JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a moving letter written before he took his own life, Chaim Walder continues to insist that he is innocent. Walder wrote that “I have gone to summon Yehuda Silman and Shmuel Eliyahu to a Din Torah in heaven. I have come to the conclusion that in the world of lies I […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett entered quarantine Sunday after his daughter tested positive for coronavirus, according to a government spokesman. Despite receiving the news, Bennett did not immediately isolate and instead attended a Yamina meeting on the Golan heights before self-isolating. However Bennett took a rapid antigen test before the meeting and tested […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chaim Walder, the popular children’s author accused of inappropriate moral behavior in recent weeks, has been found dead near his son’s grave in Segula cemetery in Petach Tikva. Walder’s books were banned by the Beis Din of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and Rabbi Yehuda Silman and Rabbi Eliyahu claimed that there were numerous […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Night Shift, a trendy Tel Aviv bar, was open for many years on Shabbat and catered to the secular community in the Florentin neighborhood. Gabi Geuli, the owner of the bar, decided recently to make the bar kosher and close on Shabbat. Geuli told Arutz Sheva about the remarkable growth he had […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A stunning conversation took place between a well known proponent of the anti-vaccine movement in Israel and a vaccine supporter, both Charedim. During the heated phone call, anti-vaxxer Rabbi Dr. Yoav Alon debated Itcha Dzalovski, who is in charge of the Health Ministry’s Charedi phone hotline. The discussion, as reported on Charedi […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel is experiencing a steep rise in coronavirus cases including the Omicron variant. On Friday and Shabbat the number of people infected with Omicron in Israel doubled and the total number of people testing positive was 2,285, the highest number since October 13th. 1,118 Israelis have tested positive for Omicron,723 of them […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — IDF forces prevented a water tank from entering the yeshiva in Chomesh, leaving 70 yeshiva students, 4 families and 10 children without water during Shabbat. Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan said that “the students at Chomesh yeshiva are receiving worse treatment than enemies. Even during the Yom Kippur war when the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Jewish real estate agent from Florida was shot and killed by a tenant who had been evicted from a building and mistakenly identified her as the owner of the building. Sarah-Mitchell Trost (40) was sitting in the driver’s seat of her jeep when she was shot several times by Raymond […]

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are warning the public not to eat certain brands of packaged salads, which they say are linked to two small, long-running listeria outbreaks in which three people died. One outbreak is linked to packaged salads produced by Fresh Express and another has been tied to packaged salads produced […]

Anti-vaccine posters that featured a Star of David on them were discovered in at least two Los Angeles-area locations this week, including pasted to an electrical box outside a synagogue. The first was found outside the Baba Sale Congregation and showed the letters “A” and “V” overlapping to form a Star of David. The same […]