JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Popular Israeli radio broadcaster Menachem Toker has teamed up with businessman Dedi Graucher in an attempt to establish a Kollel for Torah study adjacent to the prime minister’s residence in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Rehavia. Toker, an energetic and innovative broadcaster at the Kol Chai chareidi radio station, has led a number […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Rindenow, who lost his youngest son Shlomo in an IDF military accident four years ago, passed away from coronavirus at the age of 64 just four months after immigrating to Israel. At his request he was buried next to his son. Rindenow, a father of nine from Passaic, New […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — If Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik had passed away exactly a year ago, the pictures from his funeral would have been inspiring and uplifting. The fact that tens of thousands of people show their last respects to a rabbi who was so advanced in years demonstrates the honor that people convey towards Torah […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli Cabinet has voted to extend a nationwide lockdown for at least five more days as it struggles to bring a raging coronavirus outbreak under control. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced early Monday that the restrictions, which have forced nonessential businesses and most schools to remain closed for the past […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten Republican senators on Sunday proposed spending about one-third of what President Joe Biden is seeking in coronavirus aid and urged him to negotiate rather than try to ram through his $1.9 trillion package solely on Democratic votes. In challenging Biden to fulfill his pledge of unity, the group said in a […]

BERLIN (AP) — Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union during the first quarter, the bloc’s executive arm said Sunday. The new target of 40 million doses by the end of March is still only half what the British-Swedish company had originally aimed […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A skier at the Romanian mountain resort of Predeal was startled to discover a brown bear chasing after him as he skied down the mountain. The scene was captured on video by shocked onlookers, who tried to distract the bear by whistling and screaming but the bear continued to bear down […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — For the second time on the same day, the Torah world was plunged into mourning with the news of the passing of Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner, the Rosh Yeshiva of Kamenetz just hours after the passing of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, the Rosh Yeshiva of Brisk. Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner was born according to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Torah world mourns the passing of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, the last surviving son of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze’ev of Brisk, the Brisker Rov, who passed away in Jerusalem Sunday at the age of 99. Rabbi Soloveitchik was the fifth of twelve children and the third son of his father. He was […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Calling a hospital to see if a bed was available for a COVID-19 patient isn’t part of Houston television news anchor Chauncy Glover’s job description. Neither is guiding a viewer online to find a place to be vaccinated. He’s done both, and isn’t alone. Listeners and readers across the country are […]