JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A huge fire broke out at the Beirach Moshe-Satmar shul in Geulah on Shabbos morning at 4:30 AM. The entire Beis Midrash was gutted and significant damage was caused to the Talmud Torah situated on the upper floor. Some of the Sifrei Torah and Tefillin were damaged in the fire but firemen […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an attempt to demonstrate the moral level of its soldiers while in action, the IDF published a conversation between one of the combatants in Shechem during Wednesday’s operation and his commander. The soldier has seen an armed Palestinian terrorist near him but behind the terrorist there is a child. The soldier […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A 27-year-old female terrorist who brandished a knife and attempted to carry out a stabbing attack at the entrance of Maale Adumin, on Jerusalem’s eastern outskirts on Thursday morning was neutralized by security forces at the scene. The terrorist was hit in the lower body and suffered moderate injuries. There were no […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli warplanes attacked installations of the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning, according to an IDF report. The attack came hours after Palestinians fired six rockets into southern Israel in an apparent revenge attack for the Israeli operation in Shechem on Wednesday, which led to the deaths of […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — BDE: In a terrible tragedy which occurred early Thursday morning in the city of Kiryas Joel, Monroe, a fire which broke out in a local home claimed the lives of three people: R’ Kalman Glustein, his wife and seven-year-old daughter. The fire apparently broke out late in the night as the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jerusalem District Prosecutor submitted an indictment against a 13-year-old Jerusalem resident on charges of attempted murder. The youth perpetrated the terror attack three weeks ago in the City of David, in which IDF officer Nadav Weinberg was seriously injured. Weinberg succeeded in shooting the terrorist and preventing him from continuing his […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The IDF and police special forces are conducting an unusual daylight operation in Shechem in an attempt to arrest wanted terror suspects. Heavy fire has broken out as the forces attempted to surround a house in the heart of the city with terror suspects inside. The surprise raid was initiated after Shin […]

JORDAN (VINnews) — In a disgraceful display, Jordanian government officials cut the leather straps off the Tefillin of Dubai’s Sefardic Chief Rabbi. Airport security officials in Amman slashed Rabbi Moshe Khaliva’s Tefillin as he attempted to board a connecting flight to Abu Dhabi. According to the Jordanians, the leather straps could be used “to hang […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Despite the incessant shelling and sirens in the Ukrainian capital, a unique and moving Jewish event occurred on Monday in Kyiv, Ukraine. Three older Jews, one of them aged 86, elected to have a Bris Milah and join the covenant of Avraham Avinu. Rabbi Moshe Asman, the chief rabbi of Ukraine, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After the recent devastating earthquake in Turkey, a delegation of ZAKA voluntary emergency response teams from Israel scoured the ruins of Antakya, Turkey, searching for the remains of the president of the tiny, 2,200-year-old Jewish community. After they had located the president and his wife, who were tragically killed in the earthquake, […]