MADRID (JTA) — A luxury fashion house based in Spain removed an outfit that closely resembled concentration camp uniforms from the Holocaust. The striped pantsuit was removed from the Loewe website on Friday and the company issued an apology. The outfit, which was being sold for $1,840, was part of a capsule collection inspired by […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The mother of an Israeli-American woman being held in a Russian prison has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to pardon her daughter. Yaffa Issachar, the mother of Naama, sent the letter through the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, the Hebrew daily Maariv reported. The Patriarch met last week with Putin […]

LONDON (VINnews) — British Police arrested a man who had harassed and verbally abused a Jewish family on an underground train in the heart of London, but at the same time a Muslim woman intervened to help the family. A video filmed in London on Friday and released online shows a man reading anti-Jewish passages […]

NETANYA, Israel (VINnews) – Two children aged three and five were killed as a result of a fire that broke out on Friday in an apartment on Sharabi Street in Netanya. The children have been identified as Refael (age 3) and Elazar (age 5) Ochana. The fire broke out Friday afternoon just before Shabbos on […]

NEW YORK (JNS) — Standing alongside Brooklyn Borough president Eric L. Adams, local faith leaders, elected officials and community partners, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt announced last week that the New York-based group will be doubling the number of Brooklyn schools involved in its “No Place for Hate Peer to Peer Program” for the 2019-20 school […]

FLINT, Mich. (VINnews) — The teens at Hurley Medical Center were in for a nice surprise, when Rabbi J.J. Hecht of Toys for Hospitalized Children paid them a visit. He didn’t come emptyhanded, the patients were presented with tablets and amazon Echos and more. The full list of donations included, Amazon Fire Tablets, Amazon Echo […]

BERLIN (JTA) — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany will make her first visit to the site of the Auschwitz Nazi camp in her 14-year tenure. The visit to the former death camp in Poland is scheduled for Dec. 6, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Thursday. She will participate there in events to mark the […]

NONSEY (VINnews) — The victim of the brutal stabbing attack in Monsey on Wednesday has undergone a second surgery since the attack. The surgery was on his skull, which was fractured in the assault. If all goes well, he will undergo a third surgery, this time to save his eye that was seriously injured in […]

MONSEY (VINnews) — 3 individuals from Monsey, NY were arrested by the FBI Thursday in a case involving a highly controversial tactic by the government. Essentially, the government takes a person who has violated the law and faces harsh legal repercussions and gets that person – called a Confidential Witness (CW) to help catch other […]