Friday, March 29, 2024

Jewish

US Says It Won’t Allow Daniel Pearl Murder Suspect To Evade Justice

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. warned Wednesday it won’t allow a Pakistani man who was convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl to evade just...

Fiancee Of Settler Youth Killed In Police Ramming Humiliated During Police Interrogation

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A week after the tragic death of Ahuvia Sandak, who was killed when a police car rammed into the car he was travelling in during a high-speed chase, the affai...

NYC Public Relations Impresario Howard Rubenstein Dies At 88

NEW YORK (AP) — Public relations veteran Howard Rubenstein, who for decades polished and protected the images of New York celebrities and power brokers from George Steinbrenner to ...

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai Enters National Politics, Forming New Center-Left Party

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TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Veteran Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, who has long expressed his wish to enter national politics, has decided to launch a new center-left party to run in Israel's...

PHOTOS: Jonathan Pollard Arrives Home In Israel, 35 Years After Arrest

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel, arrived in Israel early Wednesday with his wife, an Israeli newspaper reported, culminat...

This Customized Van Is Helping UK Holocaust Survivors Record Their Stories During The Pandemic

MASSACHUSETTS (JTA) - As one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, Eva Clarke has spent years telling the story of how her mother, weighing just 68 pounds, gave birth to her inside ...

Millions Of Shekels Transferred By German Government Do Not Reach Holocaust Survivors

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Ynet investigation discovered that tens of millions of shekels transferred by the German government and earmarked for Holocaust survivors did not in fact re...

World Economic Forum Touts Israel-Produced Fake Meat As ‘Taste Of The Future’

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Could we be eating fake meat in the near future? This is what the Swiss-based World Economic Forum would have us believe. The organization has been touting fak...

Israeli Agunah Receives Get From Moroccan Jail After Landmark Ruling

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The peace agreement between Israel and Morocco has already led to one positive development. In an extraordinary scenario involving the Israeli rabbinical cour...

2nd Circuit Rules Against Cuomo On Religious Gathering Restrictions

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NEW YORK (VINnews/Agudath Israel) — In a major victory for religious freedom, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today issued a decision in two cases, Agudat...

Prominent Rabbi Said He Didn’t Know His Parcare Vaccination Was Illicit: ‘We Would Not Have Done That’

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NEW YORK (JNS) - Rabbi Herschel Schachter, a leading Modern Orthodox rabbi who received a COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at a clinic now under investigation for improperly administering...

Policewoman Punches Chareidi Protester Repeatedly In Face, Policeman Imitates George Floyd Arrest

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BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — During a protest Sunday by the Jerusalem Faction over the arrest of a draft dodger yeshiva student, a policewoman was seen punching a Chareidi protester repea...

Important Letter From Dr Daniel Berman About COVID and Simchas

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NEW YORK (VINnews/Daniel Berman, M.D.) — With great pain, we recently heard of two more grandparents attending two different weddings of their grandchildren, contracting Covid 19 a...

Israel Leads World In Rate Of Vaccinations: 280,000 Vaccinated In First Week

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel is leading the world in terms of ratio of vaccinations to the entire population, with only tiny Bahrain ahead of Israel in the number of vaccinations a...

Former Lawrence Mayor Appointed by Trump to Holocaust Commission

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(Five Towns Jewish Times) This week, President Donald Trump appointed Marty Oliner, the former three-term mayor of Lawrence, NY, to the United States Holocaust Museum Commission...
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau. Flash90

Israeli Chief Rabbi Refuses To Allow Vaccinations On Shabbos Until They Are Given 24/7

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Chief Rabbi David Lau was asked by health minister Yuli Edelstein, who is an orthodox Jew himself, whether he would permit vaccinations on Shabbos due...

Jewish Philanthropists Increase Charitable Giving Amid Pandemic, Finds Survey

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NEW YORK (JNS) — A survey found that a large percentage of Jewish philanthropists have increased their charitable giving in response to emergency needs brought on by the global cor...

Doctor Who Claimed Racial Discrimination While Being Treated For COVID-19 Dies Of Virus

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — An Indianapolis doctor who complained publicly about her treatment for coronavirus and claimed that due to her color she received inferior treatment  died of t...

Pair Of Nazi Headstones Removed From Houston Cemetery

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Two German WWII graves bearing Nazi swastikas have been removed from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery and replaced with new headstones. The pair of headston...

It’s Time For Homegrown Leadership [VIDEO]

It is time for American Jewry to make an impact.  You may not live in Queens and have very likely only been there while taking off or arriving at JFK or LaGuardia airports. ...