Watch: 200 Arrested As Worshipers Break Into Rashbi’s Tomb, Attack Police
MERON (VINnews) — Some 200 people were arrested after they broke into the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai Tuesday evening and refused to leave despite police calling on them to dis...
Police Arrest Lakewood Rabbi Who Claimed COVID-19 Restrictions Are Unconstitutional
LAKEWOOD (VINnews) — A few days ago Rabbi Yisrael Knopfler of Lakewood, N.J. joined a lawsuit presented by a Catholic priest, Kevin Robinson of the St. Anthony church in North Cald...
Stabbing Attempt Outside Jerusalem, Terrorist Neutralized
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An Arab terrorist arrived in a truck at the Kalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem. The Arab jumped off the truck wielding a screwdriver and tried to stab a s...
Childrens’ Star Has Contractions During Live TV Interview
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Even seasoned interviewers like Paula and Leon Rosenberg, veteran anchors on Israeli television, were slightly nonplussed when interviewee Einat Madani, a chi...
Report: Anti-semitic Incidents In US Hit Record High In 2019
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — American Jews were targets of more anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 than any other year over the past four decades, a surge marked by deadly attacks on a Ca...
IDF Soldier Hit By Stone And Killed During Operation In Samarian Arab Village
HAIFA (VINnews) — IDF soldier staff-sergeant Amit Ben-Yigal (21) was killed Tuesday morning when a stone was thrown on his head in the Samarian village of Yaabed near Mevo Dotan. B...
Opinion: Technology Makes Jewish Education More Accessible. We Must Ensure The Tradeoff Isn’t Our Values
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish colleges and universities and departments of Jewish studies may be guided by the core values of traditional religious texts, but their specific tools for su...
2 Tombstones At A US Military Cemetery Are Inscribed With Swastikas. This Group Wants Them Removed
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A group that advocates for religious freedoms in the military wants the Veterans Administration to remove German POW tombstones at a San Antonio military cemeter...
Jewish Group, Rabbis Decry Biden’s Call To Restore US Funding To Palestinians
WASHINGTON (JNS) — A prominent pro-Israel organization and a rabbinical group have criticized former vice president and presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee and former ...
Watch: Batei Ungarin Celebrates Lag Ba’Omer In Style Despite Health Ministry Directives
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the Batei Ungarin neighborhood near Meah Shearim, residents decided to ignore health ministry directives and organized a huge lighting in honor of Lag Ba'O...
At Ichilov Hospital, Grandson Tearfully Parts From His Grandmother
TEL AVIV (VINnews) — 37-year-old Samir Agayev could hardly hide his feelings as he entered the special isolation unit for coronavirus patients at Tel Aviv's Ichilov hospital. Agaye...
NYPD Detains Rabbi For Letting His Kids Go To The Store Alone, Released Without Charges
BROOKLYN, NY (VINnews) - A prominent Brooklyn Chabad rabbi got himself into trouble Sunday after cops stumbled upon three of his unaccompanied children on their way to a nearby bod...
Jerry Stiller, Longtime Comic Who Won Fame On ‘Seinfeld,’ Dies At 92
NEW YORK (JTA) - Jerry Stiller, the longtime Jewish comic who became best known for playing the belligerent character Frank Costanza on “Seinfeld,” has died.
Stiller died of nat...
2 Arrested For Allegedly Ripping Face Masks Off Jews In Brooklyn
BROOKLYN, NY (VINnews) - Two people were arrested for allegedly ripping face masks off of Jewish people in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.
Paulo Pinh...
Watch: Festive Atmosphere At Meron Even Without People
MERON (VINnews) — Despite the fact that nobody except for a few journalists and the privileged quota of people will be allowed to enter the area of Rashbi's tomb for Lag Ba'Omer's ...
‘Get Out!’: Police Raid Zichron Moshe Shul, But Worshipers Return Later
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Despite the easing of the lockdown in Israel, with malls, parks and beaches opening over the last few days, shuls are still officially closed. Police raided t...
Rav Povarsky, Ponovezh Rosh Yeshiva: When A Child Hears ‘Don’t do This, Don’t Do That, He Rebels’
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — In an edifying interview with Kikar Hashabat, Ponovezh Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Baruch Dov (Berel) Povarsky set out his views on how to educate children to grow in ...
Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Hypothetical’ Question: Can The US Require Groups To Recognize Israel?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Those tuning in this week for just the second day of live Supreme Court broadcasts were treated to a surprise: In a case about NGOs, HIV-AIDS funding and prostit...
Ukrainian Police Official Requests List Of Jews In Western City Of Kolomyya
UKRAINE (JTA) - A Ukrainian Jewish group accused the nation’s police force of “open anti-Semitism” after a high-ranking police official requested a list of all Jews in the western ...
Petition To Israeli Supreme Court: Closing Meron Harms Freedom Of Religion And Is Discriminatory
JEUSALEM (VINnews) — It was reported on Kikar Hashabat that a number of people and organizations had petitioned the Supreme Court against the Lag B'Omer closure on the area of Mero...
