PARIS (JTA) — An Israeli student in Paris was beaten on the Metro train after he spoke on the phone in Hebrew, according to France’s National Bureau of Vigilance Against anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. The student identified as B. Yogev, 30, entered the metro train at the Château d’Eau station in Paris on Monday morning and […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Michelle Farber has spent decades teaching Talmud to Jewish women. But when her first child was born, she was relieved it was a boy. “When my son was born, I said, ‘Good, we had a boy first, it’ll give the world a little time to catch up for women,’” Farber said. “Well, […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The anti-Semite who threatened a Jewish man in a Five Towns Costco store, and told him the Nazis will get him, has now been arrested. The man, identified as Justin Pichazaca, is a resident of Jamaica, Queens. The police have revealed that Pichazaca has a prior juvenile record. His record is […]

BELGIUM (JTA) — Belgium has formally asked UNESCO to delist as a heritage event one of the kingdom’s main parades over allegations of anti-Semitism. The request to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization considerably increases the probability for removal of the Aalst Carnival, whose previous edition featured effigies of grinning Jews holding money […]

SWEDEN (VINnews) — A Swedish Joewish journalist has accused Swedish authorities of anti-Semitism, on account of her nose being ridiculously enlarged on her Photo ID card. Annika Hernroth-Rothstein is a contributor to Israel Hayom, the Jerusalem Post, the Washington Examiner among others, and famously filed for asylum in her native Sweden to highlight rising anti-Semitism […]

LONDON (VINnews) — United Synagogue’s burial chief Melvyn Hartog was brutally assaulted close to his home in Chigwell on Saturday night, according to a report by the Jewish Chronicle. Hartog was struck on the back of his head with an object after receiving a phone call asking him to collect a package that had been […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A probe has been initiated by Israel’s Health Ministry into 4 psychiatrists, after a Channel 12 report accused them of prescribing unnecessary medications to Yeshiva students, including minors. The medication was allegedly given to inhibit their sexual desires. In an expose aired over the weekend, Channel 12 sent two formerly ultra-Orthodox men […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — After a video went viral showing an Orthodox Jewish man being told “the Nazis will ****ing kill you” in a Five Towns Costco, VINnews made contact with the victim to hear his side of the story. The following in part is his retelling of the incident. “Now that I can finally […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chareidi marathon sensation Beatie Deutsch, a mother of five from Jerusalem who has won a string of marathons in Israel, says she will not participate in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, since the event is slated to be held on Shabbat. Deutsch recently won the National Half Marathon championship and also […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — An Orthodox Jewsish man was verbally assaulted in a Five Towns store Sunday, in what is being described as an anti-Semitic outburst. Avrumi Fridman was shopping in Costco on Rockaway Turnpike, when he was accosted by a most unpleasant individual. The individual, sporting died hair and multiple piercings in addition to […]