Watch: Jon Ossoff Is Sworn Into Senate Seat Holding Historic Book Of Hebrew Scripture
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish millennial Jon Ossoff became Sen. Jon Ossoff on Wednesday afternoon at a socially distanced swearing-in ceremony in the Senate chambers hours after Joe Bi...
Watch: President Trump’s Grandson Sings Hashem Melech As Parents Look On
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A clip showing Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's son singing Jewish songs in his classroom as his parents watch him on Zoom has emerged on social media sites. T...
Reports That Tunisia’s President Made Anti-Semitic Rhetoric Are False, His Office Says
TUNISA (JTA) — The office of the president of Tunisia defended President Kais Saied against allegations that he had blamed Jews for recent unrest.
Saied “did not name any religi...
More Than A Dozen Jews, But Not Sheldon Silver, Among Donald Trump’s Last-Minute Pardons
WASHINGTON (JTA) - In the final hours of his presidency, Donald Trump awarded clemency to more than a dozen Jews who had been convicted of crimes — but not Sheldon Silver, the disg...
All The Jews Joe Biden Has Tapped For Top Roles In His Administration
WASHINGOTN (JTA) - President-elect Joe Biden filled the months before Inauguration Day lining up a slate of Cabinet secretaries, assistants and advisors, many of them Jewish.
Bi...
ZAKA Head Yehuda Meshi Zahav Slams Violators Of COVID-19 Regulations: ‘Worse Than Holocaust Deniers’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yehuda Meshi Zahav, the director and founder of ZAKA, lost his mother Sora Zisel to coronavirus this week, less than a month after his brother died from a ser...
OU, Rabbinical Council Join Call For Day Of Prayer Amid Ongoing Pandemic
NEW YORK (JNS) - As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage throughout the world and within Jewish communities—and especially in light of the new virus variants discovered in th...
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein : ‘Old, Young, Pregnant Women Can Take Vaccine, There’s Nothing To Worry About’
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, the Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovezh, has been asked a number of questions recently regarding vaccinations against COVID-19.
The first que...
What Was Rav Shimshon Weiner’s Last Request?
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — For 40 years, Rabbi Shimshon Weiner, a prominent resident of the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in Jerusalem, walked every Shabbos to the Kotel Ha'Maaravi, the Wes...
Trump Pardons Israeli Officer Who Enlisted Spy Pollard
JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted a full pardon to Aviem Sella, the handler of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, as part of the outgoing president'...
Trump Commutes Shalom Weiss, Eli Weinstein, Dozens Of Others
WASHINGTON (AP/VINnews) — President Donald Trump has pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a late flurry of clemency action benefiting nearly 150 people, includi...
Sheloshim For Israeli Terror Victim Esther Horgen To Be Observed Over Zoom
JERUSALEM (JNS) — Family and friends of Esther Horgen, the 52-year-old Israeli mother of six who was murdered by an Arab terrorist last month, are organizing a Zoom event for the g...
Fake Letter Attributed To Kamala Harris Warns DC Synagogues They Must Close Or Be Shut Down
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Synagogues in Washington, D.C., are receiving a fake letter purported to be signed by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris warning them to close or they will go to...
Spanish Court Acquits 8 Israel Boycott Supporters Who Wanted Matisyahu Disinvited From Festival
SPAIN (JTA) — A court in Spain has acquitted eight anti-Israel activists of hate crime charges for their role in demanding that the Jewish-American singer Matisyahu declare his sup...
Israel: Worrying Increase In Pregnant Women In Serious And Critical Condition From COVID-19
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — At least nine pregnant women have been hospitalized over the past week in Israel due to deterioration in their condition after being infected with COVID-19. F...
US, Morocco Sign MOU On Combating Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JNS) The United States and Morocco signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Friday to combat all forms of anti-Semitism.
The MOU was signed by Elan Carr, who le...
Polish Holocaust Scholars Sued For Suggesting Mayor Who Saved A Jew Helped Kill 22 Others
POLAND (JTA) — Two well-known Polish Holocaust historians are on trial for alleged defamation over their claim that late mayor of a town near Warsaw who saved one Jewish woman was ...
For Israeli Right, Trump’s Middle East Legacy Will Outshine His Troubled Last Days
WASHINGTON (JNS) - For most of the Israeli right, U.S. President Donald Trump’s pro-Israel legacy will far outlive the marred reputation of the last days of the presidency.
Pro-...
Study: 1 In 4 Israelis Would Have Survived COVID-19 If Hospitals Were Less Overcrowded
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 47-year-old Moshe Charazi was intubated in the ICU at Tel Aviv's Ichilov hospital after suffering from coronavirus. Inexplicably, the intubation equipment was...
Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss’s Great-Nephew Joins Border Police After Leaving Chareidi Roots
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Shulem Weiss was a budding singer in the Eda Chareidis with a bright future ahead of him. A grandson of Rabbi Shimon Weiss, the director of the highly accredi...