BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — After the Israeli government decided to impose a total lockdown on Bnei Brak and declared it a “restricted zone” in order both to prevent the spreading of coronavirus outside the city and to remove existing patients and elderly people from the town, thousands of soldiers came to the town to implement […]

LONDON (JTA) – A British lawmaker who identifies as a Zionist will replace Jeremy Corbyn as the head of Britain’s Labour Party. Keir Starmer, who managed the party’s Brexit approach under Corbyn, won 52% percent of the vote in the Labour leadership election, whose results were announced Saturday. His share of the votes was almost […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The coronavirus has spread to over 200 countries worldwide, causing untold suffering and chaos, but there are still some places where it has failed to make any impact. One of these places is Yemen which has yet to report any cases of the virus. This could be due to the bloody […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The  wife םf Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam of Tzanz-Klausenberg and mother of the present Tzanzer Rebbe, Rebbetzin Chaya Nechama Unger, passed away from coronavirus in Union City, New Jersey, on Shabbos. The Rebbetzin, who was 96, had been sick in the past few years but her situation deteriorated after she contracted […]

LONDON (AP) — When Associated Press photographer Frank Augstein moved to London in 2015, what struck him most was the crowds. Augstein, who grew up in a small town in western Germany, thought Britain’s capital of almost 9 million people was the busiest place he had ever seen. In years of covering political dramas, moments […]

CORDOBA, SPAIN (VINnews) — On a hilltop in Southern Spain overlooking a pretty lake lies the ancient fortress town of Zahara de la Sierra. The Moors and Christians fought over it in medieval times, and it was sacked by the French in 1812. Now its formidable position high above the Andalusian countryside has suddenly become […]

GENEVA — The head of the International Monetary Fund says the recession sparked by the coronavirus pandemic is “way worse” than the 2008 global recession. IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva is describing the situation as “a crisis like no other.” “Never in the history of the IMF have we witnessed the world economy coming to […]

MANCHESTER (JTA) – Rabbi Osher Yaakov Westheim was considered “a towering figure” in the United Kingdom city of Manchester and a world-respected authority on kosher food laws. On upholding kashrut regulations he was demanding: Westheim believed that non-Jews should not be involved in the manufacture of kosher products and demanded that Jewish producers be present […]

HUNGARY (JNS) — In light of a growing shortage of kosher meat among European Jewish communities primarily due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Hungarian Jewish community announced on Thursday that it will begin supplying tens of thousands of packages with poultry to many Jewish communities across the continent, including in France, England, Germany and Austria. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman tested positive Thursday morning for coronavirus, politicians and public figures including the prime minister were forced to isolate themselves due to their association with the health minister. However after it was reported on N12 that Litzman had been praying with a minyan both in a synagogue […]