NEW YORK (JTA) — The Jewish community of Manchester, England, is one of the few in Europe that is growing dramatically. Since 2011, the city’s Jewish population has increased about 20%, to a total of 30,000 people, mostly due to an influx of haredi Orthodox Jews, many of whom having left London for a lower […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Terrorists opened fire early Thursday morning at hundreds of people who had come to worship at the tomb of Yosef in Shechem. IDF soldiers returned fire. There were no injuries to the worshipers or IDF soldiers but security forces decided to evacuate all the worshipers from the compound of Yosef’s tomb. Despite […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a desperate attempt to gain votes in the battle for the leadership of the Meretz party, MK Yair Golan has once again lambasted the chareidi community, asking why IDF soldiers should defend worshipers praying at Yosef’s tomb if those worshipers do not serve in the IDF. “What is going on at […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) —   Otzma Yehudit MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, who recently broke off negotiations with the Religious Zionist party and decided to run independently for the Knesset, called for the creation of a deportation law during an interview on Army Radio Tuesday. “When we form the government, I will promote the Deportation Law, which will deport […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tens of Border Police arrived at 5 AM at the chareidi outpost of Derech Emuna, established four days ago by 15 chareidi families near the village of Meitzad. The police evacuated the outpost without significant opposition by its occupants and destroyed the homes. 11 temporary dwellings had been erected by the families […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Yair Lapid, himself the son of a Holocaust survivor, and others in Israel, Germany and the US expressed shock and outrage Tuesday night, after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of committing “ fifty holocausts” against Palestinians over the years during a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Transport Minister Merav Michaeli caused an uproar after her controversial decision to send covert supervisors to buses in chareidi cities in order to determine that there is no ‘feminine exclusion’ taking place, with women being forced to sit at the back of the buses. Michaeli wrote in a Twitter message without referring […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans will be able to buy hearing aids without a prescription later this fall, under a long-awaited rule finalized Tuesday. The Food and Drug Administration said the new regulation cuts red tape by creating a new class of hearing aids that don’t require a medical exam, a prescription and other […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Shalom Klein, a United Hatzalah EMT, was standing at the bus stop on Shamgar Street on Thursday night with his wife and seven-month-old son when an Egged intercity bus careened out of control and smashed into the bus stop where he and his family were standing. Miraculously, Shalom and his family were […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Deborah Marie, a French girl of Jewish descent, suffered from serious pains in 2005, when she was just 17. Doctors diagnosed a life-threatening thrombus. Deborah’s despairing mother Helen prayed for her daughter. A few days later a Jewish rabbi acquainted with the family knocked on the door and asked to hear about […]