Explainer: What We Know And Don’t Know About Omicron Variant
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it could still take some time to get a full picture of the threat posed by omicron, a new variant of the coronavirus as scientists ...
US Envoy Thomas Nides Lands In Israel, Touts ‘Unbreakable Bonds’
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Newly confirmed U.S. envoy Thomas Nides landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday morning to take up the post left vacant after the departure of David Friedman in Ja...
Israeli Archaeologists Uncover Buildings And Ancient Cemetery From Sanhedrin Period Of Yavne
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a landmark archaeological discovery, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Monday that it had discovered remains of a building in Yavne from the perio...
Israeli PM Urges World Powers To Resist Iran’s ‘Blackmail’
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister on Monday called on world powers not to “give in to Iran’s nuclear blackmail” as negotiations commenced in Vienna.
Naftali Bennett said ...
Amsterdam Chief Rabbi Opposes Locally-Shot Movie About Spinoza : ‘Excommunication Still In Force’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The rabbi of the Spanish Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam, Rabbi Yosef Tzarfati, announced his sharp opposition to the shooting of a movie about philos...
Politifact Debunks Claim That 75 Athletes Died Of Heart Attacks After COVID-19 Vaccination
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Politifact, a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter, has debunked a theory circulating o...
WATCH: Rav Gamliel Rabinovitch Celebrating Chanukah
YERUSHALAYIM (VINnews) — In this riveting video, legendary Mekubel, HaGaon HaRav Gamliel shlit"a, plays dreidel and sings on the first night of Chanukah, surrounded by children. He...
Vizhnitzer Rebbe: Give Up Your Kosher Smartphones
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — This past Shabbos, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, HaRav Yisrael Hager shlit”a, spoke passionately to his followers, and implored them to accept a difficult "kabbalah”....
Morocco Halts All Incoming Flights Because Of Virus Variant
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco is suspending all incoming air travel from around the world starting Monday for two weeks because of the rapid spread of the new omicron variant, the ...
Israel To Allow 3,000 Ethiopian Jews To Immigrate
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's government on Sunday approved the immigration of several thousand Jews from war-torn Ethiopia, some of whom have waited for decades to join their relative...
Israel Behind Cyberattack On Iranian Gas Stations, Say US Officials
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israel was behind a cyberattack on Iran’s fuel distribution system in late October that paralyzed the Islamic Republic’s 4,300 gas stations, according to the New ...
Israel Tightens Travel Restrictions Over New COVID Variant, Reinstates Contact Tracing
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday approved barring entry to foreign nationals and the use of controversial technology for contact tracing as part of its efforts to clamp down on a ...
Netherlands, Australia Find Omicron Variant As Curbs Spread
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands confirmed 13 cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus on Sunday and Australia found two as the countries half a world apart...
Committee Of Israeli Rabbis Asks Shura Islamic Council To ‘Prevent Government From Harming Religion’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tens of rabbis contacted the head of the Shura Council, who is the religious leader of the Ra'am political party headed by Mansour Abbas. The rabbis requested...
DISGRACEFUL: Friends of Murdered Terror Victim Forced to Leave Israel, Desecrate Shabbos
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Five members of the South African Jewish community who flew to Israel to offer consolation to the family of Eli Kay HyD, who was murdered in the terror attack...
COVID Variant Spreads To More Countries As World On Alert
LONDON (AP) — The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday, just days after being identified in South Afr...
Israel Bars Tourists, Reinstate Quarantine Rules To Contain New Virus
JERUSALEM (VINnews) - The Israeli government voted to ban all foreigners from entering Israel as part of an effort to stem the spread of the new South African "Omicron" variant, on...
Israeli Man Wanted In Italy Cable Car Custody Case Arrested
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Police in Cyprus have arrested an Israeli man wanted by Italy for having helped spirit the 6-year-old lone survivor of a cable car accident out of Italy and ...
SHOCK: Rav Shteinman’s Grave Desecrated on Eve of Yahrzeit
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — On Friday morning, cemetery visitors were shocked to discover the matzeiva of Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman zt”l desecrated. Vandals placed black paint on the mat...
In Poland, Plans To Build A Museum On Schindler Survivors’ Former Camp Spark Environmental Protest
KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — The concentration camp that the Nazis built in the heart of this picturesque city was “the innermost circle of hell” to Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson.
Ex...