JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli officials expressed satisfaction at the apparent success of the ceasefire with Islamic Jihad and added that “We can now start looking toward the next phase.” The officials, who spoke with Israeli media Monday, stressed that Israel had embarked on the three-day Alot Ha’Shachar operation [ Shachar connotes black, the color of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews)— Two days into the Amud Hashachar (Dawn) military campaign, Israel has achieved all of its objectives, eliminating the two most prominent leaders of Islamic Jihad as well as a number of middle-level commanders. However, due to the current lack of leaders in the terrorist organization, there is nobody who can negotiate the ceasefire […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In retaliation for the elimination of the northern sector of Gaza’s  Islamic Jihad commander, Thaysir Al-Ja’abri, as well as 15 terror operatives, the terrorist organization unleashed a huge barrage of rockets against Israel during the course of Friday night and Shabbos. From 9 PM Friday night, the Islamic Jihad fired rockets towards […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — For the third straight day, the IDF has ordered all roads near the Gaza Strip border closed, as fears of a possible retaliation attack by the Islamic Jihad to the arrest of its commander in Judea and Samaria remain in place. The commander, Bassem Saadi, was arrested during a Monday night raid […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a dramatic move at the end of the summer “zman”(yeshiva term), the venerable Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem has expelled tens of bochurim, including some of its star students. The sudden decision is based on an old directive issued by Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach in 1994, prohibiting all yeshiva students from […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Hebrew University professor Amiram Goldblum caused an uproar Monday when he complained about the university’s decision to close on Tisha Ba’Av in deference to the Jewish day of mourning. Goldblum, a chemistry professor at the university, sharply condemned the decision, writing that it is “Unbelievable — a shameful submission to the religious […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an interview on the Kikar Hashabat site, MK Moshe “Kinli” Tur-Paz (Yesh Atid) who was the mediator between the Belz chasidim and the Education Ministry revealed that the new arrangement with the chasidus has nothing to do with the Mamlachti Chareidi program. Tur-Paz stressed that the new arrangement started because Belz […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Americans are obsessed with thinness, yet statistically two thirds of Americans are overweight. The obsession goes so far that there are women who will buy clothes a few sizes too small, on the perchance that they will lose weight to fit into them, or as incentive to lose weight. Yet, for […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a shocking incident of gratuitous violence, a professor at the University of West Georgia has been charged with murder after he shot and killed an 18-year-old girl who was about to begin her studies at his college in the fall, according to police. Richard Sigman, a business lecturer at the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the passing away of Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, the leader of the Eda Chareidis, the community’s simmering dispute over its future leaders has boiled over. During the course of the levaya on Sunday, extremist elements shouted insults at Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, the Raavad and posek of the Eda […]