Teacher Who Showed Students Muhammad Cartoons Decapitated In Paris Terror Attack
PARIS (AP) — A history teacher who opened a discussion with students on caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad was decapitated in a French street on Friday and police have shot th...
Putin Proposes Yearlong Extension Of Nuclear Pact With US
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday made a strong call to save the last existing nuclear arms control pact between his country and the United States, proposing...
With Iranian Arms Embargo Set To Expire, Will Tehran Be Able To Purchase Weapons Abroad?
TEHRAN (JNS) — Despite ongoing fears of Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and aggression in the Middle East, the U.N. arms embargo on Tehran is scheduled to expire on Oct. 18, whic...
Netanyahu: ‘Peace Is Made With Those Who Wish For It’, Arab Party Opposes Abraham Agreement
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Knesset's plenum ratified the Abraham peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates Thursday by a majority of 80 to 13, with the Joint Arab ...
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Says He Is Being Treated For Cancer
LONDON (JTA) - Former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks announced he has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing treatment.
In a statement posted to his Twitter feed Thurs...
Israel’s Knesset Officially Approves Abraham Accords
JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israel’s Knesset overwhelmingly approved the Abraham Accords it officially brokered with the United States and signed in Washington on Sept. 15 with the United Ar...
Father Of Bride At Wedding Disrupted By Police Is From Terror-Stricken Family
GIVAT ZEEV (VINnews) — Rabbi Uri Pollack, the father of the bride at the private wedding disrupted by police Wednesday night, is a well-known Talmid Chacham who studied previously ...
A Chilean Protest Against A New Constitution Was Filled With Anti-Semitism
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A march on Saturday against the movement for a new constitution in Chile contained Nazi and anti-Semitic symbols, slogans and gestures.
Some protesters at...
Anti-Semitic Banner Pinned To Ukrainian President’s Office
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — About 5,000 ultra-right activists marched across the Ukrainian capital Wednesday to denounce a cease-fire in the conflict with Russia-backed separatists in eas...
Video: Police Brutally Break Up Givat Ze’ev Private Wedding, 2 Injured
GIVAT ZEEV (VINnews) — After MK Yitzchak Pindrus's attempt to establish a national enquiry into police brutality failed in the Knesset Wednesday and a previous attempt failed earli...
Poland Will End Its Kosher And Halal Meat Export Industry In 2025
POLAND (JTA) – Poland’s senate passed a law that will end its $1.8 billion kosher and halal meat export industry in 2025. Religious communities will still be able to slaughter meat...
180 Years Of Australian Jewish News To Be Accessible Online
AUSTRALIA (JNS) - A brand-new initiative will digitize and open free digital access to 180 years of Australian Jewish newspapers, including more than 200,000 pages from Jewish comm...
Germany Would Share Europe-Only COVID Vaccine With Israel, Citing ‘Special Relationship’
BERLIN (JTA) — Germany has pledged to include Israel in Europe’s deal for a future vaccine against the COVID-19 virus, in keeping with Germany’s “special relationship” with Israel ...
Heavy Rain Reveals Remains From Romanian Jewish Cemetery Destroyed By Fascists
ROMANIA (JTA) - Heavy rainfall in northeastern Romania exposed an underground chamber full of headstones from a Jewish cemetery that was destroyed in 1943.
The cave was exposed ...
Brazilian Man With Infamous Swastika Pool Expelled From His Political Party
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — History professor Wandercy Pugliesi first made headlines in 2014, when it was discovered that he had an enormous swastika tiled into his backyard pool in rur...
Rav Asher Weiss: ‘We Cannot Say That Our Hands Didn’t Spill This Blood’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic Rabbi Asher Weiss, the head if the Darkei Horaah Beis Din and one of the most prominent poskim in Israel, has ...
More Than 50% Of Israel’s Older COVID-19 Patients (65+) Are Chareidim
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — The Chareidi population in Israel constitutes about 12% of the population. Most of its members are young as it is a growing community which has only recently ...
French-Jewish Singer Enrico Macias Says He’ll Leave France For Israel If Le Pen Becomes President
PARIS (JTA) — Enrico Macias, a well-known French-Jewish singer, said he would immigrate to Israel if the far-right politician Marine Le Pen is elected president in 2022.
Le Pen,...
Clandestine Chareidi Organization Treats Coronavirus Patients From Home- With Great Success
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A hidden cellar in the Meah Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem has become the headquarters for a clandestine battle taking place with COVID-19, according to a ...
UK Unveils 3-Level Lockdown Plan; Liverpool At Highest Risk
LONDON (AP) — The British government carved England into three tiers of coronavirus risk on Monday in a bid to slow a resurgent outbreak, putting the northern city of Liverpool int...