NEW YORK (VINnews) — During the entire course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the mainstream media has nonchalantly dismissed the notion that the pandemic could have originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. No real scientific data supported the media’s denial of this theory but the fact that the media’s nemesis, former President Donald Trump, had […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a symbolic message of building and planting where enemies seek to destroy and obliterate, the children of the Kerem Shalom kibbutz situated near the border with Gaza were taken to plant trees at 15 different spots where missiles had hit inside the kibbutz and made holes in the ground. The educational […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — With the governor out of the state, Idaho’s lieutenant governor issued an executive order Thursday banning mask mandates in schools and public buildings, saying the face-covering directives threatened people’s freedom. Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin is acting governor while Gov. Brad Little is at the Republican Governors Association conference in Nashville, […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Californians will be eligible for $116.5 million in prize money for getting coronavirus shots, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday, a windfall aimed at getting millions more vaccinated before the nation’s most populous state fully reopens next month. California isn’t the first state to offer vaccine prizes, though its pot of money […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the aftermath of the Karlin tragedy on Shavuos in which 2 chasidim were killed and hundreds injured when a bleacher collapsed, many chasidic groups have taken a hard look at the bleachers they use. Not all of the bleachers currently in use could be considered to maintain safety standards. A channel […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In the wake of the spate of anti-Semitic attacks on Jews in the US, Aaron Keyak, President Joe Biden’s Jewish Engagement Director, tweeted that “It pains me to say this, but if you fear for your life or physical safety take off your kippah and hide your magen david. (Obviously, if […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — An Indian couple attempted to circumvent COVID-19 restrictions on their wedding by holding it in midair. The couple chartered a passenger jet for their 160 guests and took them on an hour’s joyride in which they staged the wedding celebration. The airline and civil aviation authorities however were not amused, since […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday asked the U.S. intelligence community to “redouble” its efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. He said there is insufficient evidence to conclude “whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.” Biden, in a statement said the majority […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Thousands of Belz chasidim celebrated Tuesday night the wedding of the rebbe’s grandson R’ Dovid Rokach, a son of his only son Rabbi Aharon Rokach. The wedding took place at the Arena stadium in south Jerusalem R’ David is the seventh grandchild and fifth grandson of the rebbe to be married. His […]

LONDON (JTA) – What would it be like to go to sleep one day and suddenly wake up in a world turned upside down by COVID-19? Eli Seliger, an Orthodox Jewish father of seven from London, has a pretty good idea. In March 2020, long before anyone knew the scope of the pandemic in the […]