GREAT NECK (VINnews)  Multiple Jewish people, mostly teenagers, suffered from carbon monoxide inhalation in Great Neck, Long Island. It happened just after 6 a.m. Tuesday at the Chabad of Great Neck. Numerous people in the building complained of feeling nauseous and dizzy, and first responders were alerted. According to media reports, many of the patients […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the recent agreements reached between Belz chasidim and the Israeli ministry of education, Education Minister Shasha-Biton and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, the schools and cheders of Belz which maintain higher standards of secular studies will receive special funding. However the controversial agreement has been sharply criticized by the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Nearly three years after an Israeli policeman was documented pulling the peyos of Mordechai  Kroizer during an erroneous arrest, the courts sentenced the policeman, Yaakov Shitrit. Jerusalem Magistrates Court judge Mohammed Haj Yihya sentenced Shitrit to 300 hours of public service, a three month suspended sentence, a letter of apology to Kroizer […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli police have arrested a suspect in the disappearance of Moishy Kleinerman but placed a gag order on any details of the investigation or any new developments in the case. The dramatic news was publicized after the case has been high profile in Israeli media in the last few weeks, with almost […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tal Gilboa is an animal liberation and vegan activist who served as an advisor to former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu on animal rights issues. Gilboa is a Likud member, an outspoken person who is never afraid to speak out on issues which she champions. In a moving post, Gilboa described how she […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Palestinian sources told Israel’s channel 14 that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken promised PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas in May to declare the Lehava and La Familia organizations as terror groups in the US. Blinken claimed at the time that the Israeli government was also planning to declare the two groups as […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A covert meeting which took place recently at Sharm a-Sheikh brought high-ranking Israeli military personnel together with similar high ranking officers from countries that Israel has no diplomatic relations with. The meeting was the result of a US initiative to coordinate regional efforts against Iran’s missile and drone threat. The Wall Street […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a painfully candid interview aired on Israel’s Kan 11 state television channel, a young woman (whose voice was dubbed and face blurred) described the severe abuse she suffered at the hands of the rabbi of her school and subsequently the harassment she endured at her Ulpana, or girls high school. The […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — If there is one paradox which remains constant in chareidi politics, it is the lack of correlation between the growth of the chareidi communities and their representation in Israeli politics. By all accounts, Israel’s chareidi community numbers about a million people (Bli Ayin Hara), representing about a ninth of the electorate. Moreover […]

Pfizer announced Saturday that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and works — just days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster shots this fall. The vaccines currently used in the U.S. still offer strong protection against severe COVID-19 disease and death — especially if people have […]