How An Annual Religious Pilgrimage Created A Year-round Jewish Community In Uman, Ukraine
UMAN (JTA) - Before deciding to stay permanently, Chaim Chazin would visit the small city of Uman, Ukraine, every year around Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
For Chazin, a r...
Jessica Krug, the Professor Who Faked an Afro-Latina Identity, Went to Jewish Day School in Kansas City
WASHINGTON (JTA) - The George Washington University African history professor who revealed that she had fabricated an Afro-Latina identity grew up attending Jewish day school and a...
Ukraine Police Free Jewish Businessman Abducted For Ransom Outside Synagogue
UKRAINE (JTA) — Ukrainian police freed a Jewish man held for a week in captivity, the United Jewish Community of Ukraine announced Tuesday on its website.
A gang of criminals al...
Profile Of The Most Sought-After Shofar Blower
JERUSALEM (JNS) - As first-chair trumpet in the Orville Wright Junior High School band in Los Angeles in 1966, Robbie Weinger didn’t know it, but he was training his lips for their...
Media Taken to Task After Rabbi Kanievsky Disparaged For Out of Context Coronavirus Ruling
NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - One day after Israel’s coronavirus czar, news outlets and social media were quick to denigrate Rav Chaim Kanievsky for reportedly offering a blanke...
Opinion: Who Should Jews Fear Most During An ‘Uprising’?
NEW YORK (JNS/Jonathan S. Tobin) - It was a summer of discontent as the coronavirus pandemic raged on. The death of George Floyd, which set off a season of protests about police br...
As Israel’s Infection Rate Spikes, 30 Israeli Cities To Be Placed In Lockdown From Monday
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As Israel's coronavirus infection rate spiraled out of control, with an unprecedented 3,000 new infections announced Thursday, the coronavirus cabinet (an inn...
Opinion: For Kiryas Joel Schools, A Very Special 30th Anniversary
NEW YORK (VINnews/Joel Petlin) - Imagine if you were a parent of a special-needs child. State and federal laws guarantee you the right to a free, appropriate public education, so y...
World Zionist Organization To Send Permanent Emissaries To UAE Jewish Community
UAE (JNS) - The World Zionist Organization (WZO) has selected a young couple as pioneer permanent emissaries to the Jewish community in Dubai.
According to the Israeli Prime Min...
Joe Biden, Do You Really Want To Meet Such A Rabid Antisemite?
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Joe Biden's campaign announced in a press release Wednesday that he will be meeting with Jacob Blake Sr., the father of Jacob Blake, the black man shot seven ...
Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat To Mentor Students At Harvard’s Kennedy School For International Affairs
MASSACHUSETTS (JTA) - Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians’ chief negotiator, is bringing his expertise to Harvard.
Erekat will mentor students and give virtual seminars as a fellow in...
NCSY Removes Name From Jewish Black Lives Matter Statement, Citing Politics
NEW YORK (JTA) — NCSY, an Orthodox youth group, has removed its name from a Jewish letter in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, citing the movement’s politicization.
Th...
US Surgeon General Advises Orthodox Rabbis On High Holiday Practices
WASHINGTON (JTA) – In a call with Orthodox rabbis, the U.S. surgeon general encouraged the spiritual leaders to take precautions when planning High Holiday services this year.
D...
75th Anniversary Of End Of WWII Is Mostly Virtual Amid Virus
HONOLULU (AP) — When Japanese military leaders climbed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945, the battleship was packed with U.S. sailors eager to see the end of Wo...
Target Removes Costume Resembling Clothes Worn By Jewish Diarist Anne Frank
NEW YORK (JNS) - A costume that appears to look like an outfit worn by the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank during World War II and the Holocaust has been removed from Target’s webs...
3 Weeks After Being Stabbed 28 Times By Arab Terrorist, Rafael Levi Celebrates Son’s Birth
ROSH HA'AYIN (VINnews) — Rafael Levi simply wanted to check up on the progress in constructing his new apartment. He did not dream for a moment that he would meet an armed Arab ter...
Rav Chaim Kanievski: Yeshiva Students Should Not Undergo COVID-19 Tests
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Despite a number of yeshivos having suffered outbreaks of coronavirus, Hagaon Rabbi Chaim Kanievski maintains that if bochurim display symptoms of the virus w...
Breslov Chasidim Demonstrate, Lobby, Release Video Showing Uman Precautions
UMAN, UKRAINE (VINnews) — In an attempt to persuade the Ukrainian authorities that all steps are being taken to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus during the coming Rosh Hashana ga...
Israel’s Top Court Rejects Alleged Child Sex Abuser’s Malka Leifer Appeal
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by a former teacher wanted in Australia on charges of child sex abuse, saying her mental condition does not ...
Diplomacy Marches On Its Stomach: One Rabbi Helps Cook Up Kosher Fare For UAE Delegation
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (JNS) - Top Israeli and American officials arrived in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on Monday departing from Tel Aviv aboard an El Al Boe...