JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Three Israelis making a documentary in Nigeria on a forgotten Jewish community were arrested last week and charged with making contact with anti-government separatist elements. One of the three is prominent Jewish and Israel rights activist Rudy Rochman, who has 95,000 followers on Instagram. Rochman was with filmmaker Noam Leibman and French-Israeli […]

CALIFORNIA (AP) – In a medical first, researchers harnessed the brain waves of a paralyzed man unable to speak — and turned what he intended to say into sentences on a computer screen. It will take years of additional research but the study, reported Wednesday, marks an important step toward one day restoring more natural […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — 43-year old Janice Kerwick had resigned herself to remaining childless after a decade of attempts to get pregnant with her 39-year-old husband Daniel, including IVF treatments, had all failed. Therefore when she suffered stomach pains over the last few months, she was certain that she was not pregnant but mystified about […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Wednesday that the country can beat a concerning rise in new coronavirus cases without a nationwide shutdown, but that depends in part on people wearing masks indoors to suppress the spread of the highly contagious delta variant. “The easiest thing is to do what they did […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Fashion podcaster Recho Omondi has been under attack after her undisguised anti-Semitic diatribe during the course of an interview with socialite and ManRepeller founder Leandra Medine Cohen. During the interview, Medine Cohen stated that she had not until recently realized that she had grown up rich, despite growing up on the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman and Economic Affairs Minister Orna Barbivai announced Wednesday that the cancellation of day care subsidies for kollel students will be postponed for a few months. The new regulation was supposed to take effect in September but in the wake of the public outcry over the move, Liberman agreed […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — More than 60 Jewish children whose fathers are Arabs and who were rescued in the last few years from Arab villages participated in special summer camps organized by the Yad Le’Achim organization at a large location in northern Israel. The camp included lawns, swimming pools, trampolines, playgrounds and other amenities and was […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the course of a speech in the Knesset plenum Monday, MK Yisrael Eichler read a moving letter by a chareidi child whose family would be hit by the new regulations being implemented by Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman. Eichler addressed his initial remarks to Prime Minister Bennett, stating that “I thought you […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine may pose a “small possible risk” of a rare but potentially dangerous neurological reaction, U.S. health officials said Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement it has received reports of 100 people who got the shot developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, an immune system […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Higher Academic Council can allow gender-separate programs for academic studies in order to enable the integration of the chareidi community into academia. The court was ruling in response to a petition seeking to close the gender-separate programs since they discriminate against females by preventing […]