Dallas, TX – A number of Jewish groups and lawyers are urging the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stay the scheduled execution of a Jewish inmate who said his judge was anti-Semitic. In July, Dallas County Judge Lela Mays approved an Oct. 10 execution date for Randy Halprin, who was part of the “Texas […]

Bratislava – A new Torah scroll is in place in Slovakia, the first to be completed in the Central European country since the Nazis murdered most of its Jewish population during World War II, while one proud Jewish boy will live to tell the tale of having celebrated his bar mitzvah amid the fanfare of […]

New York – Like other local officials, Deborah Lauter can’t say exactly what’s causing the recent spike in hate crimes against Jews in New York City. It could be, in her words, “the rhetoric that’s coming out of various elected officials.” It could be animus among the city’s diverse communities. It could be that the […]

Internet icon Arianna Huffington created Thrive Global in 2016 as a forum to analyze and address our digital enslavement. “We are at an inflection point in history where technology has granted us powers that accelerate the speed of life beyond our capacity to cope,” Huffington wrote in her welcome letter on the Thrive Global homepage. […]

College Park, MD – Federal prosecutors on Thursday recommended a 10-month prison sentence followed by 3 years of supervised release for a man whose relatives reported concerns about his behavior and far-right extremist rhetoric after last year’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. Jeffrey Clark Jr. pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge in July. He’s scheduled to […]

Jerusalem – Last week Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who was visiting Israel at the time, made a pilgrimage to the Kotel and prayed that his state should not get hit by hurricanes this year, according to a Fox News report. With the deadly Hurricane Dorian bearing down on Florida at the beginning of the week […]

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 […]