JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the food poisoning outbreak among the Vizhnitz-Boro Park chasidim who returned this week from a visit to Mezhibozh in the Ukraine, an additional 11 chasidic youths visiting from Israel are reportedly suffering from similar symptoms of salmonella poisoning. The youths, from a prominent chasidic yeshiva in Jerusalem, were […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Tens of chasidic youths and one of their teachers were hospitalized on return from the Ukraine to New York due to suspected food poisoning. The youths, members of the Vizhnitz-Boro Park chasidic group, had been visiting the tombs of Tzadikim (righteous persons) to pray during the month of Elul. During the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett outlined his policies regarding Judea and Samaria in a New York Times interview published Wednesday, two days prior to his meeting with President Biden, causing sharp reactions from the right-wing opposition. Bennett said that due to the broad and diversified composition of his government, there would be […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the course of security activities and arrests of wanted terrorists in the Balata refugee camp near Shechem, Palestinians opened fire at IDF troops and rioted, throwing blocks and items from rooftops at the IDF force. In a similar situation last year, Staff Sergeant Amit Ben Yigal of the Golani Reconnaissance Battalion, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Paralympic swimmer Iyad Shalabi has won the gold medal for the 100-meter backstroke final in the S1 category at the Tokyo Paralympics on Wednesday. This is Israel’s first gold medal in this Paralympics and the first won by an Arab Israeli in any Olympic competition. The 34-year-old Shalabi from the town of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Torah world mourns the passing of Rebbetzin Sara Finkel, mother of Mir Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel Zts’l, at the age of 101. Rebbetzin Finkel was lucid until her last day but on Tuesday night she collapsed at her home in the Gush Shemonim neighborhood adjacent to Bar Ilan street […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — From Walt Disney World to Goldman Sachs, a flurry of private and public employers are requiring workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after the federal government gave full approval to the Pfizer shot. And the number is certain to grow much higher. For the past eight months, coronavirus shots were dispensed in […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — New daily coronavirus infections in Israel are approaching record levels, despite the country’s largely successful vaccination campaign and the recent rollout of the world’s first widespread booster shot. The spread of the virus has been driven by a surge in the delta variant — even among the vaccinated — and […]

ATLANTA — More than 100 National Guard personnel are being deployed to 20 hospitals across Georgia to help deal with the state’s latest surge of COVID-19 cases, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Tuesday. The 105 medically trained Guardsmen and women will help staff at hospitals in Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Brunswick, Albany and other cities across […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a tragic incident which occurred in Antwerp Tuesday morning, a truck ran over and killed two chareidi sisters while reversing near a crosswalk. The two girls aged 9 and 1, who are members of a prominent family of Ger chasidim residing in Antwerp, were crossing the street on their scooter […]