Rabbi Kanievski And Rabbi Edelstein: Organize Minyanim Outdoors, Wear Masks, No Sukkos Visits
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Rabbi Chaim Kanievski and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein signed a manifest calling on the Chareidi public to maintain health guidelines in the wake of the increase i...
Coronavirus Outbreak In House Of Rabbi Kanievski
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — After Rabbi Chaim Kanievski's driver tested positive on Erev Yom Kippur for coronavirus, it was reported by Haaretz's Aharon Rabinowitz that a number of the r...
Hadassah Hospital’s Plasma Treatment Cures Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Hadassah hospital reported this week that its experimental treatment based on plasma taken from the blood of recovered coronavirus patients has proved success...
Marilee Shapiro Asher, Artist Who Survived Global Pandemics A Century Apart, Dies At 107
WASHINGTON (JTA)- Marilee Shapiro Asher, an acclaimed artist who survived both the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and COVID-19, has died.
Asher died on Sept. 11 at her home in Washin...
Nazi Comparisons Have Long Been Off-Limits For American Jews. A New Political Ad Suggests That’s Changing In The Trump Era.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Is it OK to compare Donald Trump to a Nazi?
In line with their longtime opposition to such rhetoric, anti-Semitism watchdog groups are speaking out against th...
Jewish Americans Changed Their Names, But Not At Ellis Island
NEW YORK (THE CONVERSATION/AP) - A well-worn joke in American Jewish culture goes like this. A Jewish immigrant landed at Ellis Island in New York. The procedures were confusing, a...
Major Satmar Hasidic Leader Critically Ill With COVID-19
NEW YORK (JTA) – As COVID-19 test positivity rates continue to climb in Orthodox communities in New York, a major leader of the Satmar Hasidic sect was put on a ventilator Wednesda...
Shut Down Synagogues And Move All Prayers Outside, Israeli Orthodox Party’s Rabbinical Council Orders
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The rabbinic leadership of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party called for prayer services to be held outdoors only to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
It m...
RJC Defends Trump For Refusal To Condemn White Supremacism In First Debate
NEW YORK (JNS) - Jewish groups reacted immediately against U.S. President Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn white supremacism during the first 2020 presidential debate on Tuesday i...
Chareidi Approach To COVID-19 Changes: ‘After The Gerer Capsules Failed, People Gave Up’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chareidi analyst and PR rep Berele Kromby offered an interesting explanation for the behavior of the Chareidi community in the wake of the second wave of COVI...
Opinion: Avoiding Politics Is A Political Act, No Matter What Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Says
LONDON (JTA/JOSHUA SHANES) - In a recent interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks offered a critique of contemporary political and r...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Balanced Being American And Jewish — Her Delayed Funeral Is No Exception
WASHINGTON (JTA/JONATHAN D. SARNA) - As news of the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spread on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, a common question heard in discu...
Mike Pompeo’s Yom Kippur Visit To Thessaloniki Posed ‘Dilemma’ For Greek Jews
THESSALONIKI (JTA) - Any other day of the year would have been easier for the head rabbi of Thessaloniki, Greece, to welcome Mike Pompeo for a visit.
The U.S. Secretary of Stat...
Baltimore Jewish Day School Principal Donates Bone Marrow To 2-Year-Old Girl After Joining Registry During School Drive
BALTIMORE (JTA) - Rabbi Yossi Kastan, the head of a Jewish day school in suburban Baltimore, says he’s “always wanted to change the world.”
Last week, he did precisely that for ...
Agudah Of Park Heights Closes Building Due To COVID Uptick
BALTIMORE (VINnews) — The Agudah of Park Heights, a prominent Shul in the Baltimore community, has announced that they are closing their building to the recent uptick in COVID case...
Congress Members Join Global Task Force To Combat Online Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Several U.S. Congress members are part of a new task force of international lawmakers trying to combat online anti-Semitism.
Members of the national legislatu...
Lines And Crowds At Chareidi Neighborhood Testing Centers Could Spread More COVID-19
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In many cities in Israel there are drive-thru coronavirus checking centers where people can stay in their cars until they reach the checkpoint where they are ...
Ukraine Marks 79th Anniversary Of The Babi Yar Massacre
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Tuesday marked the 79th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, one of the most infamous mass slaughters of World War II.
Babi Yar, a ravine in the...
1 In 4 Chareidim Test Positive For Virus In Israel’s Chareidi Cities
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel is facing a significant increase in cases of COVID-19 as well as in the number of people who are in serious condition or on respirators. However the Ch...
Video: Montreal Synagogue Dispersed By Police In Middle Of Yom Kippur Prayers
MONTREAL (VINnews) — According to a video released Monday evening, a Montreal synagogue was interrupted and dispersed on Yom Kippur, right around or during the Neilah service.
I...