JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli businessman will turn over to Yad Vashem a letter written by an 11-year-old Polish girl killed in the Holocaust after its sale by auction was blocked by a Tel Aviv court. Dudi Zilbershlag agreed to give the letter to the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on the condition that family […]

GOTHENBURG (JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic hate crimes recorded in Sweden rose to a record high last year, jumping 53 percent over the 2016 figures, government statistics show. The 2018 report, which the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention published Thursday, listed 280 anti-Semitic hate crimes that year compared to 182 in 2016. The […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration on Monday offered a reward of up to $20 million for information about Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007, and imposed new sanctions on leading Iranian officials as relations deteriorated further on the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover. The reward for […]

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, […]