NEW YORK (VINnews) — The plight of Ukraine’s estimated 200,000 Jews is concerning Jewish leaders worldwide, as communities wander on various routes under fire and with few physical possessions to maintain them. The Satmar Rebbe Rabbi Aharon called his close associates Friday night, including Rabbi Dovid Shlomo Eckstein, one of the leaders of the Mishmeres […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — After many Ukrainian civilians have been killed as they fled from bombarded cities, a defiant President Zelensky announced Sunday that “We will not forgive, we will not forget, we will punish everyone who committed atrocities in this war on our land,” Zelensky added that “We will punish everyone who committed atrocities […]

NEW YORK (AP) — In better times, Ukrainian drone enthusiasts flew their gadgets into the sky to photograph weddings, fertilize soybean fields or race other drones for fun. Now some are risking their lives by forming a volunteer drone force to help their country repel the Russian invasion. “Kyiv needs you and your drone at […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Despite another night of shells pounding Ukrainian cities, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov was optimistic Monday. Reznikov stated that “the government and international partners are working to enable the Armed Forces to defend the state even more effectively. Significant progress has been made on arms and ammunition supplies.” Reznikov added in […]

Israel will set up a field hospital in Ukraine next week, according to the country’s Health Ministry. “This is the least we can do to help the Ukrainian people in the face of a brutal Russian invasion,” Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said on Sunday morning during a visit to the Sheba Medical Center at Tel […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A new psak by Rabbi Moshe Bransdorfer states that members of the new Ramah Daled neighborhood in the city must celebrate Purim for 2 days. A number of rabbis in the neighborhood asked Rabbi Bransdorfer, who heads the rabbinical court of Heichal Horaah to rule on the issue, which has become relevant […]

BANGKOK (AP) — The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million — underscoring that the pandemic, now in its third year, is far from over. The milestone is the latest tragic reminder of the unrelenting nature of the pandemic even as people are shedding masks, travel is resuming […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Two policemen were wounded in a stabbing attack which occurred in Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday morning. The terrorist, a 19-year-old Arab from the Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur, was shot dead, according to official reports. The youth approached police officers with a knife and attacked them at around 4:30 A.M. Sunday. The […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In response to growing internal and external opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Putin signed Friday a new “Fake News” law, stating that anyone spreading what the government decides is “fake” news about the country’s military faces a jail term of up to 15 years. Moreover a sliding scale of […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Imagine a scenario reminiscent of 1945, when Russian tanks pulverized Nazi Germany, Russian airlines bombed indiscriminately and Russian soldiers caused untold devastation as they fought, raped and pillaged their way through Germany’s cities. No Jew living then would have felt an iota of compassion for the German civilian population after the […]