Month January 2023
JERUSAELM (JTA) – Devora Zien’s tiny apartment in Bnei Brak runs like a factory, but, she admits, not a very smooth one. With 12 mouths to feed three times a day, single-use plasticware is a basic necessity, she says. So… Continue Reading →
Ask the new artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to write an essay about the cause of the American Civil War and you can watch it churn out a persuasive term paper in a matter of seconds. That’s one reason why New… Continue Reading →
MONSEY (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Yossi Gestetner has engaged in a days-long Twitter rant, defending the “Brigade” of conservative holdouts who refused to support Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker. The Chassidic political commentator also blasted Ben Shapiro, Bill O’Reilly… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israel on Sunday revoked the VIP pass of Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, in line with a Cabinet decision last week to sanction Ramallah in response to the U.N.’s passage, at the P.A.’s behest, of a… Continue Reading →
BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – Police are hot on the trail of a hit and run driver who fled the scene after striking a Chasidic man in Crown Heights this past Friday night, in what appears to be a deliberate move…. Continue Reading →
A new Alzheimer’s drug is hitting the market — the first with clear-cut evidence that it can slow, by several months, the mind-robbing disease. It’s a long-needed new treatment, but experts also are voicing a lot of caution: The drug… Continue Reading →
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As Republican infighting debilitates Washington, lawmakers at some U.S. statehouses have managed to launch sessions complicated by similar GOP partisan divides or razor-thin margins of party control with a host of creative — if yet untested… Continue Reading →
A driver under the influence of drugs slammed his vehicle into the Chabad of Palm Springs shul, with the vehicle crashing into the bais medrash at the exact spot where the Satmar Rebbe, Rav Aharon Teitelbaum shlit”a, stands by davening… Continue Reading →
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gathered government ministers, medics and health service managers in 10 Downing St. on Saturday for talks aimed at fixing a health care crisis that has seen thousands of patients stranded outside overflowing hospitals. The government… Continue Reading →
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NEW JERSEY (VINnews) — Orthodox Jewish educators blasted a new mask mandate imposed last week on school children in Paterson, New Jersey, calling it “insanity” and “disgusting”. They noted the irony of Paterson’s mayor publicly affirming the necessity to force… Continue Reading →
A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky. NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.” Most of the 5,400-pound (2,450-kilogram) satellite will burn up upon reentry, according to NASA. But… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a huge Sholom Zochor which took place at the Beis Yisrael reception hall in Jerusalem, hundreds of well-wishers celebrated with Rabbi Efrayim Fishel Yisrael Weinberger (52) from the Bobov-45 chasidim. Rabbi Efrayim and his wife had… Continue Reading →
A Jewish man was rammed and injured by a vehicle in Crown Heights on Friday evening in an incident that the NYPD is now investigating as a bias attack. The disturbing incident unfolded at around 6 pm at the intersection… Continue Reading →
The case of the “Lebanese chassan” that shocked the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn came to an end last week when Eliya Haliwa granted his wife a get. Haliwa’s wife left him shortly after their marriage in October 2021 when… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a move which could lead to the first crisis for the new Israeli coalition, the UTJ party has demanded that the Israeli railway service cease maintenance work on the intercity rail system on Shabbat, since the… Continue Reading →
Dear Fellow Jews, In just a couple of days is the wedding of the daughter of Beloved Rebbi and Mentor Harav Efraim Krohn Shlit”a, well known in the Mattersdorf Neighborhood. He already struggles greatly with his family’s basic needs and the… Continue Reading →
A former U.S. defense intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for Cuba more than 20 years ago has been released from a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas. Ana Belen Montes, 65, was released Friday, Federal Bureau of Prisons… Continue Reading →
China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government’s policies on the COVID-19 outbreak, as the country moves to roll back harsh anti-virus restrictions. The popular Sina Weibo social media platform said… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Aron Rosner, who was found guilty of collusion with the kidnappers in the Lev Tahor 2018 abduction of two children from their home in New York, has been sentenced to time served plus one year of… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Eliyah Hawila, the Lebanese man who married a Syrian-Jewish woman in Brooklyn in 2021 and was then discovered to have been raised Muslim, has given a get to his wife, in accordance with a ruling by the… Continue Reading →