JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Nearly half of Israelis fear a second Holocaust for the Jewish people, according to a special survey conducted by the Pnima organization on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The poll discussed the most controversial issues regarding preservation of the memory of the Holocaust as well as the existential anxiety of Israeli […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A British pensioner has become the world’s oldest person to receive a cochlear implant, a device enabling his hearing to improve dramatically. On his 103rd birthday, Leslie Hodgson from Penrith walked into The James Cook University Hospital Middlesbrough and asked for help to regain his hearing for the first time in […]

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is in the pole position to win reelection Sunday in the country’s presidential runoff, yet his lead over far-right rival Marine Le Pen depends on one major uncertainty: voters who could decide to stay home. A Macron victory in this vote — which could have far-reaching repercussions for […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The month of Ramadan varies annually as the Muslim lunar calendar does not have a leap year to keep up with the solar calendar. This year the month coincided with Nissan, a time when Jews hope and pray that the redemption from Egypt will presage a renewed redemption from the nations of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes, trains and travel hubs, officials said Wednesday. It came minutes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked the Justice Department to appeal the decision handed down by a federal […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The custom of women shaving their hair after marriage was widespread in Galicia and Hungary prior to the Holocaust and is still continued in some communities, mainly from the Toldos Aharon sect and in old Yerushalmi families. Some said that the basis for the custom was a fear of sechita (squeezing liquid) […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Palestinian terrorist who allegedly perpetrated the grisly murder of an elderly Jerusalem couple in 2019 has reenacted the murder to police and explained his motivation for the murders. The terrorist, Wasim a-Sayed, a 34-year-old Palestinian from Hebron, was recently arrested after the murder of a Moldovan foreign worker, Ivan Tarnowski, who […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Hezbollah political leader announced Saturday that it would take “a mere $9 billion to obliterate the State of Israel.” Mohammed Raad, the head of the Hezbollah parliamentary bloc in the Lebanese parliament said that “The resistance only needs $9 billion and there will be nothing left called Israel in the region,” […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) —  Vice-President Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff posted pictures of their Seder, including a wine from the Psagot winery in Binyamin, raising questions regarding Harris’s positions on Judea and Samaria. In the past Harris has been a vociferous opponent of Jewish settlement in these regions, in accordance with Democratic party […]

HAMPTON, S.C. (AP) — Authorities in South Carolina say they are investigating shooting at a club in Hampton County early Sunday that left at least nine people injured. It was the third mass shooting in the U.S. over the Easter holiday weekend. The three shootings in South Carolina and Pittsburgh left two minors dead and […]