NEW YORK (VINnews) — A young Jewish couple from Ukraine celebrated the first Jewish wedding since the outbreak of hostilities in the country five weeks ago. The wedding took place on Monday night , the 40th day of the war, in the Menora building compound in the city of Dnipro (formerly Dnieperpetrovsk). Alexander Tolkach and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Speaking at a special Knesset session convened to discuss recent terror attacks, Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his congratulations to Idit Silman on her announcement that she is quitting the coalition. “On Pesach we celebrate the Jewish nation’s exodus from Egypt to the land of Israel, the promised land. Today we are […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Coalition leader Idit Silman (Yamina) resigned Wednesday morning, effectively leaving the Bennett-Lapid government without a majority and at the mercy of the opposition for passing legislation. In a letter to Prime Minister Bennett, Silman wrote that the reason for her abrupt departure was that “I tried hard but unfortunately could not support […]

BEIJING (AP) — The COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest metropolis of Shanghai remains “extremely grim” amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday. Director of Shanghai’s working group on epidemic control, Gu Honghui, was quoted by state media as saying that the outbreak in the city […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An Israeli woman was sentenced to death in a United Arab Emirates court recently for possessing half a kilo of cocaine, Ynet reported Tuesday. The Israeli woman was arrested in March of 2021 and claimed that the drugs were not hers. The court in Abu Dhabi imposed the death sentence, although in […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Rabbi Hillel Cohen of Kyiv has made it his mission to rescue Jews from war-torn Ukraine, even at great personal risk. Many of these Jews are Israeli males threatened with conscription by Ukraine due to their Ukrainian passports. At the same time he transfers badly needed food and medicines to Jews […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Satellite images of the streets of Bucha prior to the Russian invasion and after the Russians were there debunk Russian claims that bodies were planted in the city after they left. The images published by the New York Times show that as early as March 11, bodies were lying in the […]

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year. The World Health Organization, about six […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Mayor Adams was confronted by protesters chanting “unmask our toddlers” as he entered the Barrymore theater. At first Mayor Adams defended the insane policy to force children aged 2-4 years old to wear masks. Then he reversed his policy, and now he again supports masking adorable little toddlers. According to the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Ukrainian intelligence reports that two Russian soldiers died and dozens more were injured after Ukrainian civilians allegedly gave them poisoned cakes and alcohol near Kharkiv. Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence posted on Facebook Saturday that two troops died and 28 were placed in intensive care after being fed the poisoned cakes […]