BROOKLYN (VINnews) — A well-known yeshiva has mistakenly hired a teacher who claims to be female but is actually a biological male. Now Yeshiva Magen David’s administration is in a difficult bind. If they fire him, they could be slapped with a discrimination lawsuit. Parents are rightfully shocked and furious, and it is not clear […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a dramatic last-minute development which occurred in the last hour before the deadline for submitting Knesset lists for the forthcoming Israeli elections, the Joint Arab list split apart, with the Balad party splitting from Chadash-Ta’al and submitting a separate list. The party had run as a joint list in the last […]

ISRAEL (VINnews) — A group of leading Zionist rabbis have paskened that a biological female student may only attend a girls’ class, regardless of how she “identifies”. The Rabbis sent a letter to the faculty of a religious public school system regarding a girl who had been placed in the boys’ class at a religious […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A new book by the New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker reveals a startling offer made by former President Trump to Jordan’s King Abdullah II: control of Judea and Samaria, a region which Jordan voluntarily forfeited in 1988 and whose Palestinian population had long sought to topple the monarchy. Prior […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard announced that he is engaged to be married, less than a year after the death of his wife Esther who had canvassed for his release from prison for many years. Esther died from COVID-19 complications last January after suffering from breast cancer for many years. Pollard will […]

WASHINGTON (Yaakov M / VINnews) — On Wednesday, Senator Rand Paul again grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci in a contentious exchange, with the Republican lawmaker vowing to get to the bottom of conflicts of interest among government health officials. After grilling Fauci about immunology, Paul, himself an MD, blasted the self-proclaimed “man of science” for not […]

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide last week was the lowest reported in the pandemic since March 2020, marking what could be a turning point in the years-long global outbreak. At a press briefing in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said […]

BEIJING (AP) — Residents of a city in China’s far western Xinjiang region say they are experiencing hunger, forced quarantines and dwindling supplies of medicine and daily necessities after more than 40 days in a virus lockdown. Hundreds of posts from Ghulja riveted users of Chinese social media last week, with residents sharing videos of […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The spotlight focused on Britain’s King Charles has already displayed a number of irritable and erratic behaviors on the part of the king, including getting flustered about a pen leaking ink, complaining that he had written the wrong date and flippantly requesting his valets to remove ink as he signed documents. […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — Queen Elizabeth has been eulogized by countless politicians and other leading figures across the globe. But in his tribute to the late monarch in the House of Lords, Baron David Wolfson used a new method of talking about the significance of her death: explaining a pillar of Jewish mysticism. In a […]