JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In what has become an annual tradition with growing numbers of attendees, a large rally was held in Bnei Brak to strengthen public resolve regarding the dangers of technology. The rally is promoted by a group of Avreichim named “Om Ani Chomah” led by Rabbi Zvi Meir Zilberberg and this year took […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On the 1st of Marcheshvan 1952, two leaders met in a tiny Bnei Brak apartment and held an animated discussion on the issues which would be hotly debated over the next few decades in Israel. This fascinating meeting between Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion and the Chazon Ish, the uncrowned leader of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The ongoing tensions between Israel and Russia over the Ukraine war have escalated recently, with Russia curtailing all the Jewish Agency’s activities in Russia and making it almost impossible for the organization to function there. However according to a a report by Israeli radio reporter Gili Cohen, a senior Russian official is […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In an unprecedented conversation, President Biden spoke at length Monday  with the Skverer Rebbe and asked him for the support of his chasidim in the coming midterm elections, specifically for local representative Sean Maloney. The president concluded the conversations by stating that “you will always have an open door to my […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Joint Arab List MK Aida Touma-Sliman raised a furor in Israel Tuesday after claiming on Twitter that the six Lion’s Den terrorists killed Tuesday during IDF activity in Shechem were “martyrs” and  their “resistance” was a response to “the occupation.” “Nablus [Shechem] bid farewell to our martyrs today,” the Arab Knesset member […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli Supreme Court has once again reversed a decision of the Rabbinical Courts regarding a petition for equal division of assets between a couple who had divorced. According to Israeli law, if the couple had lived in a common economic unit for the duration of their marriage, even assets registered in […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a moving Bar Mitzva ceremony which took place on Chol Hamoed Sukkos in Yerushalayim, Chizky Tornheim celebrated merely being alive. The Vizhnitz chasid from Kiryat Sefer was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta type 2, an inherited connective tissue disorder found in 1 out of 60,000 live births which nearly always results in […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a midnight operation in the city of Shechem, the IDF destroyed a weapons factory which belonged to the Lion’s Den terror cell. The cell had been actively perpetrating terror attacks against Israeli military and civilian targets in the last few weeks. Palestinian sources reported five people dead and over 20 injured […]

WASHINGTON DC (Yaakov M / VINnews) — On Monday, President Biden appeared to get lost in the woods on White House grounds. During a tree-planting ceremony on the South Lawn, he began to wander off, until staffers pointed him in the right direction. The 79-year-old president and Jill Biden had planted a tree in honor […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tzfat chief rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu was assaulted and verbally abused by members of the Berland chasidic group, who also injured Jerusalem deputy mayor Aryeh King.  In the past, Rabbi Eliyahu has criticized their leader, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, for abusing various members of his community. Rabbi Eliyahu encouraged the women to report the […]