Myrtle Beach, SC – A 5th grader from Chabad Academy in Myrtle Beach won the regional spelling bee Tuesday night and has earned a spot in the national competition this summer. David Habibi beat out nearly 50 of his peers from Horry and Georgetown schools. Habibi knocked out his competitors during 12 rounds of competition. His winning [...]

Ten months following his sentencing in a Japanese court, one of the three Bochrim imprisoned in a harsh Japanese prison, Yosef Banda is scheduled to arrive in Eretz Yisrael on Wednesday evening, (March 10th), where he will serve the remainder of his sentence, according to numerous reports. The process of persuading Japanese officials to permit his [...]

Coming on the heels of celebrations surrounding the 50th anniversary of Chabad-Lubavitch activities in the Sunshine State, Jewish community members in South Florida are gearing up to toast almost three decades of Torah classes, holiday programs and youth clubs in the southern portion of Broward County.

Haifa City Hall appealed the decision of the city’s magistrate’s court, and emerged from the district court with a victory, overturning the lower court’s decision granting the local Belz community rights to the shul in question. In December 2009, YWN-Israel reported (link below) that the court ruled in favor of the chassidic community, invalidating a municipal [...]

Biden, Abbas criticize Ramat Shlomo building at Ramallah press conference.

Swedish papers publish image of prophet with dog's body after 7 nabbed in murder plot.

HaGaon HaRav Chaim Pinto Shlita has been elected as the sephardi chief rabbi of Ashdod after the city has had only an ashkenazi rav for about nine year. Rav Pinto received 46 of the 48 votes. Mayor Dr. Yechiel Lasri welcomed the vote, praising the fact that after close to a decade, there is finally a [...]

Tokyo, Japan – After reporting in detail on the tragic imprisonment of the 3 Israeli yeshiva bochurim in Japan over the past 2 years, VIN News can report now that One of the teens Yosef Banda is right now in the air flying back to Israel. He left Japan at 10:40 p.m. aboard El Al [...]

Sacramento, CA – Anyone observing the state Senate of late may have noticed Sen. Dave Cox, the Fair Oaks Republican, is wearing a patch over his right eye. Cox says the patch was prescribed to treat an eye condition, temporarily, and he likes to think he looks a bit like a certain Israeli general who once [...]

One IDF soldier is reported in serious condition, one moderate and two light as a result of a motor vehicle accident on Tuesday evening near Maale Gilboa. The military vehicle flipped as a result of the accident. The two more seriously injured soldiers were evacuated from the scene in a helicopter, taken to the trauma [...]