A Jewish Democrat Helms Fox News’ ‘Decision Desk.’ He Infuriated Trump By Calling Arizona For Biden Early
NEW YORK (JTA) - Fox News’ “decision desk” team, which makes the network’s election night calls, was the first to call Arizona for Joe Biden Tuesday night.
Fox’s call came so ea...
Rabin Assassin Yigal Amir Requests Furlough For Son’s Bar Mitzva, Court Rejects Request
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yigal Amir, who is serving a life sentence for the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, has requested a formal furlough for his son's Bar Mi...
Trump Claims Victory, But Swing States Still In Doubt, Biden ‘Optimistic’ He Will Win
NEW YORK (VINnews) — President Trump controversially claimed victory in the US elections during the course of the night despite the fact that a number of swing states where he is c...
Malawi Is First African Country To Open Embassy In Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The state of Malawi, situated between Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania in Eastern Africa, has announced that it will open an embassy in Jerusalem, making it th...
Vienna’s Jewish Restaurant Owner: ‘If I’d Been There, It Could Have Ended Very Differently’
VIENNA (VINnews) — Rabbi Shalom Bernholtz, the owner of a restaurant near the synagogue attacked Monday in Vienna, told the Kikar Hashabat site that miraculously, he was not at his...
After Vienna Shooting, European Rabbis Want ‘Much More’ Government Control Of Mosques
VIENNA (JTA) - Following a suspected terrorist attack that left four dead in Vienna by a shooter who reportedly shouted “Allah,” European rabbis made an unusual appeal for more “co...
After 18 Years: PA To Pay 13 Million NIS To Terror-Stricken Family
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jerusalem District Court ruled this week that the Palestinian Authority must pay 13 million NIS in compensation to the family of Tzippi and Gadi Shemesh w...
Israel Army Chief Rabbi Permits Burial Of Gentile Soldiers Adjacent To Jewish Soldiers
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a change of policy from previous periods, the Israeli army's chief rabbinate has permitted the burial of gentile soldiers adjacent to Jewish soldiers, alth...
Days Before Election, Jewish Cemetery In Michigan Vandalized With ‘TRUMP’ And ‘MAGA’ Graffiti
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (JTA) — A Jewish cemetery in Michigan was graffitied with the words “TRUMP” and “MAGA.”
The graffiti comes days before the presidential election, in which Michi...
Florida School Board Reverses Decision To Reinstate Principal Fired For Holocaust Denial
BOCA RATON (JNS) — The principal of a high school in the heavily Jewish city of Boca Raton, Fla., who was initially reinstated earlier this month after being fired last year after ...
Muslims Held 12,000-Person Event On Temple Mount, But Police Did Not Intervene
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — There is one sector in Israeli society which, far from experiencing a drop in coronavirus cases, is actually suffering from a huge increase in such cases. Cha...
Israeli Left-Wing Press Villifies Trump As ‘Worse Enemy Of Democracy Than Hitler And Stalin’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Although most Israelis embrace President Trump for his staunch support of Israel's policies and for enabling it to achieve peace with three more Arab nations ...
Videos: At Least 2 Dead, 15 Injured In Terror Attack Near Vienna Synagogue
VIENNA (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on people enjoying a last night out at Vienna's cafes and restaurants before a coronavirus lockdown Monday in what authorities said was a terror at...
Republican Jewish Attorneys Step In Against Lawsuit Seeking To Reject 127,000 Drive-Through Votes
TEXAS (JTA) — Two prominent Jewish Republicans in Texas have petitioned a federal court not to consider a lawsuit brought by conservative activists that would throw out more than 1...
Video shows two men stealing pants from victim they call ‘Jew’ in Vienna
VIENNA ( JTA) - Police are reportedly not treating as a hate crime an incident in which two men were caught on video in Vienna stealing another man’s pants and calling him a Jew.
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Patient Sues Dentist Who Refuses To Receive Him Because He’s ‘From Bnei Brak’
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — During the course of the coronavirus epidemic, Bnei Brak has been significantly affected, with a high percentage of its citizens becoming infected with the vi...
Public Prayer At Machpela Cave For President Trump’s Success
HEVRON (VINnews) —The leaders of Judea and Samaria's local authorities have decided to conduct a special public prayer at the Machpela cave in Hevron Monday to pray for the reelect...
High School Journalists Reveal Hitler Quotes In A Kentucky Police Department’s Training Materials
KENTUCKY (JTA) - A report by Louisville, Kentucky, high school students has drawn national attention to local police training materials that quoted Adolf Hitler admiringly.
Hitl...
First Volunteer For Israel’s Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Hailed By Prime Minister Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The first volunteer to receive an experimental Israeli COVID-19 vaccine, 26-year-old undergraduate business administration student Segev Harel, said that he w...
Hebrew University Researchers: Long-Term Effects Of COVID-19 Can Continue Half A Year Later
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an attempt to discover the long-term effects of COVID-19 on patients who were infected with the virus, a Hebrew University research team has published a ne...