NEW YORK (JNS) — A woman who went on an anti-Semitic tirade against two Jewish people on a New York City subway in December was indicted with a hate crime by a Manhattan grand jury, attorneys of one victim told Fox News on Wednesday. Israeli college student Lihi Aharon and an Orthodox Jewish man she […]

MODIIN, Israel (JTA-URIEL HEILMAN) — When our seventh day of quarantine began with a knock on the door from a guy in a hazmat suit, it was almost a relief finally to have a visitor in the house. He had come to test my wife and me for coronavirus. My four children eyed the man […]

ARIZONA (AP) – The display of a Nazi flag by a man at a Bernie Sanders campaign rally in Arizona drew condemnation from Jewish American groups on Friday amid ongoing worries about Democratic candidates’ security at public events. Images of a flag depicting the Nazi swastika symbol that was briefly displayed at Sanders’ Thursday night […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. government said Thursday that it is deporting a 94-year-old German ex-Nazi who has been in the United States for decades. An immigration judge ordered Friedrich Karl Berger’s deportation on Feb. 28 after a two-day trial in Memphis, authorities said. It’s unclear when he will be removed. Berger, who’s been […]

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (JTA) — As so many of us are now contemplating going into a Shabbos of seclusion, I want to share a few thoughts with you. We all woke up Tuesday morning prepared for our usual schedules of work or school or whatever we usually do. By late afternoon we learned that the […]

NEW YORK (JTA) – The Rabbi of the Young Israel Synagogue in Westchester County, New York, who also teaches two undergraduate classes at Yeshiva University’s Washington Heights campus, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Rabbi Reuven Fink has been in self-quarantine after being in contact with a congregant who had previously tested positive, Yeshiva University […]

NEW JERSEY (VINnews) – A Jersey City man is under arrest, accused of making terroristic threats to the property manager of a kosher deli that was the scene of a deadly shootout back in December. On March 5, 2020, members of the Jersey City Police Department working in collaboration with the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Prosecutors in California plan to seek the death penalty against a former college student accused of carrying out a 2019 attack on a San Diego-area synagogue that left one woman dead and three others wounded. The San Diego County prosecutors said during a court hearing Thursday that they will ask for […]

NEW YORK (VINnews-Zvi Gluck) – We are all familiar with the phrase Mishenichnas Adar, Marbim B’Simcha. The last of the twelve months on the calendar, Adar is known to be an auspicious time and one when we are encouraged to amp up the “happy factor” in our lives. Walk into any school and be prepared […]

CHICAGO (VINnews) — Rabbi Shmuel Fuerst of Chicago recently brought of the topic of voting in the WZO elections during a Shiur. Rabbi Fuerst said that since Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky said to vote, and the Gadol Hador called Rabbi Kamenetsky the “Sar Shel America,” the right thing is to vote. Rabbi Fuerst himself voted for […]