Friday, March 29, 2024

Jewish

Graffiti Reading ‘Murdering Jews We Will Hang You’ Painted At Spanish Jewish Cemetery

MADRID (JTA) - Graffiti reading “good Jew dead Jew’ and “murdering Jews we will hang you” were written on the gate of a Jewish cemetery near Madrid, Spain. The graffiti, featuri...

Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin Passes Away At 75

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, one of the prominent Poskim in the religious Zionist community and a grandson of Rabbi Yosef Henkin, passed away Thursday at the ag...

Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein: Vaccine Has The Authority Of Beis Din- And Should Be Taken

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BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein, a member of the Council of Torah Sages and a world-recognized authority on matters of medicine and Halacha, published Wednesday a ...

Inventor Of Pfizer Vaccine Says Virus Will Cause More Outbreaks ‘For The Next 10 Years’

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Ugur Sahin, the Turkish-German inventor of the world's first approved vaccine for coronavirus, says that the virus could still be causing outbreaks in 10 years...

Amia Bombing Suspect Acquitted In Historic Trial, Sparking Outrage From Argentine Jewish Groups That Vow To Appeal

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Argentine Jewish groups were expecting a long-awaited victory on Wednesday in the 26-year struggle for justice in the 1994 AMIA Jewish center terror...

Chief Rav Yitzchak Yosef Meets Yemenite Jews Who Escaped To UAE

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ABU DHABI (VINnews) — Israeli Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, who is visiting the UAE this week, visited the Yemenite Jews who escaped from Yemen to the UAE a few months ago. Rabbi ...

Secular Israelis Prefer Living Next To Arabs Than Next To Chareidim

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Only 53% of secular Israelis are amenable to living near Chareidim, according to a survey by the "Living Together" association published by Yisrael Hayom. How...

Trump Names Richard Grenell, Former Ambassador To Germany And Staunch Israel Advocate, To Holocaust Museum Post

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Among the last-minute rush of presidential appointments ahead of Donald Trump’s departure from office is Richard Grenell, a former ambassador to Germany and outs...

Boston Native Makes History As First American Woman To Complete IAF Pilot Course

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JERUSALEM (JNS) - A “lone soldier” from the United States made history on Wednesday, when she became the first American woman to complete the Israeli Air Force’s prestigious pilot ...

Ukraine Airlines To Compensate Israeli Couple Over Anti-Semitic Slurs

UKRAINE (JNS) - An Israeli court has ruled that Ukraine International Airlines will have to pay an Israeli couple 5,000 shekels ($1,550) in compensation for publicly humiliating th...

My Multicultural Shabbat In A Muslim-Arab Country

DUBAI (JNS/MICHAEL SUSSMAN) - As a Jew who often travels for business, I have observed Shabbat in Tripoli (Libya), Casablanca (Morocco), Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), Skopje (Macedoni...

Office X-Mas Parties and Halacha

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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is the question often asked by observant Jews when they enter the secular workforce: “Is it halachically permitted to attend the off...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island Reaches Milestone In The COVID-19 Pandemic With First Staff Vaccinated

In the fight against COVID-19, NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island has reached a significant milestone – its first employee vaccination. Rabbi Jonas Gruenzweig, one of the medic...

How NY Sanitation Workers Helped One Jew Go Dumpster Diving For His Lost Tefillin

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NEW YORK (JTA) — It happens more often than you’d think. Someone mistakenly puts a ring, a wallet or a purse in the trash and assumes it’s gone forever. This week, the New Yo...

Watch: Jerusalem Faction Closes Entry Road To Jerusalem Over Arrest Of Draft Dodger

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jerusalem Faction, a splinter group of Lithuanian charedim who are opposed to any form of contact between yeshiva students and army officials, demonstrate...

Runner-Up To Miss France Told ‘Hitler Forgot To Exterminate You’ After Revealing Jewish Roots

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PARIS (VINnews) — April Benayoun, Miss Provence and runner up in the Miss France competition which took place on Saturday, suffered a flood of anti-Semitic barbs, threats and insul...

Orthodox Jewish Leaders Are Telling Their Followers To Vaccinate For COVID-19

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NEW YORK (JTA) - At the beginning of his weekly video Torah lesson, Rabbi Asher Weiss let his viewers know he was about to broach a contentious topic. “I know that not everybody...

Extremists Burn Down COVID-19 Testing Station In Bnei Brak

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JERUSALEM (JNS)- United Hatzalah officials on Tuesday condemned the arson attack on its COVID-19 testing station in Bnei Brak perpetrated the day before, calling it “unacceptable” ...

Lawmakers Include $2.75 Billion For Private Schools In Stimulus After Prodding By Orthodox Jewish And Catholic Groups

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Following a coordinated lobbying effort by Orthodox Jewish and Roman Catholic groups, the $900 billion coronavirus stimulus includes $2.75 billion for private sc...

Police Car Rams Settlers Car During Chase Over Stonethrowing, Killing Jewish Youth

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Samarian police rammed into a car full of settlers Monday morning during a chase following alleged stonethrowing by the settlers. The car flipped over and one...