TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that people who decide not to get a COVID-19 vaccine might be making the wrong choice, but defended their right to make that choice. Speaking a day after holding a news conference to condemn vaccine mandates, DeSantis agreed that vaccines save lives. “There are […]

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge temporarily blocked the state of New York on Tuesday from forcing medical workers to be vaccinated after a group of health care workers sued, saying their Constitutional rights were violated because the state’s mandate disallowed religious exemptions. Judge David Hurd in Utica issued the order after 17 health […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – COVID-19 deaths and cases in the U.S. have climbed back to levels not seen since last winter, wiping out months of progress and potentially bolstering President Joe Biden’s argument for his sweeping new vaccination requirements. The cases — driven by the delta variant combined with resistance among some Americans to getting the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — If there is one day of the year which is almost impossible to reconstruct for secular people it would be Yom Kippur. While other festivals can be construed in different ways, with Purim seen as a time of carnivals and dressing up, Pesach as a time for extolling liberty and Shavuos as […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tal Rahamim is a resident of the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood in Jerusalem, located just a few yards away from the Police Headquarters. However police apparently have not got round to patrolling even the neighborhood adjacent to their headquarters because Tal has been hit by vandalism on three consecutive occasions during the past […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — MK Meir Porush of the UTJ party was attacked outside his home Monday morning by an unknown assailant who tried to cut his beard with scissors. The attack occurred when Porush left his house in the Shikkun Rabbanim neighborhood of Jerusalem. The suspect, who wore Chareidi clothes, escaped on a scooter. Police […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A former school principal extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court on Monday to hear evidence behind child sex abuse charges against her. A committal hearing began in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to decide whether there is sufficient evidence against Malka Leifer to warrant the […]

LONDON (VINnews) — A man who placed a pillowcase over a heavily pregnant chareidi woman’s head before punching her “several times” to the head has pleaded guilty to a single count of assault. However the court did not deem the attack an anti-semitic and sent the man for observation. Keith Gowers, 59, followed his victim, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Eitan Biran, the sole survivor of the cable car crash in Northern Italy in May which took the lives of his parents, mother’s grandparents and brother, has been smuggled back to Israel by his other grandfather. The boy has been the subject of a struggle for adoption between two of his aunts, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After a 5-day manhunt by Israeli police and Shin Bet agents, 4 out of the 6 terrorists who escaped from the Gilboa prison have been apprehended by police. Two of the terrorists were found hiding in Nazareth where local residents reported them to police on Friday evening. The other two, including terrorist […]