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 […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a tragic incident which occurred during the course of Shabbat, a Jerusalem baby died after being evacuated to hospital Friday. The 20-month-old baby from Meah Shearim had apparently ingested a marble and choked on it while playing at home. Hatzalah responders who arrived at the scene treated the child and transferred […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s Labor Party leader, Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, spoke out sharply on Friday against the US Supreme Court’s abolishing of Roe vs Wade. Michaeli, an outspoken feminist who seeks to reform the grammatical genders in Hebrew to include females in all formats of expression, said the abortion ruling was a result “of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A lack of clear, concise and consistent messaging about the seriousness of the novel coronavirus in the earliest months of its spread created a false sense of security among Americans that the pandemic would not be serious and resulted in inaction early on across the federal government. That was the assessment of […]

LAKEWOOD (VINnews) Shaindy Braun has decided to close her “Sary Wigs” Instagram page, which has over 40,000 followers. She wrote one final post, including this excerpt: “I am making this choice to close this page in order to make space for something higher. I want more אמת and more קדושה in my life and by […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A woman who had been kidnapped in New York City was rescued Sunday after sending a note asking for help through the food service app Grubhub. The woman sent an order to the Chipper Truck Cafe, a Yonkers Restaurant and added in the note section a request to the restaurant workers […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yamina rebel Nir Orbach holds in his hands the key to when the Knesset dissolution will occur. Orbach heads the prestigious House Committee in the Knesset, the committee which must now review the dissolution law which passed its initial stage in the Knesset Wednesday. If Orbach would choose to convene the committee […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Jewish social media sites were buzzing with the news that a chareidi Jew from Brooklyn had won the $126 million jackpot of the March 8 Mega Millions draw. The man, identified as Herman Kahan, guessed the winning numbers as well as the Mega Ball, enabling him to take the jackpot. The […]