Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Jewish

Amar’e Stoudemire Finishes His Conversion To Judaism

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JERUSALEM (JTA) - Amar’e Stoudemire has officially finished his conversion to Judaism. The former NBA star, who received Israeli citizenship in March 2019 while playing professi...

WATCH: Uber Passenger In Australia Leaves Car After Learning His Driver Is Jewish — And Films The Exchange

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AUSTRALIA (JTA) - An Uber passenger in Melbourne, Australia, ordered his driver to pull over and let him out of the vehicle after finding out the driver was Jewish. And he filmed i...

Petition: Allow Shofar Blowing On Temple Mount On First Day Of Rosh Hashana

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — This year Rosh Hashana falls on Shabbos and Sunday. On the first day we don't blow shofar at all, and the second day blowing will only be "drabanan"- rabbinic...

Fire Causes Significant Damage At University Of Delaware’s Chabad Center

Newark, DE (JTA) - fire caused significant damage to the Chabad center at the University of Delaware in Newark. The state fire marshal is investigating the cause of the blaze t...

Attempt To Amend Law Of Return To Exclude Gentile Grandchildren Fails To Impress Coalition

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Betzalel Smotrich is one of the most effervescent members of the Yemina party. When the party was in power and Smotrich served for a short time as Minister of...

‘Angel Mom’ Mary Ann Mendoza Dropped From RNC Lineup After Promoting Anti-semitic Conspiracy Theory

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CHARLOTTE, NC (JTA) - Mary Ann Mendoza, a mother who had been scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night, was dropped from the program after she urged h...

Chareidi Father Of 4 Dies In Petach Tikva Terror Attack

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PETACH TIKVA (VINnews) — A 39-year-old Chareidi man, Rabbi Shai Ochayon, a father of 4, was critically injured in a terror attack Wednesday morning at the Segula junction in Petach...

Jared Kushner Will Be On First Flight From Israel To Abu Dhabi Next Monday

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TEL AVIV (VINnews) — The US announced Tuesday that the first official commercial flight from Israel to Abu Dhabi will take place Monday and will include a delegation of senior Isra...

British-Israeli Woman Sues Easyjet Over Requests To Give Up Her Seat For Haredi Men On 2 Separate Flights

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LONDON (JTA) - A British-Israeli woman is suing the budget airline EasyJet for asking her to change seats on two separate flights because a haredi Orthodox man would not sit next t...

British Rapper Wiley Repeats Tropes About Jewish Power And Money In New Interview

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LONDON (JTA) - The British rapper Wiley in a new interview repeated tropes about Jewish power and money that saw him removed from social media platforms. Wiley doubled down on m...

British Renters’ Union Rejects Membership For Jewish Applicant Saying ‘Sorry, No Time For Zionists’

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LONDON (JTA) - A renters’ union in England apologized after rejecting a membership request from a Jewish person in a message that said “sorry, no time for Zionists.” The renter ...

Ukrainian President Tells Local Rabbis: Keep Uman Worshipers To Under 10,000

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KIEV (VINnews) — In a Zoom meeting marking the eve of the Jewish new year, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky , who himself is Jewish, met with leading local rabbis. Some of th...

This Rabbi Spent 4 Months On A Ventilator And Endured 4 Collapsed Lungs From Covid-19. Now He’s Recovering

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BROOKLYN, NY (JTA) - At a moment when the world could use a dose of hope, along comes Rabbi Yehuda “Yudi” Dukes. In late March, Dukes was hospitalized in New York with COVID-19,...

4 Hamas Terrorists Killed In Accidental Explosion; Israel Tightens Pressure On Hamas

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GAZA (VINNews) — Four Palestinian terrorists were killed Monday night in a string of explosions which occurred in the east of the Gaza strip. Initial reports claimed that the IDF h...

Opinion: Biden Can’t Have It Both Ways On Sarsour And Anti-semitism

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One of the major talking points for Democrats in 2020 has been their attempt to link President Donald Trump to anti-Semitism. That effort intensified during the Democrat’s virtual ...

Nikki Haley Cites Trump’s Israel Policies In Republican Convention Speech

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, highlighted President Donald Trump’s Israel policies to make the case he has advanced a robust for...

Why Some In Israel Are Concerned By A U.S. Sale Of F-35s To The UAE

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JERUSALEM (JNS) - The landmark and historic agreement to normalize relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel drew celebrations in both the Gulf and in Israel in recent ...

Crushed Rocks In New York Utility Road May Have Come From Jewish Gravestones, Report Says

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NASSAU COUNTY, NY (JTA) - Jewish gravestones may have been used to make a bed of crushed rocks laid on the banks of a creek in New York’s suburban Nassau County. A reader of the...

‘Jews Are The Virus’ Posters Show Up In Argentine City

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Anti-Semitic posters blaming Jews for the COVID-19 pandemic appeared over the weekend in the southern Argentine city of Neuquen, nearly 700 miles so...

Sea Lion-Shofar Tiktok Mashup Goes Viral

NEW YORK (JTA) - Now that it’s Elul, the month that precedes Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish world is filling with the sounds of the shofar. But what about Sea World? A viral video co...
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