JERUSALEM (VINnews) —. In a belligerent speech in Gaza Saturday night, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar threatened Israel repeatedly that if it “violated” Al-Aqsa again, Hamas will “not hesitate” to take action. “Our people must prepare for a great battle if the occupation does not cease its aggression against the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Sinwar said. “Violating Al-Aqsa […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An American family toured Israel and found an unexploded shell in the Golan heights which they intended to take home with them. The family came to the check-in center at Ben-Gurion airport with the unexplodedshell and showed it to securities authorities, who announced to the hundreds of travellers present that they should […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times There certainly may be heated discussions in the shuls across the country where there are multiple minyanim on an erev Shabbos. The Shul’s Rav cannot be everywhere, and at times people are unaware of his particular ruling for Sefiras HaOmer when Ma’ariv ends well before […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A 3-year-old Jewish girl was tragically killed after a fire broke out in a Jerusalem six-story residential building Thursday night. The fire broke out Thursday afternoon in an apartment building in the Geulah neighborhood, and firefighters spent one hour bringing the blaze under control. During this time, the roof of the building […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Sirens blared across Israel early Thursday as the country came to a standstill in an annual ritual honoring the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. People halted where they were walking, and drivers stopped their cars to get out of the vehicles as people bowed their heads in memory […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — President Herzog spoke at the Holocaust Memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem Wednesday night and presented two iconic pictures which he said “tell the whole story.” Herzog said that ” I stand before you, carrying in my heart this picture. A rare picture that whoever sees it cannot forget forever. The eyes see, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — About an hour ago, a medical rescue plane landed in Israel with nine elderly Holocaust survivors, along with other sick and wounded people rescued by ZAKA volunteers from the combat zones in the heart of Ukraine. The group flew in on a ZAKA medical rescue plane with the assistance of Or Avner, […]

BORO PARK (VINnews) — Governor Kathy Hochul today announced $2.6 million in funding provided by the FY 2023 Enacted Budget to support the Holocaust Survivors Initiative. This funding, to be administered by New York State Office for the Aging, will be used to increase access to health care related services, provided by community-based organizations for those who suffered in […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s highest court on Wednesday rejected the state’s new congressional district maps, which had been widely seen as favoring Democrats. The state’s Court of Appeals agreed in a ruling with a group of Republican voters who sued, saying that the district boundaries had been unconstitutionally gerrymandered and that the Legislature […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In order for democracies to defend themselves against terrorist elements, they need first and foremost to prevent incitement to terror from being broadcast and disseminated on social media and in the media. Such incitement can have a pernicious effect on those who are exposed to it and can encourage individuals to perpetrate […]