NORTH CAROLINA (VINnews) — A mother posted a terrifying video on Facebook showing a bounce house being thrown in the wind and flying across the backyard. The large object nearly crashed into a small child that was nearby. Fortunately, the empty inflatable house only grazed him and no serious injuries were reported, according to the […]

With coronavirus cases rising in parts of Europe and Asia, scientists worry that an extra-contagious version of the omicron variant may soon push cases up in the United States too. Experts are also keeping their eyes on another mutant: a rare delta-omicron hybrid that they say doesn’t pose much of a threat right now but […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The four victims of Tuesday’s brutal terror attack have been identified. 49-year-old Dorit Yachbas, a mother of 3 from Moshav Gilat in the Western Negev, was murdered in a shopping center. Chabad emissary Moshe Kravitzki, father of 4 children and director of soup kitchen and Beit Chabad for Russian speakers Laura Yitzchak, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An MDA paramedic who came to the scene of the terror attack to treat the injured was shocked to find his mother’s sister lying critically injured in a clothes store in the shopping center. The woman, who has been identified as 49-year-old Dorit Yachbas, from the village of Gilat in the western […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is preparing to lift requirements that children under age 5 wear face masks in school. Adams on Tuesday said that he will make masks optional for those in daycare and prekindergarten starting April 4 if case rates and the risk of the virus spreading remain […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A clip taken 11 years ago of Rabbi Chaim Kanievski and his rebbetzin, Batsheva Kanievski, answering Amen to their morning Brachos has gone viral in recent days. The clip was taken by the Bnei Emunim organization which wanted to strengthen the answering of Amein in girls schools belonging to the Chunuch Atzmai […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The famous bridge linking the house of Rav Chaim Kanievski at Rashbam 23 with the Lederman shul was dismantled Monday, symbolizing the end of an era in which the house was the focal point of the entire Jewish nation. The bridge was initially erected in 2010 as a temporary structure and then […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor who had survived Buchenwald, Peenemuende, Dora and Bergen-Belsen was killed Friday when his home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, was hit by Russian missiles. Boris Romanchenko’s death was announced Monday by Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp memorial institute. Citing Romanchenko’s relatives, the memorial said he was killed when his home […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — BDE: 33-year-old Jackson resident Mordy Gelfand went missing on a business trip to New Orleans on January 6th and had not been heard from since. After weeks of painstaking searches by Achiezer and other organizations, Gelfand’s body was located and identified in the city on March 21st after he apparently perished […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a dramatic decision by the Netanya District Rabbinical Court, the Beis Din ruled that a Jewish marriage which had taken place years earlier was nullified. The decision meant that divorce proceedings taking place in the Beis Din, including issues of custody and child support, were suspended immediately. The “Netanya Online” site […]