Winona Ryder Describes Anti-Semitic Barbs: Mel Gibson Once Called Me ‘Oven Dodger’
(JTA) — Actress Winona Ryder said she was passed over for a movie role because the studio head thought she looked “too Jewish” and Mel Gibson once asked her if she was an “oven dod...
Fired US Attorney Refused To Sign Letter Critical Of NYC Mayor For Restricting Religious Gatherings
WASHINGTON (AP) — A day before Geoffrey S. Berman was axed from his job as head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, he refused to sign onto a letter crafted by senior offic...
Leading Chareidi Medical Advisor: Close Shuls, Go Back To Open-Space Minyanim
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Rabbi Shimon Ragobay, a senior medical advisor for the Chareidi community in Israel and the director of the Mazor organization, called for a return to open sp...
Tel Aviv To Recognize Same-Sex And Interfaith Couples
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality will recognize same-sex, interfaith and other couples who are not eligible to be married by the state’s religious authorities.
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Netanyahu To Gantz: Sovereignty Or Elections
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent an unequivocal warning to Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz who has persistently refused to adopt the Trump plan inc...
Melbourne Kindergarten Defaced With Neo-Nazi Graffiti
(JTA) — A kindergarten in Melbourne was defaced with spray-paint that read “4th Reich” and was accompanied by a Star of David.
The school hit was the Middle Park Kindergarten in...
Boy In Lakewood Struck By Vehicle; In Serious Condition
LAKEWOOD (VINnews) — A boy in Lakewood, NJ is in serious condition on Sunday after being hit by a vehicle.
At approximately 2:00 PM, a 15-year-old boy was riding a bicycle on Ro...
Israeli Team Publishes Successful COVID-19 Vaccine Trials, Could Start Human Trials Soon
NES TZIONA (VINnews) — The Institute For Biological Research in Nes Tziona published a 26-page manifesto in which it detailed the results of coronavirus vaccine trials on animals. ...
Brazilian Pastor And Congregants Pray For Another Holocaust
Rio de Janeiro (JTA) - A Brazilian pastor prayed to God to “destroy the Jews like vermin” and bring about a second Holocaust during a sermon in Rio de Janeiro.
“Massacre the Jew...
At A German Train Station, A Unique Memorial Is Dedicated To Jews Deported To Their Death
BERLIN (JTA) – Nearly 80 years after the last train sent Jews to almost certain death from the main railway station in Wurzburg, a memorial to those who perished was dedicated in t...
Jewish Owner Of Fashion Brand Aims To Turn Store’s Vandalism Into Artwork
BROOKLYN, NY (JNS) - The Jewish founder and owner of a British fashion brand that sells modest attire is hoping to turn recent anti-Semitic vandalism to her store in Brooklyn, N.Y....
‘Let Him Drive The Kids Home’: Orthodox Lawmakers Advise Civil Disobedience As Suit Filed Against Sleepaway Camp Ban
NEW YORK (JTA) - Fresh off cutting the locks off a closed Brooklyn playground, leaders in New York City’s Orthodox community are turning their attention to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ban ...
May We Visit the Sick in Eretz Yisroel on Shabbos?
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
Is Bikkur Cholim, visiting the sick, in Israeli hospitals forbidden? The hospitals now have huge temperature taking machines and some Poski...
SimchaSpot Followers Take up Social Media Challenge, Thanking Police Officers for their Service
NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) — Amid nationwide protests that have seen police cruisers set on fire, law enforcement officers attacked and calls to defund police departments, memb...
Meretz MK: Ban Government Issued Cars On Shabbos If There’s No Public Transport
JERUSALEM (VINnews) —After MK Tamar Zandberg's (Meretz) law proposal for operating public transporation on Shabbos was voted down by a majority of 56 to 23, she proposed a new law ...
Lives Lost: For Orthodox Jewish Man With Down Syndrome, A College Dream
NEW YORK (AP) — Right up to the end, the status message on Saadya Ehrenpreis’ WhatsApp profile read: “Having the time of my life.”
“And he was,” Ahava Ehrenpreis said of her son...
Brad Lander: Eliot Engel’s Challenger Jamaal Bowman Is The Best Candidate For Jews
NEW YORK (JTA/New York City Council member Brad Lander) — Black people and allies are rising up in the streets to demand systemic changes to decades of racist policing. A global pa...
Watch: Thousands Attend Funeral Of Toldos Aharon Rebbe’s Brother In Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Thousands of people attended the funeral of Rabbi Aharon Kahan, the Divrei Emunah Rebbe from Monsey and brother of the Rebbes of Toldos Aharon and Toldos Avra...
Israel Used Dexamethasone To Treat Serious COVID-19 Cases Prior To British Study
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After a British study published recently proved that an immune suppressor steroid called Dexamethasone could reduce deaths by up to one third in severely ill ...
WATCH: Jewish Man Narrowly Escapes Bullet In Drive-By Shooting
CROWN HEIGHTS (VINnews) — A young Jewish man was nearly a victim of a drive-by shooting on Atlantic Ave on Wednesday evening.
The man was driving on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn at ...