,” despite warnings from numerous experts ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar: Minnesota Police ‘Rotten To The Root’, Must Be ‘Dismantled’

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MINNEAPOLIS (VINnews) — At a demonstration Saturday in Minneapolis against racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death, Minnesota State congresswoman Ilhan Omar...

Israeli Policeman Stepping On Neck Of Charedi During Arrest To Investigation And Civil Suit

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The disturbing pictures of George Floyd's arrest and subsequent murder reminded a young Chareidi Jerusalem resident of his traumatic arrest at the hands of Is...