Rockland County – As previously reported by VIN, the GOP of Rockland County removed an inflammatory video, after it received widespread condemnation. The list of people who spoke out against the video includes NY Attorney General Letitia James, Governor Andrew Cuomo, the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Anti-Defamation League. However, Rockland GOP chairman Lawrence Garvey […]

Philadelphia – An 86-year-old rabbi and his rabbi wife were arrested after blocking the entrance to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s building in Philadelphia to protest the the Trump administration’s treatment of migrant children. Arthur Waskow, a longtime political activist, and Rabbi Phyllis Berman were among four senior citizens arrested Wednesday by federal agents […]

Brooklyn, NY – Last night, a few Shmira members discovered that there was a kitten stuck in a Brooklyn sewer. They immediately removed the cover, and proceeded to rescue the kitten. Watch the incident below:

Uman – Last winter a drastic increase in measles cases was documented both in Israel and the United States. According to information that was received by the Health Ministries in both Israel and the United States the disease was spread by those who contracted the disease during their stay in Rosh Hashanah in Uman visiting […]

Lakewood, NJ – Orthodox Jews in America have often suffered from a media image depicting them as passive, unimaginative people who are just following their ancient dictates and living on welfare. Yet a recent Buzzfeed News article demonstrated that, far from being divorced from the business world around them, they are increasingly becoming leaders and […]

Onithsa, Nigeria – More than 250 Nigerian youth and 20 adults gathered Sept. 18-25 in Onithsa for a national week-long Jewish leadership and learning seminar organized by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization, activist and educator Danny Limor, and the Nigerian Jewish Youth Movement. The seminar included classes in Hebrew and Torah, lectures, Shabbat activities, singing […]

San Francisco – Eighty Jewish and pro-Israel groups signed a letter sent on Tuesday to the chancellor and general counsel of California State University that demands answers about a professor’s continued use of the school’s name to spread anti-Semitism and false propaganda against the State of Israel. The AMCHA-coordinated letter drew attention to a post […]

Germany – Germany returned two Nazi-looted late medieval panels to the heirs of a Jewish art collector. The predella panels, found at the base of an altar, were owned by businessman Harry Fuld Sr. Dating from about 1455, the works by the Italian artist Giovanni di Paolo depict two scenes of the life of St. […]

Several Jewish and Israeli humanitarian aid groups are providing aid or relief teams to the Bahamas following the catastrophic devastation unleashed by Hurricane Dorian. The storm struck the Bahamas as a powerful Category 5 storm on Sunday with wind gusts up to 220 mile per hour and a 23-foot storm surge, then stalled for two […]

Jerusalem – On Friday August 23, 2019, Dvir Schnerb (19) was severely wounded next to the Binyamin community of Dolev. His sister Rena was murdered and his father moderately wounded. Yesterday, he was released from the hospital and today, successfully completed his EMT training at Magen David Adom. The emotional ceremony, attended by the Schnerb […]