Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Jewish

Appeals Court Backs Ruling That Orthodox-Dominated School Board In NY Was Not Properly Elected

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ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY (JTA) - A federal appeals court in New York affirmed that a voting method that elected a majority Orthodox Jewish school board in upstate East Ramapo violates t...

Israeli Reporter’s Live Broadcast During Capitol Riot Interrupted By Agitator Hurling Anti-Semitic Slurs

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WASHINGTON (JTA) - A live broadcast from the U.S. Capitol chaos on Wednesday by Israel’s Channel 13 chief Washington correspondent, Gil Tamary, was interrupted by an agitator who u...

Policemen Came To Close Chareidi Wedding And Ended Up Requesting Bracha From The Rebbe

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli police have been extremely diligent in closing and dispersing illegal gatherings including weddings with more than 20 people present. In most cases, t...

Orthodox Jewish Trump Supporters Decry Violence

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WASHINGTON (JTA)- Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the U.S. capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday — but not because he didn’t want to be....

Netanyahu Condemns ‘Disgraceful’ Attack On US Congress

JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday issued a strong condemnation of the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters the day before, ...

The Attack on the Capitol and Halacha

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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com What happened at the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC yesterday was both mind-boggling and horrifying. Protesters swarmed the building as prot...

GOP Congresswoman Says At Rally, ‘Hitler Was Right On One Thing’

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WASHINGTON (JNS) - Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.), who was sworn into office on Jan. 3, told a crowd of protesters outside the Capitol on Tuesday that “Hitler was right on one thing.” ...

Austrian Jewish Community Leader Apologizes For Wrongly Administered COVID Vaccines

AUSTRIA (JTA) - The head of Austria’s Jewish community has apologized for COVID-19 vaccine doses that were administered to community members, including himself, who were not meant ...

‘Blood Is On Your Hands’: Antisemitism Cow Returns One Final Time To Rail At Twitter

CALIFORNIA (JTA) — An anonymous Twitter account that mooed at anti-Semitic tweeters before quitting the platform returned Monday night to take the platform to task one last time. ...

Anti-semitic Flyers Warning Of Jewish ‘War’ On White People Found Around Staten Island

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STATEN ISLAND (JTA) - A white supremacist group from New Jersey posted more than a dozen anti-Semitic flyers on Staten Island. The flyers, found over the weekend in the New Yor...

Inflatable Costume May Have Caused 44 Infections, 1 Death In California Emergency Department

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — A hospital worker put on an inflatable, air-powered costume to cheer people up at a California emergency department on Christmas Day. But now, dozens of hos...

Israel’s Chareidi Sector Sees Huge Outbreak, 16 Times More COVID-19 Cases In 4 Weeks

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The coronavirus spike in the Chareidi population in Israel has broken records over the past month with the numbers rising steadily from 100 new cases a day to...

Flatbush Nanny Arrested For Allegedly Shaking Three-Month-Old Infant Causing Brain Injury

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Officials have confirmed that a live-in nanny in Flatbush has been arrested after shaking her three-month-old charge hard enough to cause cranial bleeding. ...

Iranian Parliament Bill Calls For Destruction Of Israel ‘By 2041’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A bill introduced by the Iranian parliament to coincide with the anniversary of the assassination of Kassem Soleimani obliges the government of the Islamic Re...

Holocaust Survivor Pens Moving NY Times Op-Ed About How COVID Is ‘Stealing’ Her Last Years

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NEW YORK (JTA) - When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Toby Levy thought: “I’m a miracle. I will make it. I have to make it.” That’s because Levy, as she explains in a New York Tim...

Israeli Soccer Player In Scotland And Wife Receive Death Threats, Antisemitic Slurs From Fans

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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND (VINnews) — Israeli soccer star Nir Bitton and his wife Bar received nasty and anti-semitic death threats and abuse after he was sent off during a crucial derby g...

Video: Jewish Child Killed, One Seriously Hurt By Van Who Just Dropped Them Off To School

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BROOKLYN (VINnews) - A five year old Jewish child was killed, and anotherone was seriously injured in an apparent tragic accident by the the van driver who had just dropped them of...

Senior Hamas Official Recalls How Iran’s Qassem Soleimani Gave Him $22 Million In Suitcases

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GAZA (JNS) - Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar said in a recent interview that following his first meeting with Qassem Soleimani, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Fo...

Iranian-British Singer Releases Pop Ballad ‘You Shine’ Praising Qasem Suleimani

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Qasem Suleimani, the senior Iranian military general killed in an American drone attack in Baghdad last January, was actively involved in terrorism on a global...

Israeli Security Forces Arrest Suspects In Binyamin Region Stoning Attack

NEW YORK (JNS) — Israeli troops arrested several suspects in an “extensive” operation in Judea and Samaria on Sunday, in connection with a stoning attack earlier in the day in whic...
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