VIDEO: Hasidic Man Stabbed In London Street
LONDON (VINnews) - A Hasidic man from London was stabbed in broad day light this morning on the street of London.
According to several media outlets the incident happened at Sto...
Defying Their Own Dire Projection, The Orthodox Jewish Community Of Antwerp Has Weathered The Coronavirus Surprisingly Well
ANTWERP ( JTA) - Most of the 20,000 or so haredi Orthodox Jews in Antwerp, Belgium, live close to one another in a centrally located neighborhood, an area of about 20 narrow street...
Rapper Ice Cube Tweets Mural Critics Have Called Anti-Semitic
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Rapper Ice Cube tweeted an image of a mural that was removed from a wall in London in 2012 after complaints that the image was anti-Semitic.
In the tweet, th...
Opinion: Can Pro-Israel Democrats Hold Off An AOC Clone?
WASHINGTON (JNS/JONATHAN S. TOBIN) - Up until now, the Democratic Majority for Israel has had a pretty good year. The ability of former Vice President Joe Biden to defeat Vermont S...
Stones Thrown At Police Patrolling In Meah Shearim, Palestinian Flags Waved
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Police patrolling in the Meah Shearim neighborhood were attacked Thursday with stones and bottles. Residents attacked police and some even waved Palestinian f...
European Court Backs Pro-Palestinian BDS Protest Movement
PARIS (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that France violated the freedom of expression of pro-Palestinian activists who were convicted for campaigning agains...
Chareidi Woman Among 25 Top Women Leaders Of Cybersecurity
TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Ola Sergatchov, Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Guardicore Ltd., a Tel-Aviv based cyber company and a Chareidi cybersecurity professional, has been vot...
Zenta Rebbe, Rabbi Chanania Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, Recovers From COVID-19
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Zenta rebbe, Rabbi Chanania Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, the brother of the Satmar rebbes, was released home after two and a half months in critical condition ...
‘Miss Hitler’ Contestant Jailed For 3 Years
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND (VINnews) — A 24-year-old British female who entered the Miss Hitler beauty contest under the name 'Miss Buchenwald' in reference to the Nazi death camp was sen...
A New Talmud Torah Opens In….Dubai
DUBAI, UAE (VINnews) — A new Talmud Torah has opened in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The Talmud Torah, which has 40 pupils, is the latest stage in the development of a flouri...
OP-ED: Governor Cuomo: Please Allow Sleepaway Camps To Open
NEW YORK (VINnews/Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer) — Although my wife and I are proud residents of the great New York City urban wonder, we realize that our children desperately need a chan...
Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein : ‘We Don’t Belong Here, It’s Time To Go To Eretz Yisrael’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein, the founder of Ohr Yitzchak, Ateres Naava Seminary for Girls, and Ohr Naava Women's Institute in Brooklyn, made an impassioned call...
Biggest Chassidish Yeshiva in the World Opens With a Bang – Virtually
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Does anyone know the biggest Chassidish Yeshiva in the world? That's right. It is the Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim. There are more Chassidish bochurim learn...
Israel’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Regulation Law In Judea And Samaria, 3,500 Buildings At Risk Of Demolition
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A nine-member panel of judges in Israel's Supreme Court declared Thursday that the Regulation Law legislated by the Knesset in 2017 is unconstitutional and in...
Argentina Adopts Universal Definition Of Anti-semitism
Buenos Aires (JNS) - Argentina adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, its foreign ministry announced on Sunday.
A resolutio...
Israeli Policeman Stepping On Neck Of Charedi During Arrest To Investigation And Civil Suit
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The disturbing pictures of George Floyd's arrest and subsequent murder reminded a young Chareidi Jerusalem resident of his traumatic arrest at the hands of Is...
Tel Aviv Anti-Annexation Demonstration Features Palestinian Flags, Parallels With George Floyd
TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv Saturday evening to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge to begin annexing parts of the West Bank next...
Leading Chabad Rabbis Oppose Trump Peace Plan: ‘Poison Sometimes Resembles A Candy’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A number of leading Chabad rabbis have expressed public opposition to the peace plan being developed by the Trump administration which includes annexation of ...
For Orthodox Jews, George Floyd Protests Stir Complicated Feelings
NEW YORK (JTA) - On Sunday night, Richard Altabe marched arm in arm with two black politicians protesting police brutality at a demonstration in Far Rockaway.
The next morning,...
Bernie Madoff’s Bid For Compassionate Release Is Denied
NEW YORK (JTA) - A federal appeals court has rejected a plea by Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff for an early release on compassionate grounds.
Madoff “was never truly remorseful,” J...