London’s Chareidi Community Has 64% Infection Rate – 9 Times Higher Than British Average
LONDON (VINnews) — The chareidi community in London has a COVID-19 infection rate of 64%, which is nine times higher than the British average of 7%, according to a BBC report Wedne...
German Prosecutors Charge Secretary To Nazi Camp Commandant
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have charged the elderly secretary of the former SS commandant of Stutthof with 10,000 counts of accessory to murder, arguing that she was part of ...
Ruth Dayan, Israeli Fashion Designer, Wife Of Moshe Dayan, Dies At 103
JERUSALEM (AP) — Ruth Dayan, the Israeli fashion designer and peace activist who was married to one of the country's most revered generals, has died at the age of 103, Israeli medi...
Opinion: Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski ZT’L – A Brilliant Torah Scholar and a Mental Health Giant
NEW YORK (VINnews/Zvi Gluck) - On Sunday, the Jewish community lost one of the biggest forces fighting for those who are suffering the most.
At Amudim, a crisis intervention org...
Nikki Haley Slams Biden For ‘Cozying Up To Iran’ And Ignoring Israel’s Interests
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed President Biden's attempts to renegotiate the Iran deal in a Fox News interview. Haley was asked how the US ...
Bnei Menashe Couples From India Remarry Near Netanya
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Eleven Bnei Menashe couples who immigrated to Israel from northeastern India were remarried in a group ceremony at Shavei Israel’s absorption center near Netanya ...
Future Of Holocaust Research In Poland Hinges On Libel Case
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial for a scholarly examination of Polish behavior during World War II, a case whose outcome is expected to determi...
Israelis Stranded Abroad Losing Patience As Israel’s Aerial Lockdown Prevents Them From Returning
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Israeli government conducted a liberal approach to travellers during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. People were allowed to leave Israel and ret...
Amazon’s Next CEO Andy Jassy Is Jewish
SEATTLE (JTA) - Andy Jassy, a longtime Jewish Amazon executive and confidante of Jeff Bezos, will take the reins of the company as CEO later this year.
Bezos made the announceme...
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s Claim Of ‘Near-Death Experience’ At Capitol Riots Can’t Be True-As She Wasn’t There
NEW YORK (VINnews) — New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made significant hype from the ordeal she suffered during the breaching of the Capitol building on January...
8 Reasons Why Some in the Hareidi Community Ignore Guidelines
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
A number of people aren’t too happy with some members of the Hareidi Jewish community these days. The reason is that they appear to be throwi...
Supreme Court Sides With Germany In Nazi-Era Art Dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's ruling Wednesday in a multimillion-dollar dispute over a collection of religious artworks will make it harder for some lawsuits to be tried in...
Can An Employee Object To Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines On Religious Grounds?
WASHINGTON (AP/The Conversation/Debbie Kaminer, Baruch College, CUNY) — The rollout of vaccines across the U.S. has finally given hope to many employers of a return to some form of...
19-Year-Old Chemi Trachtenberg Has Already Performed 10,000 Vaccinations, Including Prominent Rabbis
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 19-year-old Chemi Trachtenberg is a United Hatzalah volunteer who seems to have a natural inclination to be involved in saving lives. As soon as the COVID-19 ...
Anti-Vaxxer Rabbi Fired By Synagogue Over Social Media Posts
MASSACHUSETTS (JTA) — A longtime Chabad emissary in Massachusetts was fired after months of social media posts in which he railed against pandemic-related lockdowns and mask mandat...
State Department: Abraham Accords Not ‘Substitute’ For Israeli-Palestinian Peace
WASHINGTOn (JNS) - The Biden administration said that while it hopes other countries will normalize relations with Israel, it doesn’t believe that such deals are a substitute for p...
WATCH: Dr. Zelenko Denied Hydroxychloroquine By Walgreens Pharmacist
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, an Orthodox Jewish doctor who rose to fame last March by promoting Hydroxychloroquine, a drug he claimed had successfully treated coronav...
Meet Ashraf Jabari: The Palestinian Populist
GAZA (JNS) - With a mask resting below his mouth, which just took in its third or fourth cigarette of the last hour, Palestinian reformer and businessman Asharf Jabari said he hasn...
Report Projects 1 Million Jewish Israelis In West Bank By 2045
JERUSALEM (JNS) - The latest edition of the “West Bank Jewish Population Stats Report,” commissioned annually by former Member of Knesset and National Union Party head Yaakov “Ketz...
Italy Granted Her A Pension For Holocaust Survivors. Then It Asked For The Money Back.
ROME (JNS) - In 2012, Messauda Fadlun received a letter from the Italian government asking her to return all the money she had been receiving as part of a restitution program for t...