EFRAT (VINnews) — This week, Rabbi Efrem Goldberg of Boca Raton Synagogue and Rabbi Shay Schachter of Young Israel of Woodmere traveled to Israel to visit Rabbi Leo Dee in Efrat. In an unspeakable tragedy, Rabbi Dee lost his wife Lucy and daughters Maia and Rina HY”D, in an April 7th terrorist attack in the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — German artist Boris Eldagsen decided on a whim to create an AI image and send it to a major photography competition. What happened next surprised even him- the computer-generated image won first prize in the competition. Eldagsen revealed to the judges that he had used AI to create the picture and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Police and rescue teams are scouring the Kinneret lake from Wednesday evening, searching for a 22-year-old chareidi resident of Elad who is missing on the lake. Police used Coast Guard motorboats, water motorcycles and helicopters in an attempt to locate the youth, who had apparently jumped into the water from a kayak […]

BDE: Cantor Moshe Stern, one of the most prominent Ashkenazi Chazanim who attained fame around the world for his powerful voice and moving renditions , has passed away at age 87. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1935, Stern studied under his father, R’ Yisrael Stern who served as the chief chazan at Har Tzion in Jerusalem. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As Israel’s national memorial day looms, the country is still riven by polemic and social discord, leading to fears that the day which commemorates the tens of thousands who have died in Israels’ wars and in terrorist acts will be marred by friction and conflict. For this reason, members of the anti-reform […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a tragic incident which occurred last week in Israel, a 16-year-old boy whose lungs had collapsed and who was on an Ecmo life support machine detached himself from the machine for unknown reasons and died almost immediately afterwards. The 16-year-old had been vaping for a long time before his lungs failed […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Professor Efraim Inbar, one of the leading conservative strategic studies experts and founder of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies (JISS), has called on Israel to initiative a “preventative war against Hezbollah” as part of its strategy for preventing Iranian influence in the region. In a Jerusalem Post opinion article, Inbar wrote […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli special police forces and IDF troops arrested the terrorist who perpetrated the shooting attack in the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood in which two Breslov chasidim were injured Tuesday. The terrorist, a 15-year-old resident of the Askar refugee camp, shot the two men at point-blank range on Tuesday morning, but apparently had a […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A new Knesset bill submitted by MK Erez Malul (Shas) seeks to provide a significant discount to Holocaust survivors seeking to purchase burial plots in Israel. The new bill proposes that the price for a burial plot for Holocaust survivors will not exceed 50% of the price paid by people who are […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance day, marked in Israel from Monday evening, US President Joe Biden posted on his Twitter account a statement in which he equated between the “6 million Jews” who died in the Holocaust and “millions of other innocent lives lost during one of the darkest chapters […]