WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials warned parents on Thursday not to use three popular powdered infant formulas manufactured at an Abbott plant in Michigan that investigators recently linked to bacterial contamination. The Food and Drug Administration said it is investigating four reports of infants who were hospitalized after consuming the formula, including one who […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says the country’s coronavirus vaccination “green pass” system will be suspended as new daily cases of COVID-19 continue to decline. Naftali Bennett said Thursday after meeting with health officials that Israel’s omicron wave “has been broken” and that additional reductions in coronavirus restrictions were forthcoming. The Green Pass, Israel’s […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Louisiana citizen jailed for 100 years in 1977 for the attempted aggravated rape of 14-year-old twin sisters has been released after a judge declared that he was not given a fair trial when convicted. Vincent Simmons, the black man convicted of the crime, spent nearly 45 years Angola State Penitentiary […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Religious Affairs minister Matan Kahane is working at numerous levels to effect a change in the law for Chief Rabbinate elections which would enable him to block a number of his most vociferous critics, including Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, from serving as chief rabbi from 2023. On Sunday, Moshe Tur-Paz, a religious member […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Soldiers from the chareidi Netzach Yehuda battalion saved the life of a Palestinian resident who asked them for medical assistance moments before he collapsed. The incident took place at a checkpoint in the Binyamin region. The Palestinian man arrived at the checkpoint Tuesday evening and told the soldiers that he was not […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — At a meeting of the Knesset’s socioeconomic committee Tuesday, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman said that he intends to halve the number of hours that chareidi men must spend in study in order to qualify for state stipends, freeing up their time to join the workforce. Liberman said that the idea was to provide […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Turkish man suffering from leukemia has tested positive for coronavirus no less than 78 times in the past 14 months but has remained cheerful and hopes to get well soon. Muzaffer Kayasan, 56, was detected with the virus in November 2020 and has spent nine months in a hospital and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Owners of cellphone stores from many chareidi districts in Israel came to the Knesset’s Internal Affairs committee to describe the harassment and violence they are experiencing from elements in the community. The owner of the Didi Phone store in Bnei Brak, who has suffered from repeated harassment and raucous demonstrations outside his […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Farms that raise turkeys and chickens for meat and eggs are on high alert and taking steps to increase biosecurity, fearing a repeat of a widespread bird flu outbreak in 2015 that killed 50 million birds across 15 states and cost the federal government nearly $1 billion. The new fear […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the new anti-chareidi edicts issued by the Bennett government, the gedolim in Israel including Rabbi Chaim Kanievski and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein have published a letter calling on the public to pray that the new enactments will be cancelled. The letter states that “we are currently in a situation […]