After 18 Years: PA To Pay 13 Million NIS To Terror-Stricken Family
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jerusalem District Court ruled this week that the Palestinian Authority must pay 13 million NIS in compensation to the family of Tzippi and Gadi Shemesh w...
Israel Army Chief Rabbi Permits Burial Of Gentile Soldiers Adjacent To Jewish Soldiers
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a change of policy from previous periods, the Israeli army's chief rabbinate has permitted the burial of gentile soldiers adjacent to Jewish soldiers, alth...
Days Before Election, Jewish Cemetery In Michigan Vandalized With ‘TRUMP’ And ‘MAGA’ Graffiti
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (JTA) — A Jewish cemetery in Michigan was graffitied with the words “TRUMP” and “MAGA.”
The graffiti comes days before the presidential election, in which Michi...
Florida School Board Reverses Decision To Reinstate Principal Fired For Holocaust Denial
BOCA RATON (JNS) — The principal of a high school in the heavily Jewish city of Boca Raton, Fla., who was initially reinstated earlier this month after being fired last year after ...
Muslims Held 12,000-Person Event On Temple Mount, But Police Did Not Intervene
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — There is one sector in Israeli society which, far from experiencing a drop in coronavirus cases, is actually suffering from a huge increase in such cases. Cha...
Israeli Left-Wing Press Villifies Trump As ‘Worse Enemy Of Democracy Than Hitler And Stalin’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Although most Israelis embrace President Trump for his staunch support of Israel's policies and for enabling it to achieve peace with three more Arab nations ...
Videos: At Least 2 Dead, 15 Injured In Terror Attack Near Vienna Synagogue
VIENNA (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on people enjoying a last night out at Vienna's cafes and restaurants before a coronavirus lockdown Monday in what authorities said was a terror at...
Republican Jewish Attorneys Step In Against Lawsuit Seeking To Reject 127,000 Drive-Through Votes
TEXAS (JTA) — Two prominent Jewish Republicans in Texas have petitioned a federal court not to consider a lawsuit brought by conservative activists that would throw out more than 1...
Video shows two men stealing pants from victim they call ‘Jew’ in Vienna
VIENNA ( JTA) - Police are reportedly not treating as a hate crime an incident in which two men were caught on video in Vienna stealing another man’s pants and calling him a Jew.
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Patient Sues Dentist Who Refuses To Receive Him Because He’s ‘From Bnei Brak’
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — During the course of the coronavirus epidemic, Bnei Brak has been significantly affected, with a high percentage of its citizens becoming infected with the vi...
Public Prayer At Machpela Cave For President Trump’s Success
HEVRON (VINnews) —The leaders of Judea and Samaria's local authorities have decided to conduct a special public prayer at the Machpela cave in Hevron Monday to pray for the reelect...
High School Journalists Reveal Hitler Quotes In A Kentucky Police Department’s Training Materials
KENTUCKY (JTA) - A report by Louisville, Kentucky, high school students has drawn national attention to local police training materials that quoted Adolf Hitler admiringly.
Hitl...
First Volunteer For Israel’s Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Hailed By Prime Minister Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The first volunteer to receive an experimental Israeli COVID-19 vaccine, 26-year-old undergraduate business administration student Segev Harel, said that he w...
Hebrew University Researchers: Long-Term Effects Of COVID-19 Can Continue Half A Year Later
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an attempt to discover the long-term effects of COVID-19 on patients who were infected with the virus, a Hebrew University research team has published a ne...
Cuomo Announces Agreement To Allow Red Zone Schools To Open
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced a deal that will allow schools in red and orange micro-cluster zones to reopen for in-person learning.
The new testing proto...
Two Neo-Nazis Tried To Harass An Anti-Racism Podcaster. They Failed And Got Arrested.
MICHIGAN (JTA) — The leader of a white supremacist group has been arrested after trying to harass a podcaster — but accidentally targeting someone else instead.
The Michigan Sta...
Online Forums For Anti-Vaxxers Are ‘Hotbeds’ Of Anti-Semitism, British Report Finds
LONDON (JTA) — Online forums frequented by those opposed to vaccinations are hotbeds of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, according to a new report from the British government.
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Jeremy Corbyn Could Be Expelled From Labour Over Anti-Semitism, His Successor Says
UNITED KINGDOM (JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn, who was suspended from Britain’s Labour party this week for downplaying its anti-Semitism problem, could be kicked out of the party altogether...
Dutch Chief Rabbi Says ‘No Need’ For Churches’ Mea Culpa Over Holocaust Inaction
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Six Dutch churches issued what they called an acknowledgement of guilt for not having done more to save Jews or protest their murder during the Holocaust.
But ...
We Don’t Run A ‘Kosher Mafia,’ Leading Argentine Rabbis Say In Response To Businessman’s Claims
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — After Jewish institutions came out in support of a businessman who is vowing to take on what he calls a “kosher mafia” that sets the price of kosher meat, lead...