NEW YORK (VINnews) — After over three days of exhausting travel and after suffering indignities and humiliation at the hands of two airline companies, the 18 chareidi girls who were singled out and persecuted on their return from the Ukraine have finally landed at Newark airport courtesy of United Airlines. When they arrived at Amsterdam’s […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced Friday that retired Brig. Gen. Michael Herzog will serve as Israel’s next ambassador to the US. Herzog, the older brother of Israeli president Yitzchak Herzog, fought in the Yom Kippur war and later joined the Intelligence Corps where his father Chaim Herzog had served and reached the […]

LONDON (AP) — A British scientist who gained prominence for issuing dire warnings about the spread of COVID-19 said Saturday the U.K. is unlikely to need future lockdowns, although new infections may rise significantly as social interactions increase. Professor Neil Ferguson, an infectious disease expert at Imperial College London, told The Times of London that […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States crossed 100,000 new confirmed daily infections Saturday, a milestone last exceeded during the winter surge and driven by the highly transmissible delta variant and low vaccination rates in the South. Health officials fear that cases, hospitalizations and deaths will continue to soar if […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 18 chareidi girls returning to the US from the Ukraine were detained at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and claimed to have suffered antisemitic mistreatment for no reason. The girls were told to pay a huge fine of $3000 after it was claimed that they had brought food onto their plane in violation of […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A British anti-vax solicitor with no underlying health conditions died of coronavirus just days after insisting it is “nothing to be afraid of” and hoping that he had contracted the virus in order to gain natural antibodies to COVID-19. Leslie Lawrenson, 58, a solicitor from Bournemouth in Southern England, died at […]

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN has fired three employees who violated company policy by coming to work unvaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. CNN chief Jeff Zucker told staff members of the firing in a memo sent Thursday that reminded them that vaccines were mandatory if they report to the office or out in the field […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As he recovers from a breakthrough infection of the coronavirus, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday that he has urged former President Donald Trump to press his supporters to get the COVID-19 vaccine, which the South Carolina Republican called “the antidote to the virus that’s wreaking havoc on our hospitals.” “I’ve urged […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli border police raided a factory in the Bedouin town of Ar’ara in the Negev region due to a suspicion that the factory was illegally importing meat from Palestinian villages in Judea and Samaria and forging a kashrus supervision in order to sell the meat to stores around Israel. During the raid […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Jackie Wertheimer is a devoted paramedic who works for Magen David Adom (MDA) in the Jerusalem area. On a recent call on his motorcycle to the scene of an accident, Wertheimer was involved in an accident himself and is now walking with crutches. However when he heard about a collision between a […]