Florida Man Apprehended For Threatening To Shoot Jews
Orlando - A Florida man who threatened to shoot up a local synagogue and has said publicly that he hates Jews was apprehended on Friday by the FBI.
Hanson Larkin, 25, was in an ...
California Enacts ‘Mezuzah Bill’ Following Widespread Support Among Lawmakers
California - California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that protects the right of Jewish residents to place a mezuzah on their doorposts, including dormitory rooms and ap...
PewDiePie Rescinds $50,000 Donation To ADL After Fans Object
Sweden - The popular video blogger PewDiePie announced a donation of $50,000 to the Anti-Defamation League, then rescinded it a day later after fan feedback.
PewDiePie, whose na...
Suspect Arrested In Brutal Crown Heights Attack
Crown Heights - As previously reported on VIN, Rabbi Avraham Gopin was brutally attacked 2 weeks ago in Crown Heights. He was hit in the head by a stone brick thrown at him while w...
MCI Training Drill In Uman Simulates Hundreds Injured Ahead Of Rosh Hashanah Pilgrimage
Uman - Volunteers from United Hatzalah of Ukraine together with local first responders and Oxford Medical held a mass-casualty incident (MCI) training drill in Uman in a building l...
Boston Health Care Organization Gets $53 Million To Study Dementia
A health care organization with historic ties to Boston’s Jewish community and an Ivy League university have been awarded a $53.4 million grant by the National Institute on Aging, ...
Firefighters Rescue Torah Scrolls From Historic Duluth Synagogue After Fire
Duluth - Firefighters managed to salvage Torah scrolls from a 120-year-old synagogue in Duluth, Minn., before an overnight fire on Monday that started in a storage room wound up de...
Satmar Jews In Brooklyn Upset By Tourist Stares And Photos, Especially On Shabbat
Brooklyn - The Chassidic Satmar community in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., is tired of tourists treating them like “animals” in a zoo by flocking to their commun...
North Dakota Synagogue Invites Homeless Lutheran Church To Share Worship Space
Fargo - A Reform synagogue in Fargo, North Dakota, invited a Lutheran church there to share its worship space.
The invitation from Temple Beth El came after St. Mark’s Lutheran ...
The ‘First Jewish’ President’s Anti-Semitic Surrogate
Washington - Will Bernie Sanders be America’s first Jewish president? That’s up to Democratic primary voters and then the rest of the electorate should he receive his party’s nomin...
Amid Spate Of Attacks On Orthodox Jews In Brooklyn, Community Urges Action By Police And City Officials
Brooklyn - Esther Gopin is fearful to go out in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she’s lived her whole life. Many of her friends who feel the same decided to...
Gov. Wolf To Carry Tree Of Life ‘Mezuzah’ To Holocaust Memorials In Eastern Europe
Pittsburgh - When visiting Holocaust memorials in Lithuania and Poland this week, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf will bring along the mezuzah hat was on the office door of Rabbi Jeffre...
Joe Biden Visited A ‘Shiva’ House In 2006, Writes Rabbi
Washington - A Delaware rabbi wrote a fundraising endorsement for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign citing Biden’s appearance at the shiva for a constituent of modest means.
Rab...
Funeral For Jewish Victim of California Boat Fire To Be Held Monday
California - The body of the Jewish woman who was on the boat that caught fire off the coast of California has been released.
The burial of Yulia Krashennaya will be held today ...
Adas Israel Synagogue Of Minnesota Goes Up In Flames
Minnesota - An early Monday morning fire destroyed a synagogue in northern Minnesota.
The cause of the fire at the Adas Israel congregation, a traditional synagogue in Duluth, w...
Computer Glitch Briefly Shows All Sephardic Applications For Spanish Citizenship As Approved
Spain - A computer glitch in the government portal of Spain caused thousands of applications for citizenship by Sephardic Jews to be reported approved even though they are still pe...
Poles Who Saved Jews During Holocaust Honored In Warsaw
Warsaw - A U.S.-based Jewish foundation held an event in Warsaw on Sunday to honor Polish gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, a number that grows smaller each year, wit...
O’Rourke: Breitbart Jewish journalist Makes Blacks Feel ‘Unsafe’
Joel Pollack, an orthodox Jewish reporter for Breitbart, was ejected last week from an event for black students in South Carolina featuring Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'R...
Demonstrators Hang Plaque Honoring Lithuanian Nazi Collaborator
Vilnius - Demonstrators in Lithuania’s capital city installed without a permit a plaque honoring a Nazi collaborator after the municipality had an earlier plaque dedicated to him r...
Israeli Teen, Father Stabbed During Visit To Qalqilya-Area Dentist
Jerusalem - An Israeli teenager was seriously injured on Saturday morning when he was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant during a visit with his father to a dentist near the Pa...