JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli officials representing several ministries, the Israel Defense Forces and the health system met on Tuesday for a “war game” exercise at the headquarters of the military’s Alon coronavirus task force in Ramle, ahead of a winter in which the medical community is predicting coinciding waves of flu and COVID-19. Health officials […]

MIDDLE EAST (VINnews) — Six Arab nations are demanding that Netflix remove “offensive content,” particularly immoral programming that targets children. The Middle Eastern countries, which belong to the “Gulf Cooperation Council of Electronic Media” are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. They issued a joint statement declaring that some content on the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Police have submitted an indictment for assault against a 26-year-old Pardes Chana resident who attacked Levi Bloi, a Chabad yeshiva student who was on his way to a Tefillin stand in Tel Aviv last Friday. "פתאום הוא מופיע מולי, מטיח אותי לרצפה, ממלמל משהו לא ברור וממשיך בדרכו" לוי בלוי, הנער החרדי […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After an IDF investigation concluded that it was “likely” that bullets fired by IDF soldiers had inadvertently caused the death of Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, the US is pressuring Israel to change its open-fire policies. “We’re going to continue to press our Israeli partner to closely review its policies and practices […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Eliza Fletcher, the kindergarten teacher mother of 2 and heiress to a huge fortune who was abducted in Memphis last Friday, has tragically been found dead. Police did not describe the cause and manner of her death but have arraigned a suspect on charges of first-degree murder. The Memphis Police Department […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Torah world and in particular the Gur Chasidus mourn the passing of Rabbi Yosef Halevi Hurwitz, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Chidushei Harim yeshiva in Tel Aviv and one of the last surviving students of the Mir yeshiva from Shanghai. Rabbi Hurwitz was nearly 103 years old at his passing. Rav […]

BROOKLYN (VINnews) — Boro Park’s Maimonides Medical Center may need to be “saved” even sooner than expected. In addition to its allegedly subpar conditions and poor record of treatment, the hospital appears to be on the verge of financial collapse, according to the NY Post. Financial filings show that the iconic yet beleaguered hospital lost […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Bentzion Mutzafi, one of the most prominent Sephardi poskim, spoke out sharply against riding on electric scooters and electric bicycles and termed such riding “a suicidal act.” One of Rabbi Mutzafi’s disciples asked him to pray for a person who had suffered a serious head injury while riding an electric bike. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Security forces in the Binyamin region recently razed the Ramat Migron outpost for the third time in weeks – at the same time as Arabs from the nearby village continue to build illegally without any disturbance. Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu came to give support to the residents of the outpost, which is situated […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Gur chasidic court celebrated Monday the wedding of the granddaughter of the Rebbe, daughter of his son Rabbi Yisrael Menachem Alter, to the son of Rabbi Hershel Plotchnik. The huge wedding was attended by an estimated 60,000 people who filled the entire street adjacent to the Gur Beis Midrash where the […]