‘Jews Want A Race War’ Sign Hung On Busy Los Angeles Highway Overpass
LOS ANGELES (JTA) - A sign with the phrase “The Jews Want A Race War” was hung from the heavily trafficked Los Angeles interstate 405 highway overpass on Saturday.
In some photo...
With Appeal Pending, Judicial Ruling Limits NY Weddings to 50 Person Maximum For Now
NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - Granting an emergency request from the Cuomo camp, a Manhattan appeals court judge has restored the 50 person maximum on all weddings held in New Y...
Coronavirus Chief Gamzu And Chareidim Spar Over Flights To Uman
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel's coronavirus "czar" (project manager) Prof. Ronny Gamzu issued an unequivocal statement Saturday night, stating that "There will be no flights to Uman...
U.S. Air Force Chaplain: My Call Sign Is ‘Rabbi’
NEW JERSEY (JNS) - The weeks before, during and after Shavuot this year were unlike any other for two northern New Jersey rabbis. Rabbi Ezra Frazer of Teaneck and Rabbi Yitzchok Le...
Republican Jewish Coalition Mum on Laura Loomer’s Primary Win in Florida
FLORIDA (JNS) - The Republican Jewish Coalition has not responded to conspiracy theorist and alt-right activist Laura Loomer’s primary victory on Tuesday in Florida’s 21st Congress...
Torahs Packed And Synagogues On High Alert As Wildfires Bear Down On Northern California
SAN FRANCISCO (J. the Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — When the evacuation orders came last night, Guerneville resident Sonia Tubridy and her daughter packed the car a...
Over 20 Yeshiva Boys Found Safe After Extensive Search In Catskill Mountains
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A frightening saga had a happy ending for over 20 Yeshiva boys, after they went missing Thursday night in the Catskill mountains.
The boys were part of a gr...
Remembering The Jewish Lives Lost To COVID-19
NEW York ((JNS) - Reality dawned slowly, painfully. In mid-March, it suddenly became clear that the novel coronavirus that first ravaged China, and then parts of Europe, was becomi...
Kamala Harris Will Speak To Jewish Community In Virtual Campaign Event
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Sen. Kamala Harris, newly nominated as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, will hold a “Virtual Conversation with the American Jewish Community.”
Harr...
Sixth & I To Fill Seats With Celebrities (Sort Of) For Virtual High Holidays Services
WASHINGTON (JNS) - Members of the historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, D.C., will be able to sit next to Jewish celebrities, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ba...
In The Netherlands, Judges Can Fine And Lock Up Jewish Men Who Refuse To Give Their Wives A Religious Divorce
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Sara’s marriage was dead, but she couldn’t end it herself.
As an Orthodox woman, Sara — not her real name, for privacy concerns — needed a “get,” or religious ...
Hagaon Rabbi Zalman Nehemia Goldberg, Dayan, Rabbi, Editor of Talmudic Encyclopedia, Passes Away At 89
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Torah world was plunged into mourning with the passing of one of the greatest Dayanim and Torah personalities in this generation, Rabbi Zalman Nehemia Gol...
Opinion: We Want 100% But We Won’t Even Give 50
NEW YORK (VINnews/Ezra Friedlander) - As I write these words the opportunity to be counted in the cen-sus is closing and you, as a member of the community, should be as up-set as I...
Petition To Israel’s Supreme Court: Order State To Bring Rabbi Nachman’s Remains To Israel
JERUSALEM (VINNews) — Supreme Court judge Dafna Barak-Erez ordered Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency to respond to a petition demanding that Is...
Second Fire In 5 Days Burns Chabad Jewish Center In Portland, Ore.
PORTLAND (JTA) - Firefighters put out a large fire Wednesday at the Chabad Jewish Center in Portland, Oregon — the second at the building in five days.
The building suffered ext...
And Your God Will Be My God’: For One Jewish Convert, the Wait Is Over
NEW YORK (JNS) - “I’m so thrilled to be a part of B’nai Israel and to have finally found my place with the Jewish people, after nearly 30 years of asking and searching.”
These a...
WATCH: JetBlue Removes Jewish Family From Flight After 2-Year-Old Didn’t Wear Mask
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Jewish family travelling from Orlando to Newark airport had their trip interrupted on Wednesday when they were kicked off their JetBlue flight. The reason fo...
New COVID-19 Cases In Orthodox Communities Elicit Concern As School Year And High Holidays Near
NEW YORK (JTA) – Over the past week, the reports have come fast and furious.
One overnight sports camp for boys in Pennsylvania had an outbreak of COVID-19, sending eight boys b...
Budget War Continues As Gafni Demands 400 Million NIS For Yeshivas In Order To Postpone Budget
JERUSALEM (VINNews) — The lack of a budget has hurt much of Israeli society, including the yeshivas, kollels and avreichim (married students). Without yet having passed the 2020 b...
Watch: Israeli Media Interviews Senior UAE Official In Abu Dhabi
ABU DHABI (VINnews) — Israeli journalist Roi Keis, who serves as the Arab affairs corresponded for the state-funded Kan news outlet, interviewed Jamal Al Musharakh. the Director of...