Belarus Provides Large Tents And Facilities For Breslov Chasidim On Ukraine Border
BELARUS (VINnews) — In a humanitarian gesture towards the Breslov chasidim stranded on the Ukrainian border in harsh conditions, the Belarus government erected a number of large te...
Jews Have Lived In Bahrain For 140 Years. The Country’s Peace Deal With Israel Changes Their Lives.
MANAMA (JTA) - Ebrahim Dahood Nonoo, the leader of Bahrain’s tiny Jewish community, was among the Gulf country’s approximately 50 Jews who thought peace with Israel would never arr...
Woodcliffe Lake To Finally Grant Zoning To Local Chabad And Pay $1.5 Million
NEWARK, N.J. (AP/VINnews) — A northern New Jersey town has reached an agreement in a federal lawsuit that accused it of illegally denying an Orthodox Jewish group’s attempt to expa...
Minister Deri Asks Ukrainian President To Allow Chasidim To Enter Country For Rosh Hashana
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli interior minister Arye Deri sent a letter to Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky imploring him to allow Chasidim stranded at the Ukrainian border wi...
Instagram Account ‘Organized In Antisemitism’ Lists Jewish High School Students In Northern California County
CALIFORNIA (JTA) — An Instagram account calls on followers to identify Jewish high school students in Northern California’s Marin County.
The account is associated with the Redw...
‘This Is What We Expected’: COVID Closures And Quarantines Already Widespread At New York-Area Jewish Day Schools
NEW YORK (JTA) - One New York City private Jewish high school shut down Monday after two students in 11th grade and two students in 12th grade tested positive. Several students in ...
Lebanese Journalist Ponders Whether Lebanon Will Be Next To Make Peace With Israel
BEIRUT (VINnews) — Will Lebanon be the next country to sign a peace treaty with Israel? According to Lebanese journalist Nadim Koteich, it is the most logical step and Lebanese int...
Merkel Slams Anti-Semitism ‘Disgrace’ On Jewish Group’s 70th
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel celebrated the renaissance of Jewish life in Germany but denounced the “disgrace” of increasingly open anti-Semitism and racism as she marked...
1500 Chasidim Stranded In Belarus, Hoping To Gain Entry To Uman
GOMEL (VINnews) — Some 1500 Breslov chasidim are stranded in Belarus near the Ukrainian border as they attempt to reach Uman for Rosh Hashana. The Ukrainians imposed a ban on touri...
Kosovo’s Jews Cheer Their Muslim-Majority State’s New Deal With Israel
PRISTINA (JTA) - For Flori Dedoni, a member of the tiny Jewish community of Kosovo, the news that his country is establishing formal diplomatic ties with Israel is cause for celebr...
Florida Latinos Are Being Flooded With Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories Ahead Of The Election
MIAMI (JTA) - Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are spreading among Florida’s Latino communities ahead of the presidential election, amplified by social media and messaging apps as ...
Watch: The ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ Kid That Has The Internet Buzzing
AUSTRALIA (JTA) - Nina Shapiro didn’t intend for the video of her son’s singing to go viral. The Perth, Australia, mother of two describes herself as “paranoid about my kids being ...
Is It Really ‘Peace For Peace’? What Is Netanyahu Hiding?
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — With the much-touted peace agreement between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain to be signed Tuesday on the White House lawn, politicians and journalists in Israel a...
Brazil’s First Jewish Supreme Court President Closes Inauguration Speech With ‘Baruch Hashem’
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Luiz Fux, the first Jewish justice on Brazil’s highest court, used a Hebrew expression meaning “blessed is God” to close his swearing-in ceremony as the cour...
First Fruits Harvested From 2000-Year-Old Date Pits Found In Judean Desert
KETURA, Israel — When researchers excavated the Masasa fortress in the 1960's, they found in an underground cistern among other significant archaeological finds some remarkably pre...
Jewish Settler Gets 3 Life Sentences For Deadly 2015 Arson Attack
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court on Monday handed down three life sentences to a Jewish extremist convicted in a 2015 arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parent...
Jared Kushner Presented Bahrain’s King With Sefer Torah Prior To Peace Agreement
WASHINGTON (VINnews) — Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, who has been directing the peace initiatives in the Middle East with Arab countries, bought a Sefer Torah and pr...
Iran Condemns Bahrain’s Plan To Normalize Ties With Israel
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Saturday strongly condemned Bahrain's plan to normalize relations with Israel, calling it a shameful and ignominious move by the Gulf Arab country.
B...
This Map Shows The 20 Congressional Districts With The Most Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) - About one-third of American Jews live in just 20 of the country’s congressional districts. Nearly half of those districts are in New York, and all but one of them ...
Brooklyn Hospital Wants To Fire Doctor Over Anti-Semitic Posts Like ‘Go Beat Up A Zionist’
BROOKLYN (JTA) - The yearlong battle between a doctor and a New York hospital trying to fire him over anti-Semitic and anti-gay posts will be back in court next week.
New York-P...