JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On Sunday afternoon, August 14 at 3 PM, members of the Givat Yearim Educational Center, a yeshiva which caters to boys with learning disorders, ADHD and emotional issues, smelt a sharp smell of fire. Students who looked outside saw a wall of flame moving towards the hilltop community situated south of the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Extremist chareidi elements in Jerusalem are accusing United Hatzalah of transgressing prohibitions of yichud by training female EMTs to go to emergency calls. Posters plastered on walls claim that there are issues of Yichud (seclusion) when Hatzalah volunteers enter the homes of sick patients. The claim is strange since even male EMTs […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a tragic incident which occurred outside the Denver Yeshiva, a 19-year-old yeshiva student was shot and killed early Wednesday morning. The  victim was standing in front of the dormitories of Yeshiva Toras Chaim at 1555 Stuart Street when a vehicle pulled up and an assailant opened fire from inside, striking […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The historic wedding of the Gerrer Rebbe’s granddaughter took place Tuesday evening in Monsey, N.Y. at the Vizhnitz Beis Midrash. Thousands of chasidim attended the wedding and huge screens were set up via satellite in the Ger center in Jerusalem so that thousands of Israeli chasidim could participate in the rejoicing. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzchak Yehuda Yaruslavski, the senior Chabad rabbi in Israel who also serves as rabbi of the Chabad community in Kiryat Malachi, has issued a sharp letter regarding those who oppose COVID-19 vaccinations. The current spike in cases in Israel has affected the chareidi community as well and in particular Chabad communities […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chareidi marathon runner Beatie Deutsch just missed the cutoff for the Olympic 2020 marathon race, but even getting close to an Olympic time is pretty amazing just five years after starting a career running marathons while serving as a full-time mother of 4 who even ran a marathon while pregnant with her […]

JERUSALEM — Israel says that more than 1 million people over the age of 50 have received a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Israel began offering the boosters to its older population two weeks ago, becoming the first country in the world using a western vaccine to do so. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — IDF soldiers in the Binyamin region arrested a Palestinian in his 20’s on Monday afternoon dressed in a soldier’s uniform. The terrorist was identified by local residents walking on the main road near the community of Maale Levona in the Binyamin region. The resident’s suspicions were raised by the fake IDF uniform […]

NEW YORK (VINnews/JTA) — Video from a packed engagement party is roiling the Jewish community of Melbourne, Australia, amid a growing outbreak of COVID-19 that has extended yet another stringent lockdown there. Compliance with local rules has been spotty across Melbourne during the latest lockdown, which comes after a year and a half of intense restrictions […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The fire which spread Sunday in the Jerusalem Hills destroyed 17,000 dunams of forests, four times more than the fire last June which broke out near Neve Ilan just a few miles north of the current location. The fire continued to burn throughout the night and the fire commission reported that more […]