JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A group of national-religious girls were attacked by extremists while walking through the Meah Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem on their way to the flag parade on Tuesday. The girls were pelted with water bags and catcalled by the extremist elements, who called the police.  When they arrived, police attempted to create a […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, continued her tour of Israel and spoke with Fox News outside Israel’s Knesset about the dangers of the Iran deal as well as other regional issues. Haley said that Biden is “trying to buy friends” and stressed that the US must instead take tough […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A 22-year-old Chareidi youth was killed Monday evening in a road accident in the Jordan Valley near Yericho, just a week before he was supposed to get married. Shlomo Rottenberg, a student at the Shaarei Torah- Biale yeshiva in Jerusalem, was  prayers at Meron and other tombs of righteous people when he […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Walt Disney World in Florida is making it easier to see smiles again, but guests still can’t hug the characters. Starting Tuesday, face masks will be optional for visitors to the theme park resort who are vaccinated, though Disney workers won’t require proof of vaccination, the company said on its website. […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In an almost biblical reenactment of the story of Jonah, a lobster diver off the coast of Cape Cod was literally swallowed by a humpback whale and then released back into the water without suffering significant injury. Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, Mass., said on social media that he was diving […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — New COVID-19 cases are declining across most of the country, even in some states with vaccine-hesitant populations. But almost all states bucking that trend have lower-than-average vaccination rates, and experts warn that relief from the pandemic could be fleeting in regions where few people get inoculated. Case totals nationally have declined […]

Prime Minister-Designate Naftali Bennett addressed the Knesset Sunday ahead of a confidence vote. Here is the full text of his speech, as released by his office: H.E. President Reuven Rivlin; President-elect Isaac Herzog; Mr. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; President of the Supreme Court, Justice Esther Hayat; Speaker of the Knesset Yariv Levin; my partner in […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. regulators are allowing the release of 10 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine from a troubled Baltimore factory, but many other doses can’t be used and must be thrown out. The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it had determined that two batches from the plant, which is […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Soldiers from the Home Command’s Yonatan company which is comprised of chareidim came to the city of Sderot for a seminar. At the same time they  held a memorial vigil outside the house of Ido Avigal, the 5-year-old child who was killed after a rocket pierced the protected roomhe was sitting in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden administration has exempted most employers from long-awaited rules for protecting workers from the coronavirus, angering labor advocates who had spent more than a year lobbying for the protections. The Labor Department included only health care workers in its new emergency temporary standard published Thursday. The rules require employers to […]