UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — A medical helicopter crashed Tuesday in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia, with four people on board including an infant all expected to survive, authorities said. Rescue crews rushed to the crash near a church at an intersection in Upper Darby’s Drexel Hill neighborhood at about 1 p.m. and helped […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Production of a new television series by the Kan Corporation was abruptly halted, following a mass demonstration by Charedi extremists. The new drama, “Malach HaMashchis” (Angel of Destruction), was being filmed at a printing house in the Geula neighborhood on Tuesday. According to a report in Yisrael Hayom, dozens of extremist demonstrators […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A pilot who crashed a small plane onto railroad tracks was pulled alive from the wreck by a group of Los Angeles Police officers just moments before a commuter train roared through, authorities said. Video of the harrowing rescue shows the officers pulling the bloodied man to safety seconds before the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — With tourism drastically down as a result of Corona, Israel’s financial road to recovery hangs in the balance. Today, Baila and Cindy from the VINnews podcast ‘The Definitive Rap’ sat down with Erica Schachane, editor of The National Magazine and Jerusalem Post. Schachane discusses how Israelis are living their lives with regard […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Moshe Meiselman, the esteemed Rosh Yeshiva of Toras Moshe in Yerushalayim, spoke at length about the Chaim Walder case. His comments were nothing short of explosive. The Rosh Yeshiva said that Walder was a “rasha merusha, absolutely without question.” He added that in addition to his years of abusing people, the […]

FLORIDA (VINnews) — Florida’s very first Orthodox Jewish police officer has been hired. The North Miami Beach Police Department swore in Florida’s Yehuda Topper on Thursday at the Senator Gwen Margolis Amphitheatre. City manager Arthur Sorrey commented on the development, saying “It’s a big deal for us,” noting also that the city is home to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — According to a press release from the Chaim V’Chesed organization, Israel’s Health Ministry Director General Nachman Ash announced this afternoon that Israel’s so-called Red country list will be abolished. This move will take effect tonight at midnight. The new ruling means that fully vaccinated tourists (or recovered by EDUC standards) will be […]

NORTH BRUNSWICK (VINnews) — Students and faculty of Cheder Menachem of North Brunswick, NJ found themselves on the street on Wednesday morning, after being escorted out of the building and locked out. Cheder Menachem uses the facilities of Congregation B’nai Tikvah, a conservative temple located on Finnegans Ln in North Brunswick Township. On Wednesday morning, […]

WILLIAMSBURG (VINnews) — A Jewish man was chased down and hit in the back of the head on Sunday night in Williamsburg. The incident occurred near 51 Bartlett St. in Williamsburg at approximately 10:30 PM. According to police, the 26-year-old victim was chased by two men. When they caught up to him, one of them […]

AUSTRIA (VINnews) — A daughter’s search for her family’s truth in pre-Holocaust Austria led her to discover that her great uncle treated Hitler’s mother and (young) Adolf himself. Meriel Schindler, is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, And The Search for Truth. Café Schindler was built […]