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WATCH: Thousands Attend Funeral For Terror Victim Eli Kay

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JERUSALEM (VINnews)- Thousands of people participated Monday in the funeral for Eli Kay, 26, who was shot dead the day before in a Jerusalem terror attack. Speaking at the servi...

Watch: Hundreds Of Youths Sing Songs Of Faith And Hope At Old City Murder Site

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a spontaneous gesture of courage and strength in the face of evil terror, hundreds of youths converged Sunday night on the scene of the dastardly murder of...

Honest Yeshiva Students Return Money Scattered In The Wind To Armored Car

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — If you found money lying on the ground, with no known claimers nearby, wouldn't you take it for yourself? This is even acceptable according to halacha- if t...

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: Stance Taken Against Chaim Walder Is Based On Pictures, Recordings

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Following the announcement that several well-known Rabbonim in Eretz Yisroel took a public stance against Chaim Walder at this time, despite the investigation...

Rabbi Injured In Old City Attack: ‘A Bullet Hit My Tefillin, I Had A Miracle’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a discussion with reporters at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, Rabbi Zevi Katzenellenbogen reenacted the scene of Sunday's terror attack. "I left the plaza...

Analysis: Is This A New Wave Of Terror In Jerusalem And What Precipitated It?

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Police officials often say that Jerusalem is a tinder box which requires the slightest spark to ignite a conflagaration. Yet even they are puzzled by the curr...

Jewish Man Murdered, 3 Injured In Muslim Quarter Shooting Attack, 1 Terrorist Neutralized

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — One Jewish man was murdered and another seriously injured in a shooting attack which occurred in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Shortly b...

Palestinian Human-Rights Activist Sues Ben & Jerry’s For Stirring ‘Hatred’ With Boycott

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NEW YORK (JNS) - Palestinian human-rights activist Bassem Eid filed a complaint in New York state recently against Ben & Jerry’s over the ice-cream maker’s decision to boycott ...

Hagaon R’ Shlomo Fisher Zts’l: An Appreciation

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — It was during the nineties, Yom Yerushalayim and the Kolel where we were studying for Semicha wished to mark the event. After all, Jerusalem and especially th...

Republican Attorneys General Discuss Countering Ben & Jerry’s Boycott Against Israel

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Representatives from 11 Republican state attorney general offices in the United States met in Washington, D.C., this week to discuss how to address Ben & Jerry’s refusal to sel...

Moshe Margaretten Teams Up With Kim Kardashian Helping Fly Afghan Women Soccer Players To UK

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LONDON (AP) — Members of Afghanistan’s women’s youth development soccer team arrived in Britain early Thursday after being flown from Pakistan with the help of a New York rabbi, a ...

The Latest Battleground In The War Over Whether Colleges Are Safe For Jews: Hunter College In New York City

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New York (Jewish Week via JTA) — Is the social work school at Hunter College coddling antisemitism, or is it part of an institution that’s deeply committed to protecting Jews from ...

Rav Gershon Edelstein’s New Chanukah Initiative

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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Chanukah is fast approaching.  Generally speaking, Yeshivos give a few days off on Chanukah.  But should they? For a number of years, Rav G...

In A Big Year For His Family, Doug Emhoff Picks Putting Mezuzah On VP House As A Top Memory

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, picked a favorite memory from the last year for a reflective Thanksgiving-themed tweet on Thursday...

WATCH: Ruins Of A Hellenistic Fortress Show ‘Tangible Evidence’ Of Hanukkah Story, Israeli Archaeologists Say

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JERUSALEM (JTA) - Archaeologists excavating a 2,100-year-old fortress say it provides “tangible evidence” of the events from the Hanukkah story. The site, located west of Hebron...

Brazilian Journalist Apologizes For Saying His Country Would Need To Kill Its Jews To Match Germany’s Wealth

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BRAZIL (JTA) - A journalist working for one of Brazil’s largest broadcasters apologized Wednesday for saying on air that the only way his country could match Germany’s wealth is by...

WATCH: Interview With JNS’s Jonathan Tobin On Biden Administration Abandoning Israel At The UN

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Today Alan and Baila from the VINnews podcast 'The Definitive Rap' sat down for an interview with Award-Winning Journalist, Senior Editor-in Chief at the Jewis...

VIDEO: Six Years After Friend Was Murdered At Same Spot In Terror Stabbing, Rosh Yeshiva Eliminates Terrorist

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Six years ago a terror attack took place in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Sukkot holiday. A young couple walking with their children in the Muslim quar...

Israeli Couple Freed From Turkish Jail After Intense Diplomatic Efforts

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A week after their arrest in Istanbul and after intense diplomatic efforts by Israel, Israeli couple Mordy and Natalie Okanin were released from Turkish jail ...

WATCH: Jewish Silver Store In Stamford Hill Brazenly Robbed – Second Time In A Month

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LONDON (VINnews) — A Jewish owned silver store in the Stamford Hill neighborhood of London was robbed early Thursday morning. The incident took place just before 2 AM Thursday m...