{{Short description|Orthodox Jewish news website}} {{Italic title}} {{Infobox website | name = ''VINnews'' | logo = VINnews logo (2025).jpg | former_name = ''Vos Iz Neias'' | company_type = Private | url = {{URL|https://vinnews.com/}} | advertising = Yes | registration = Optional | website_type = News, News aggregation & blogging | language = English | launch_date = 2006 | current_status = Active }}
'''''VINnews''''', formerly '''''Vos Iz Neias?''''' ("What's the news?" in Yiddish), founded in 2007, is an online news site that caters to the Orthodox and Haredi Jewish communities, primarily in the New York metropolitan area.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-01-19 |title=Staten Island Rabbi Killed in Crash Near Forest Hill |url=https://patch.com/maryland/belair/staten-island-rabbi-killed-crash-near-forest-hill |access-date=2023-01-29 |website=Bel Air, MD Patch |language=en}}</ref> ''VINnews'' competes with ''Yeshiva World News'' as the major news website for the Haredi Jewish world.<ref name="nathan" />
''VINnews'' is owned by four anonymous Orthodox Jewish investors.<ref name="nathan">{{cite news |last=Nathan |first=Ben |title=You Give Them 18 Minutes, They Give You The World |url=https://www.5tjt.com/local-news/3247-you-give-them-18-minutes-they-give-you-the-world |newspaper=Five Towns Jewish Times |date=August 20, 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721200810/https://www.5tjt.com/local-news/3247-you-give-them-18-minutes-they-give-you-the-world |archivedate=July 21, 2011 |access-date=June 15, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> There are advertisers and writers, but since all business is conducted through the Internet and through PayPal, the anonymity of the investors are maintained.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scarr |first=Cindy |date=2022-09-13 |title=He Paved the Final Path |url=https://mishpacha.com/he-paved-the-final-path/ |access-date=2023-01-26 |website=Mishpacha Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>
''VINnews'' endorsed Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, describing Joe Biden as senile and a socialist, while approving of Trump's support of school vouchers and his position on Israel.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2020-11-01 |title=VINnews Endorses President Donald Trump for Reelection |url=https://vinnews.com/2020/11/01/vinnews-endorses-president-donald-trump-for-reelection/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=VIN News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first= Shira|last= Hanau|authorlink= |title= For Orthodox Jews, Election Day caps a season of unprecedented partisan activity |newspaper=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date= November 2, 2020|url=https://www.jta.org/2020/11/02/politics/for-orthodox-jews-election-day-caps-a-season-of-unprecedented-partisan-activity |accessdate=}}</ref>
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{{Organized Jewish Life in the United States}}
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