NEW YORK (VINnews) — The brother of the British terrorist who barricaded himself in a Texas temple on January 15 and took four people hostage said that his brother had been radicalized by “religious nuts” . Gulbar Akram, brother of Malik Faisal Akram who was shot dead as federal agents stormed the temple, has called […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Agudath Israel of America published a letter Monday from the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America strongly criticizing the current Israeli government’s anti-religious actions. The letter called on the Israeli government not to intrude on “the realm of Torah, mitzvos and Jewish education” and called on Jews worldwide to pray for the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Irish police opened an investigation into a bizarre incident in which two men carried a dead body into an Irish post office in an apparent attempt to claim his pension. The The deceased pensioner was allegedly  “propped up” by the men as they walked into the building in County Carlow on Friday […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Chief Justice Miriam Naor, who headed the government commission of inquiry into the Meron tragedy last year, passed away Monday morning at the age of 74. Naor recently published the interim findings of the commission regarding the Lag Ba’Omer tragedy, which took the lives of 45 people. Just hours before, Naor […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Hundreds of Chasidim of the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak sect demonstrated outside a cellular phone store in central Geula Sunday evening. The chasidim were dispersed by police, who used water cannon and other dispersal methods on the  gathering. ירושלים,דיווח על שוטר פצוע בהפגנה נגד חנות סלולר בשכונת גאולה

NEW YORK (VINnews) — BDE: The Torah community in the US mourns the loss of Rabbi Chananya Yomtov Lipa Margulies, the Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Temimah, who passed away on Motzaei Shabbos at the age of 97. Rabbi Margulies, a Satmar chassid, was born in Horench, Hungary to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Margulies, who was a […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Some 16,000 Israelis lives were saved by the vaccines against coronavirus, according to an estimate by Professor Itamar Grotto, former director of public health at the Health Ministry and the deputy director-general of the ministry. Grotto’s findings are based on a study by the ECDC, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A minor earthquake shook the northern region of Israel Sunday afternoon, the second in a number of hours. The quake measured 3.5 on the Richter scale according to the Israel Geological Survey, and  was centered 16 km south of Tiberias, near the town of Bet Shean. There were no immediate reports of […]

LOS ANGELES (VINnews) — Leftist Bari Weiss, a Jewish journalist and author, stunned many people when she went on an epic tirade against Covid restrictions. Even more shocking, the crowd she appeared in front of, presumably full of liberals, cheered wildly in agreement. Appearing on Bill Maher’s television show, Weiss, the former NY Times editor, […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent, the youngest age of any state, under a proposal late Thursday by a state senator. Alabama allows such decisions at age 14, Oregon at 15, Rhode Island and South Carolina at 16, according to Sen. Scott […]