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 […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Ukraine has rejected an ultimatum given by Russia to surrender and leave the besieged port city of Mariupol by Monday morning. The city is a key strategic location for the Russians allowing them to take control of the entire Ukraine coast along the Sea of Azov. The Russians had offered to […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A new exhibition by Dutch historian Wally De Lang has revealed the fate of 400 Jews who disappeared 80 years ago from Amsterdam – a fate which was not known until now. In February 1941, nine months after the Nazis invaded and occupied the Netherlands, the first pogroms began on Dutch […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As the mourners gather in the house in Rashbam street where Rav Chaim Kanievski Zts’l spent his last years, numerous stories about the rabbi’s wondrous acts and attributes are slowly being revealed. Baruch Ben-Yigal, a bereaved father who lost his only son Amit during army duty in Samaria in 2020, came to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Politicians from the entire spectrum in Israel, including Prime Minister Bennett and President Herzog, eulogized Rabbi Chaim Kanievski and mourned his passing. Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu spoke warmly of Rabbi Kanievski and made a special trip on the night before the Levaya to pay last respects to the Rav. Netanyahu said that […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Shlomo Kanievski, the younger son of Rav Chaim Kanievski Zts’l, related personal reminiscences from growing up with his father: “Abba, how did you leave us so suddenly? Hashem took you without any preparation and with a Misas Neshika. How can we eulogize you? In order to eulogize you one needs to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — “There is a gemara which says: ‘Woe to the land of Israel’ There was a great man who passed away and they said: ‘Woe to the land of Israel’. A great man passed away and yet they made a hesped for the land of Israel. “It doesn’t say that he was the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — “I wish to share a statement of Chazal which the sages of our generation requested me to dictate to the hundreds of thousands of people of Israel here. The midrash in Shir Hashirim says that Eshkol refers to one who is ‘Ish Shehakol Bo’, he is versed in Mikra, Mishna, Talmud, Tosefta […]

BEIJING (AP) — China’s health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years driven by a surge in the highly transmissible omicron variant. The deaths, both in northeastern Jilin province, bring the country’s coronavirus death toll to 4,638. Both fatalities occurred […]

Israeli cargo planes took off for Poland on Thursday carrying 17 tons of equipment for the construction of the country’s “Kochav Meir” (Shining Star) field hospital in western Ukraine. Earlier this week, a medical delegation left for the area to assess the situation and start preparing the site. Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals from […]