ALBANY (VINnews) — Could New York State become the next Australia? A bill has been proposed by the legislature that would enable the government to detain ordinary citizens who are deemed a public health threat. In other words, the government may soon be able to lock people up if they are exposed to a contagious […]

FORSHAY (VINnews) — A large fire broke out at Yeshiva of Spring Valley Girls School on Monday. The entire school was immediately evacuated. Although the fire happened on school campus, it was not inside the school building, rather a separate facility behind the school which is under construction. Girls were safely evacuated from the campus, and […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A staff member at a school in Washington D.C. was suspended after he made a group of third graders reenact scenes from the Holocaust, including pretending to dig mass graves and shoot victims. The teacher also allegedly told the children that the Germans were angry “because the Jews ruined Christmas,” parents […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Leading Chasidic singer Mordechai Ben David Wergyger made a number of controversial statements regarding coronavirus in an interview with popular chareidi Israeli radio anchor Menachem Toker. Speaking on Radio Kol Chai on Toker’s Motzash Chai program, Werdyger called coronavirus a “pandemic of lies”. Toker did not air the statements but a number […]

NEW YORK (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Brad Lander, the incoming New York City comptroller, vowed to do everything in his power to coax Orthodox yeshivas to teach a secular curriculum. Lander, who is Jewish and a Democrat, discussed the issue Thursday night in a virtual Q-and-A with the New York Jewish Agenda, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) – Nearly 1000 people attend the funeral this morning of Yehuda Dimentman, who was killed yesterday in a terrorist attack in Samaria.

KFAR SABA (VINnews) — One of the survivors of Thursday’s horrific terror attack near the Chumash outpost has spoken to reporters from the hospital about the attack. He was asked about his friend who was killed, and said that the two were very close friends. The man who was killed was Yehuda Dimantman HY”D of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) – A 20 year old Israeli Yeshiva student was killed in a shooting attack near the Chumash outpost in northern Samaria. He was shot while driving in a vehicle near the outpost, and two other young men who were with him in the vehicle were injured in the shooting: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chaim Walder, well-known children’s author and counselor, has been summoned to appear in Bais Din, according to Israeli media reports. Dayanim say that over the past weeks, they have heard testimony and accounts from numerous victims about multiple accusations. The Bais Din is comprised of Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, Rav Reuven Nakar and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli government will authorize Sunday the appointment of Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahane as the minister responsible for overseeing the festivities at the tomb of Rashbi on Lag Ba’Omer. Kahana will have authority to change the arrangements at the tomb and restrict the number of people attending the festivities at any […]