NEW YORK (VINnews) — The secret burial site of Shlomo Halberantz, leader of the Lev Tahor cult who drowned in 2017 in a Mexican river, is causing concern to members of the cult, who fear that the Guatemalan government will discover the illegal burial site and exhume the bodies to a Christian graveyard. The cult […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Esther Pollard, wife of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, died on Monday from coronavirus-related complications at the age of 68. Pollard had battled breast cancer for years. Last week she was hospitalized in Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital after being infected with coronavirus but her condition deteriorated and she passed away early Monday […]

ISRAEL (VINnews) — The Meron Project Manager is holding talks this week with Charedi Rabbonim and Admorim, to develop a plan for this year’s Lag B’omer celebration. Brigadier-General Tzviki Tessler is trying to balance the desires conveyed by Charedi leaders with the need to maintain the highest degree of safety for the massive crowds. Tessler […]

Patients worried about getting hit with an unexpected bill after emergency care gained a layer of protection this month from a new federal law. The No Surprises Act prevents doctors or hospitals in many situations from billing insured patients higher rates because the care providers are not in their insurer’s coverage network. The law won’t […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A new lethal version of coronavirus known as NeoCoV has been discovered by Chinese scientists in Wuhan. The new version is currently only known to spread among bats but could theoretically be transmittable to humans with one mutation, according to the study published by the Chinese scientists. The study, which has […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Rabbi Dovid Moshe Lieberman, the oldest Chabad rav who survived WWII and served Jewish communities in Chicago, Detroit, and the Chief Rabbi of Antwerp, Belgium, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 97. He was buried on Friday on Har Hazeisim in Jerusalem. Rabbi Lieberman was born in 1925 in […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prominent Israeli publicists and social media activists including the editor of the Besheva newspaper have called for a boycott on the popular snack Doritos after it featured a controversial ad supporting alternative families. The ad, timed for Israel’s Family Day on February 1st,  featured all kinds of alternative families and declared: “Is […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A chareidi family from Israel sent Israeli passports to their friends in Boro Park in order to help them send them to the correct place in the US in order to gain American citizenship. The envelope arrived at the correct address in Boro Park but when the family opened the door […]

Gas stoves are contributing more to global warming than previously thought because of constant tiny methane leaks while they’re off, a new study found. The same study that tested emissions around stoves in homes raised new concerns about indoor air quality and health because of levels of nitrogen oxides measured. Even when they are not […]

TORONTO (AP) — A large crowd gathered outside a mall north of Toronto on Thursday to cheer a group of local truckers preparing to join a convoy to Ottawa protesting Canada’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for cross-border drivers. Some in the crowd threw cash and food up to drivers inside their truck cabs at the Vaughan […]