BROOKLYN (VosIzNeias) — When Yosef Goldstein suffered a knife accident that immediately made everything go black in one eye, he didn’t know if he would ever see again out of two eyes. But in what is being described as a medical miracle, he now has hope. Yosef, a 29-year-old father of 6, works as a […]

BORO PARK (VosIzNeias) — In what has become an all too familiar scenario in New York, multiple Hasidic Jews were attacked on the streets of Boro Park Friday night. The first attack occured at approximately midnight on New Utrecht Avenue and 53rd Street. Two Hasidic boys were walking down the street, when a vehicle stops […]

NICE (JNS) A man who attempted to break into a Jewish school in southern France while shouting anti-Semitic slurs was arrested by police after guards at the school confronted him and sounded an alarm, according to a report in the Algemeiner. French authorities have not released the suspect’s name. Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi Nice praised […]

JERUSALEM (VosIzNeias) — Two Holocaust survivors now living in Israel and their Greek rescuer were reunited today in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, in a program initiated by the U.S.-based Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR). The emotional reunion took place in the presence of nearly […]

POWAY (JNS) The city council in Poway, Calif., will consider a proposal on Nov. 5 to change the name of a short street in memory of Lori Lynn Gilbert-Kaye, the only fatality in the shooting earlier this year at Chabad of Poway. Under the proposal, Eva Drive would become Lori Lynn Lane. It is located […]

Los Angeles (VosIzNeias) — A message recently circulated from Los Angeles reporting a Jewish girl missing. Shira Green was last seen in Los Angeles in the area of Olympic Blvd and Wooster St. Shira is 28-years-old, is 5 feet 9 inches tall, has brown curly hair and brown eyes. She has a very thin build. […]

WASHINGTON (VosIzNeias) – Donald Trump is arguably the most pro-Israel president in U.S. history. Could it be that Trump has Jewish roots in his family? The president himself is not Jewish, nor does he have any known Jewish ancestors. His father, Fred Trump, was a Lutheran who hailed from Bavaria, although he claimed Swedish ancestry, […]

LIVINGSTON, NJ (JTA) – A new 11,000-square-foot shopping center here is home to 15 storefronts, including a bank, pet shop and clothing store. There’s a health center with a dentist and doctor’s office and a ShopRite supermarket. A traffic guard monitors the crosswalk, which is bisected by a plant and tree-lined strip. After a day […]

PARIS (JNS) — French President Emmanuel Macron and leaders of the country’s Jewish community celebrated the inauguration a $17 million Jewish community center in Paris on Tuesday. The European Center for Judaism was opened “amid painful times of terrorism and anti-Semitism,” said Joel Mergui, president of the Consistoire organization, which is responsible for Orthodox life […]

BERLIN (JNS) — A 70-year-old Jewish man was assaulted on Tuesday in Berlin’s neighborhood of Pankow, the local police department said. The elderly man was walking outside when an unknown assailant insulted him with anti-Semitic language, according to The Jerusalem Post. While he tried to defend himself verbally, the assailant punched him, injuring his head […]