ILLINTSI (JTA) — A former synagogue in Ukraine built in the 18th century was destroyed in a fire. The Great Synagogue in Illintsi, in southwest Ukraine, has been used since the Holocaust as a furniture factory and carpentry workshop, the Jewish Heritage Europe website reported. The source of the fire was not reported. The blaze […]

TORONTO (JTA) — A University Toronto student union refused to support a campaign by the school’s Hillel to make kosher food available on campus since it is “pro-Israel.” The Graduate Student Union told a Jewish student representing Hillel in requesting support for its “Kosher Forward” campaign in an email that supporting the kosher food campaign […]

WILLIAMSBURG (VINnews) — As the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg was preparing to leave on a trip to Israel, thousands of his followers were preparing to see him off. Traffic was heavy on Sunday, as many streets off Bedford Ave were blocked off, as well as the parking spots normally used on those blocks. A stage […]

BROOKLAWN, NJ (JTA) – A New Jersey man, 18, was arrested and held without bond for allegedly ordering the vandalism of two synagogues in other states. Richard Tobin is accused of using a neo-Nazi social network called The Base to find volunteers to for the September graffiti attacks on synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin, the […]

WARSAW, POLAND (JTA) – The day after he turned 100, Jozef Walaszczyk prepared to attend yet another Holocaust commemoration ceremony in his native Warsaw. Walaszczyk is Poland’s oldest living Righteous Among the Nations – a title given by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Last April, a complaint was filed by Adela Cojab,a 22-year-old senior at NYU, about anti-Semitism on campus. Her complaint mainly centered around a group called Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), an on-campus pro-Palestinian group. According to the complaint, Adela alleges that SJP has created a “hostile atmosphere” for Jewish students, […]

LYON (VINnews) — Jewish officials in Lyon, France are preparing to file a lawsuit against the city’s airport over anti-Semitic bias. The allegations involve the airport purposely delaying arrivals from Tel Aviv from receiving their lugagge in a timely manner. The situation came to a head last Sunday, when pssengers who arrived on a Transavia […]

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch government has allocated $2.76 million toward the maintenance and restoration of Jewish cemeteries in the Netherlands. Culture Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven announced the funding last week in a letter to the lower house of the parliament. Local Jews have trouble maintaining the graves because the community’s numbers never recovered after […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In light of the rising anti-Semitic attacks across New York City as of late, Senator Simcha Felder penned a letter to incoming NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea. In it he called attention to the safety concerns, and requested he bring back the Hasidic Cop Decoy program, as well as generally increase the […]

Many people read Vos Iz Neias. But how many of them know how to pronounce our name correctly? We decided KosherFest would be a perfect place to find out. Check out this video and then tell us in the comments whether you knew the correct pronunciation all along… BONUS: Send the best video of yourself […]