ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The only man ever convicted in a U.S. court for a role in the Sept. 11 attacks now says he is renouncing terrorism, al-Qaida and the Islamic State. Zacarias Moussaoui is serving a life sentence at a federal prison in Colorado after narrowly escaping the death penalty at his 2006 trial. […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The UN’s Middle East peace envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, issued a stern warning Wednesday against any unilateral action – including an Israeli annexation of parts of the Judea and Samaria – that could undermine diplomatic efforts to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council […]

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Located in what used to be this Dutch city’s Jewish neighborhood, its Jewish Cultural Quarter — a group of museums and other institutions situated within a few blocks of each other — packs centuries of European history into an area half the size of Times Square. It includes the Jewish Historical Museum; […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli archaeologists uncovered a 2000-year-old subterranean compound near the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, near the Western Wall tunnels. The compound, which was sealed off in the Byzantine period about 1,400 years ago, contains two open rooms, a courtyard and several household objects. This unusual finding could shed light on life […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — In a letter written Monday regarding the expected reopening of Shuls in Israel this week, Rav Chaim Kanievski wrote that we need “to establish a permanent rule (Takkanah Kevu’ah) that all telephones should be off during the entire period of the prayers and it is prohibited to enter the shul and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A report by the Washington Post claims that Israel was behind a recent sophisticated cyberattack on an Iranian port facility which caused widespread chaos. The attack was apparently in retaliation for an attempt last month by Iran to target Israel’s water infrastructure. The report, citing foreign and US officials, said Israel was […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 50 chosen Chasidim of the Gerer Rebbe were allowed to pray in a special outdoor minyan attended by the Rebbe for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus. The Chasidim strictly maintained social distancing and all the regulations of the Health Ministry. At the same time the Belzer Rebbe chose […]

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization bowed to calls Monday from most of its member states to launch an independent probe into how it managed the international response to the coronavirus, which has been clouded by finger-pointing between the U.S. and China over a pandemic that has killed over 300,000 people and leveled the […]

PARIS (AP) — Just one week after a third of French schoolchildren went back to school in an easing ofthe coronavirus lockdown, there’s been a worrying flareup of about 70 COVID-19 cases linked to schools. Some schools were opened last week and a further 150,000 junior high students went back to the classroom Monday as […]

KAMLOOPS, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian acrobatic jet crashed into a British Columbia neighborhood Sunday during a flyover intended to boost morale during the pandemic, killing one crew member, seriously injuring another and setting a house on fire. Video appeared to show at least one person ejecting. The crash left debris scattered across the […]