Jewish Passengers Booted Off Lufthansa Flight In May Are Getting $20,000 Payouts
BERLIN (JTA) - Nearly seven months after they were denied boarding in Frankfurt, a group of more than 100 Hasidic Lufthansa passengers are getting paid for their troubles.
The a...
Loan Company SoFi Pulls Ad After Criticism That It Features An Anti-Semitic Stereotype
NEW YORK (JTA) - Rhonda Moore was alarmed when she saw the ad for a student-loan refinancing company that featured what she believed was a stereotypical dishonest Jewish banker.
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NY City Council Speaker Skips Israel Trip, But Says She Is ‘Proud’ Of Colleagues Taking Part
NEW YORK (JTA) - The speaker of New York’s City Council said she supports her colleagues’ participation in an educational trip to Israel this week, one day after a Jewish news site...
Israeli Charedi Army Unit Linked To American’s Death Exits West Bank
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Wednesday it is temporarily removing a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers out of the West Bank after a 78-year-old Palestinian-American man ...
Netanyahu On Trump’s Dinner With Kanye West And Nick Fuentes: ‘He Shouldn’t Do That’
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Benjamin Netanyahu, the incoming Israeli prime minister who has said that Donald Trump was Israel’s best-ever friend in the White House, said the former president...
Holocaust Survivors Offered DNA Tests To Help Find Family
NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, Jackie Young had been searching.
Orphaned as an infant, he spent the first few years of his life in a Nazi internment camp in what is now the Czech ...
Walmart Pulls $40 ‘Elegant Sunscreen Scarves’ That Were Actually Jewish Prayer Shawls
NEW YORK (JTA) - “Why wear a tallis to shul when you can wear a very real product from Walmart?” Ilan Kogan, an Orthodox rabbinical student, asked on TikTok late Monday.
Kogan w...
Ben-Gvir Criticizes IDF Leadership After Jailing Of Soldier Who Taunted Left-Wing Activists
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Incoming National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir criticized IDF leaders for sentencing a soldier to 10 days in military prison for taunting activists in He...
Beitar Beis Din Rules: No Construction On Roofs During Winter Due To ‘Damage To Neighbors’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Beis Din in Beitar Illit has issued an unusual ruling which would prevent residents from performing any construction work on the roofs of their buildings du...
WATCH: Boyaner Rebbe Celebrates Youngest Son’s Wedding At ‘Design City’ Near Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a huge wedding which took place at the Design City mall complex in Mishor Adomim, the Boyaner Rebbe, together with thousands of chasidim and a gallery of A...
Hasidic Man Harassed On NYC Train, Attacker Brags That NYPD Won’t Do Anything (VIDEO)
BROOKLYN (VINnews) — A Hasidic man was harassed on the J train heading from Brooklyn to Manhattan on Monday.
The incident was tweeted out by another train passenger, who called ...
NEW SHIDDUCH CRISIS STUDY: 96% of Charedi Girls Get Married
NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — For years, Rabbanim, shadchanim, and community leaders have been trying to solve the shidduch crisis.
A breakthrough new study may provide key in...
RABBI SHMUEL ELIYAHU: Soccer is a ‘Drug’ That Destroys Homes (VIDEO)
ISRAEL (VINnews) — Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu spoke critically of those who are too immersed in soccer, including Israelis and other Jews who traveled to Qatar for the World Cup.
The ...
NYC Mayor To Attend Antisemitism Summit In Greece
NEW YORK (JNS) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams is slated to depart for Greece on Wednesday to participate in the 2022 Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism, according to his office.
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ZOA Calls For Counter-Protest To Philadelphia-Sponsored Event Denouncing Israel’s Existence
NEW YORK (JNS) - The Zionist Organization of America has called on Israel supporters to gather in Philadelphia on Tuesday to protest a city-sponsored event critical of the Jewish s...
Kanye West Storms Off Interview After Light Pushback On His Anti-Semitism (VIDEO)
Kanye West, went viral on Monday after storming out of an interview with podcast host Tim Pool, after Pool refused to go along with his anti-Semitic and conspiratorial assertion th...
Female Soldier Seriously Injured In Ramming Attack, Terrorist Neutralized
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A 20-year-old female soldier was severely injured in a ramming attack which occurred near the town of Kochav Yaakov, just a few miles north of Jerusalem.
S...
Pence Calls On Trump To Apologize For Dinner With Antisemite
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday said Donald Trump “demonstrated profoundly poor judgment” and called on him to apologize after the former president had d...
Jared, Ivanka, and Kids Attend World Cup Soccer Tournament (PICTURES)
QATAR (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were spotted mingling with powerful Qataris at the World Cup soccer tournament in Doha on Friday.
The distinguished c...
First-of-its-kind Program Graduates Kosher Ritual Slaughterers In Ethiopia
GONDAR (JNS) - Twelve Ethiopian Jews in the city of Gondar graduated last week from a first-of-its-kind course to train them as shochtim, or ritual slaughterers.
The program was...