Romania’s Jewish State Theater Explores Work On Holocaust
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The latest premiere at the Jewish State Theater in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, explores the horrors of the Holocaust via a survivor's memories of the...
Teen Arrested In Connection With Sukkot Attack On San Diego Rabbi
SAN DIEGO (VINnews) — A 14-year-old boy was arrested on Friday, 6 days after a San Diego rabbi was assaulted while walking with his father.
According to San Diego police Lt. Sha...
Despite Government Opposition, Rav Kanievski Calls To Open Talmud Torahs On Sunday
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — As the cases of coronavirus gradually decrease in Israel, with less than 2000 cases reported on Shabbos and only 4% of the tests producing positive results, t...
Twitter, Google Decline To Be In State Department Event Countering Anti-Semitism
CALIFORNIA (JNS) — Twitter and Google declined to participate in next week’s U.S. State Department event, featuring U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on countering anti-Semitism...
Opinion: To Avoid The Charge Of Anti-semitism, New York Needs To Make Its Covid Crackdown Standards Clearer
NEW YORK (JTA/MICHAEL A. HELFAND) - For so many American Jews, the recent clashes between Governor Cuomo and the New York ultra-Orthodox Jewish community over new COVID-19 restrict...
Roman Polanski Honors Poles Who Saved Him From The Holocaust
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday to a Polish couple who took him in and prote...
Jewish Security Officials Have A Message For Election Day: Be Prepared For Violence
NEW YORK (JTA) — On Thursday, the FBI had a message for Jewish institutions across the country: Prepare for the possibility of violence on election day.
That was the main takeaw...
Jewish Family’s Painting Looted By Nazis In 1933 Is Returned
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A painting of two young, 19th-century skaters that was looted by Nazis from a Jewish family in 1933 and recently discovered at a small museum in upstate New Yor...
Netanyahu: ‘Peace Is Made With Those Who Wish For It’, Arab Party Opposes Abraham Agreement
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Knesset's plenum ratified the Abraham peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates Thursday by a majority of 80 to 13, with the Joint Arab ...
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Says He Is Being Treated For Cancer
LONDON (JTA) - Former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks announced he has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing treatment.
In a statement posted to his Twitter feed Thurs...
Dov Hikind Sends Letter to POTUS Asking for DOJ to Investigate Cuomo’s Actions Against Jewish Communities
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Dear Mr. President,
As I have written to you in the past, alerting you to troubling developments for the Jewish communities in New York and around the count...
Self Proclaimed Neo-Nazi Pleads Guilty In Plot To Bomb Colorado Synagogue
PUEBLO (VINnews) — A man who expressed white supremacist ideologies online pleaded guilty on Thursday to plotting to poison and bomb a synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado.
After initi...
Father Of Bride At Wedding Disrupted By Police Is From Terror-Stricken Family
GIVAT ZEEV (VINnews) — Rabbi Uri Pollack, the father of the bride at the private wedding disrupted by police Wednesday night, is a well-known Talmid Chacham who studied previously ...
Opinion: What Is a ‘Moser’? the Ugly, Complicated History of Judaism’s Most Dangerous Accusation
BROOKLYN (JTA/Henry Abramson) - The intermediate days of Sukkot in the holy city of Brooklyn are normally a time of singing, prayer and communal fellowship. This year the celebrati...
A Chilean Protest Against A New Constitution Was Filled With Anti-Semitism
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A march on Saturday against the movement for a new constitution in Chile contained Nazi and anti-Semitic symbols, slogans and gestures.
Some protesters at...
Al Gross, Jewish Doctor Who Killed A Bear, Has Raised $9M In Alaska’s Tight Senate Race
ANCHORAGE (JTA) — Al Gross, the Jewish Alaska physician running to defeat incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, raised an eye-popping $9.1 million in the last quarter, funds fuel...
Givat Zeev Wedding Evokes Angry Responses Against Police Brutality, But Wedding Continues
GIVAT ZEEV (VINnews) — The wedding in Givat Zeev north of Jerusalem which was violently broken up earlier Wednesday evening could serve as a watershed event in relations between th...
Anti-Semitic Banner Pinned To Ukrainian President’s Office
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — About 5,000 ultra-right activists marched across the Ukrainian capital Wednesday to denounce a cease-fire in the conflict with Russia-backed separatists in eas...
Video: Hikind Bashes Cuomo, Says Governor’s Jewish-Covid Obsession Leads to Violence
BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - With Governor Andrew Cuomo continuing his daily remarks categorizing the latest uptick in COVID cases as an “ultra-Orthodox” Jewish problem, former...
Trump’s Jewish Point Person Says President Has Fought Anti-Semitism ‘Everywhere And Anywhere’
WASHINGTON (JNS) - Boris Epshteyn, a strategic advisor for U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, has been the campaign’s point person for Jewish outreach for a while now, th...