Historic Meeting Between Vizhnitzer Rebbe And Netanyahu At PM’s Residence
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Journalist Yisrael Cohen revealed that the Vizhnitzer Rebbe had a private meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu late last night. This is the first time that a...
Netanyahu Tweets Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Letter From 32 Years Ago: ‘His Words Still Touch Me Today’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Netanyahu chose today to tweet two letters which were written 32 years ago. In one letter he thanked the Lubavitcher Rebbe for his "moral encou...
Owner of Miami Grand Beach Hotel, 100-year-old Jewish War Hero Is First Centenarian To Make UK Billionaire List
MIAMI (JTA/VINnews) - A British-Jewish businessman and war hero is the first centenarian to appear in the Sunday Times Rich List of the richest individuals in the United Kingdom.
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British Daily Criticizes Hasidic Lag Ba’Omer ‘Revellers’ In Stamford Hill For Ignoring Regulations
LONDON (VINnews) — Britain's Daily Mail, one of the largest national newspapers in the kingdom, criticized Hasidic Jews for ignoring social distancing rules during the coronavirus ...
Security Guard Lightly Injured In Sheba Medical Center Stabbing, Suspect Neutralized
RAMAT GAN (VINnews) — A suspect carrying a knife attempted to stab a security guard at the entrance to the Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer. The guard, the hospital's deputy se...
Emerging From Lockdown, French Jews Take Stock Of Community’s ‘Enormous Losses’
PARIS (JTA) - Regulars at the synagogue in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine call its main hallway “the traffic jam.”
The term, often uttered with an eye roll, refers to the...
Florida Synagogue Sanctions Members For Participating In COVID-19 Minyan
DEERFIELD BEACH (VINnews) — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drag on, some communities are demonstrating that they will not stand for any violations of social distancing guide...
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...