JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Bnei Brak man wished to discover the name of his grandfather and asked the Tel Aviv religious council to investigate for him. To his surprise, he was told that his father and grandfather were allegedly Kohanim- the implication being that he too is a Kohen. This presented a real halachic problem […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel of America has published a sharp critique of the Bennett government’s new directives which are harming the chareidi public.  The Moetzes requested that Jews worldwide should pray to Hashem to cancel the decrees of the Israeli government. In a letter to the members of […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Employees who formerly worked in TikTok, the popular social media app, have expressed their concern that the company is controlled by the Chinese parent company. The employees say that the Chinese government could theoretically use TikTok to spread propaganda or censorship to American audience, or to exercise influence over users who […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Lily Ebert swore that if she would survive the Holocaust, she would tell the world about what had happened. For many decades Ebert lectured in universities and schools, a living witness to the horrors inflicted by the Nazis. However COVID-19 curtailed many of these activities and the feisty 97-year-old survivor, who […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Residents of the town of Trelleborg on the south coast of Sweden were astonished to discover the sky around their homes taking on a bizarre purple color at night. The strange color was created by a new energy-efficient system installed on a nearby farm which boasts one of the largest tomato […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As the coronavirus cases and number of sick people have dropped sharply in Israel, government ministers continue to discuss frameworks which would allow a return of different elements of the economy to normal without seeing yet another spike in COVID-19 cases. The health ministry wishes to go from stage to stage based […]

IRINGA, TANZANIA (VINnews) — Letty McMaster was just 18 years old when she set out to spend a month of her gap year volunteering in a Tanzanian orphanage. However the experience was to change her life immeasurably. After seeing the difficult conditions suffered by the orphans, who suffered physical and mental abuse in the orphanage, […]

MICRONESIA (VINnews) — Three men marooned on a tiny Pacific island in the Micronesian archipelago were rescued after a giant SOS sign they wrote in the sand was spotted from above. The three has set out from the Puluwat atoll in Micronesia in a small 23-foot boat intending to reach the Pulap atoll situated 27 […]

Phoenix, AZ (VINNews) — A heartrending video taken in Pheonix, Arizona shows a child being thrown to safety from the third floor of a burning building. The child was caught by Phillip Banks, a retired US marine and former college football player. The mother of the child who was severely burnt when she threw her […]

LONDON (VINnews) —When Suryakant “Suri” Nathwani returned from the hospital where doctors had refused to place him on a ventilator, the reserved 81-year-old grabbed his son’s hand and pleaded to be allowed to die at home. “He said, ‘Please promise me one thing: If I’m going to go, I’m going to go here. Do not […]