ILLINOIS (Jewish Journal) — Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on Tuesday condemned a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Benedictine University for asking a Holocaust survivor last week to denounce the Israeli government’s “ethnic cleansing.” “To demand this elderly Holocaust survivor condemn Israel is outrageous & deeply offensive. Yet another example of […]

HIGHLAND PARK (JNS) — After months of discussion, the Highland Park Borough Council brought a resolution on anti-Semitism to a vote at their meeting on Tuesday. The final result, at the end of the nearly four-hour, standing room-only meeting, was a 3-3 tie, with Mayor Gayle Brill Mittler casting the tie-breaking vote to table. The […]

BROOKLYN (VosIzNeias) — 2 Hasidic Jews were attacked in Brooklyn Wednesday as they filmed a violent altercation. The incident occured in Bushwick, on Broadway near Madison Street. The 2 men were driving in their car when they noticed an obviously violent individual involved in an altercation. They pulled out their phone and began filming from […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – In an unmarked villa, nestled amid homes in an upscale Dubai neighborhood, a congregation prays in the first fully functioning synagogue in the Arabian Peninsula in decades. Though its members keep its precise location secret, the synagogue’s existence and the tacit approval it has received from this Islamic sheikhdom […]

New York (VosIzNeias) — A vehicle belonging to a Boro Park Hatzolah member was stolen and crashed Tuesday evening. According to reports, the Hatzolah member had briefly parked his car on 50th Street and 13th Avenue, in order to visit a home. The visit was non emergency related. He returned to the place he parked […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) – A judge has struck down gun restrictions that the Pittsburgh City Council imposed after last year’s synagogue massacre. Allegheny County Judge Joseph James ruled Tuesday that Pittsburgh’s firearms laws are “void and unenforceable” because Pennsylvania state law forbids municipalities from regulating guns. The gun restrictions were approved in April after a mass […]

PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron has given a speech inaugurating the European Judaism Center in Paris. The 5,000-square-meter (53,820-square-foot) space that was opened Tuesday is a place of exchange and boasts a synagogue with 600 seats and an exhibition center. Macron said “this center is an act of faith in the future.” It […]

TORONTO (VosIzNeias) — Yeshiva Darchei Torah of Toronto has notified their parent body of a security incident that took place Tuesday morning. According to the school, 2 unidentified men approached the school building this morning, and attempted to gain entry to the school by pretending to be repairmen. The men failed to produce any ID […]

JERUSALEM (VosIzNeias) — Israel’s Justice Minister, Likud member Amir Ohana, sharply criticized the attorney-general’s office during a press conference which he initiated Tuesday. Ohana, who is responsible through his position for overseeing the prosecution, described it as a “small clique supported by fawning reporters” and added that “there is a prosecution within the prosecution”, meaning […]

JERUSALEM (VosIzNeias) — Conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro, who is visiting Israel at present, recently expressed his opinion that a synagogue should be built on Temple Mount. Shapiro spoke after he was kicked off the Mount last week by members of the Waqf, the Jordanian custodians of the Temple Mount, when a member of his […]