Israeli importer of Abbott products warns parents using PM60/40, sold only under prescription, to seek appropriate alternatives; two other products recalled last week

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Department for Police Internal Investigations submitted to the Jerusalem Magistrates Court an indictment against detectives Shai Ezra Eliyahu and Yotam Gargir, who attacked chareidi youth Chaim Mizrachi in Geula last January, causing him severe physical and psychological damage. Additionally, the detective was charged with obstructing justice by writing a false report […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Ukrainian army is composed of large numbers of conscripts, some of whom are Jewish. David Tzerkaski, a Chabad chasid from the city of Dniepro in central Ukraine, fought together with his father, R’ Asher Yosef, in 2014 against the Russians during the battles in Donetsk. Now once again, he has […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — “It says that one mustn’t cry on Shabbos but this Shabbos I couldn’t hold back tears three times,” Rebbetzin Miriam Moskowitz, the Chabad emissary in Kharkiv, described. “The first time was on Friday night when we succeed in getting to the shul. At kiddush we were downstairs in the dining room […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly half of the 500 million free COVID-19 tests the Biden administration recently made available to the public still have not been claimed as virus cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test. Wild demand swings have been a subplot in the pandemic, from vaccines to hand sanitizer, along with tests. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Likud MK Nir Barkat has refused to receive his salary since entering the Knesset in 2019. The salaries, which are required to be taken by law, have accumulated during this period to nearly 2 million NIS and are included in Israel’s budgetary requests to transfer budgets from 2021 to 2022. The Knesset […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky spoke Saturday night with Jewish leaders in the country including Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich and asked them to pray for the welfare of the country. Zelensky said that he has also spoken with the other religious leaders in the country, including the head of the local […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Clips taken by gentiles on Shabbos show Jewish refugees making kiddush on Friday night in the open  while fleeing from the Ukraine. Over the entire Shabbos a convoy of four buses with hundreds of refugees from the Jewish community of Odessa travelled towards the Western Ukraine on a dramatic and tense […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The third day of fighting in the Ukraine including continued battles raging across the country, with the outgunned Ukrainians succeeding in holding their capital and other key cities despite repeated Russian attacks. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky remained defiant, urging his citizens to defend the country with whatever they have. “We have […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The second day of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine has seen Russia attempting to consolidate its territorial gains and close in on Kyiv, the capital of the Ukraine, despited determined resistance from the outgunned Ukrainian army. 10:31 GMT – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow will only be ready […]