New York (VINnews/By Rabbi Yair Hoffman) – Once upon a time there was a news agency that specialized in news that affected the Jewish community and the Jewish world, in general. This was its mandate; by and large, it kept to it.  It was founded in 1917, and called the “Jewish Telegraphic Agency.” Now, however, […]

CHICAGO (JTA/STEPHEN M. FLATOW)- Many of the recent protests over police shootings have focused on a specific victim, Ms. Breonna Taylor. The “Say Her Name” campaign has taught millions of people about Breonna as a person, about her life and what happened to her. The same cannot be said for Grace Cutler or Ann Van […]

JERUSALEM (JTA/MOSHE RAAB) – As my calendar announced the approach of September, I began to relive an event that took place exactly 50 years ago. On Sept. 6, 1970, my mother, my four siblings and I were on a plane that was hijacked by terrorists. TWA flight 741 was one of three planes successfully hijacked by […]

NEW YORK (JNS/MELANIE PHILLIPS) – The former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks, has come in for some stick over remarks he recently made about religion and politics. In an interview with JTA, he was asked what he thought about the observation by Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, the head of the Agudath Israel Council […]

NEW YORK (VINnews/Facebook) — The observant Jewish community is no longer welcome in New York. Our way of life is being trampled on, our needs are dismissed with ease, our vote is irrelevant and cannot change a thing. We are being mocked, humiliated, and relegated to third-class status with shockingly cocky dismissiveness by politicians who […]

First we thought that DeBlasio must apologize for the blatant hypocrisy in forbidding store owners to open and religious people to pray together, while allowing protesters to gather and discard social distancing entirely.  If it is to protect them and others then there is no justification in the world to allow protesters to kill themselves […]

TOM’S RIVER (VINnews) —  The following editorial has been written and prepared by Yosef Shidler of CJ Studios: — I am starting to lose it. On a very serious note. Like hundreds in the Jewish community, my sole income revolves on the Jewish simcha market. Something that is pretty much squashed at this point.  As […]