Heavy Rain Reveals Remains From Romanian Jewish Cemetery Destroyed By Fascists
ROMANIA (JTA) - Heavy rainfall in northeastern Romania exposed an underground chamber full of headstones from a Jewish cemetery that was destroyed in 1943.
The cave was exposed ...
Jewish Author Sued For Using A World War II Image For His Book On Sweden’s Nazi Collaboration
SWEDEN (JTA) — A new book about Sweden’s collaboration with Nazi Germany has prompted controversy and a lawsuit against the book’s Jewish author from one of the country’s World War...
Georgia Democratic Senate Candidate Defends Anti-Semitic Pastor Jeremiah Wright
GEORGIA (JNS) — The top Democratic candidate in the special Senate election in Georgia defended anti-Semitic pastor Jeremiah Wright back in 2008.
Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of...
Brazilian Man With Infamous Swastika Pool Expelled From His Political Party
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — History professor Wandercy Pugliesi first made headlines in 2014, when it was discovered that he had an enormous swastika tiled into his backyard pool in rur...
70% Of Jews Plan To Vote Biden, Pew Study Finds
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Jewish vote in the upcoming presidential election should be very close to the way it has been split since 2012, a new study by the Pew Research Center found....
San Diego Rabbi Attacked By Youths Over Yom Tov
SAN DIEGO (VINnews) — The Shiviti Jewish community in University City, San Diego has recently been victim to a group of harassing teenagers, who are heckling the community as well ...
Chabad Rabbi Sworn In As National Guard Chaplain In Colorado
COLORADO (JTA) — A Chabad rabbi was sworn in as a chaplain in the Colorado Army National Guard.
Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik, the Chabad director at Colorado State University and a ...
Rav Asher Weiss: ‘We Cannot Say That Our Hands Didn’t Spill This Blood’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic Rabbi Asher Weiss, the head if the Darkei Horaah Beis Din and one of the most prominent poskim in Israel, has ...
More Than 50% Of Israel’s Older COVID-19 Patients (65+) Are Chareidim
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — The Chareidi population in Israel constitutes about 12% of the population. Most of its members are young as it is a growing community which has only recently ...
French-Jewish Singer Enrico Macias Says He’ll Leave France For Israel If Le Pen Becomes President
PARIS (JTA) — Enrico Macias, a well-known French-Jewish singer, said he would immigrate to Israel if the far-right politician Marine Le Pen is elected president in 2022.
Le Pen,...
Clandestine Chareidi Organization Treats Coronavirus Patients From Home- With Great Success
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A hidden cellar in the Meah Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem has become the headquarters for a clandestine battle taking place with COVID-19, according to a ...
Director Of Gateshead Special Needs School Is Honored By Queen Of England
GATESHEAD (VINnews) — A rabbi who established a school for children with special needs and disabilities has been granted an MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birth...
Heshy Tischler Arrested Sunday Night After Yom Tov
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Heshy Tischler was arrested Sunday night, soon after Yom Tov concluded.
Tischler's arrest comes following his announcement on Friday that he was informed by...
Op-Ed: When Hashem Wants Outdoor Minyanim And Short Hakafos, We Must Do His Will
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Most of the Chareidi community in Israel, which numbers close to a million people, celebrated Hoshana Rabba and Simchas Torah in a subdued manner this year, w...
Israeli Army Teams Up With Hospital Amid New COVID-19 Crisis
ERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Sunday opened a new coronavirus unit in a converted parking garage at a hospital in northern Israel, in a first-of-its-kind effort by the ar...
Religious Gathering Limit Upheld As NY Hospitalizations Rise
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of New Yorkers hospitalized with the coronavirus continues to rise, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday, as authorities heightened their focus on banning mas...
Director Of Laniado’s ICU Dances In Front Of Patient Successfully Taken Off Respirator
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In this moving clip (published by Ariel Elcharar), the director of the Laniado Hospital in Netanya's ICU is seen here dancing with a patient who had his respi...
Catholic League President Slams Deblasio For Targeting Orthodox Jews and Catholic Institutions
Catholic League president Bill Donohue has slammed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his unfair targeting of orthodox Jews in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus
Donohue w...
This 102-year-old Jewish Grandma Is Going Viral For Mailing Her Absentee Ballot In A Hazmat Suit
CHICAGO (JTA) - We are now less than a month away from what’s likely the most significant American election of our lifetimes, and many, many people are mobilizing to get out the vo...
Director Of Chareidi Hospital Resigns After Outrage Over His Anti-Charedi Comments
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Professor Motty Ravid, the director of the Ma'ayanei Hayeshua hospital in Bnei Brak, resigned Thursday after a furious public outburst broke out over his shar...