The U.S. Department of Education is investigating allegations of antisemitism at the University of Vermont, including that some Jewish students were excluded from campus clubs and a teaching assistant threatened to reduce the grades of students who support the state of Israel. The complaint filed by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — I don’t write this to score points or gain any followers, I write out of fear and frustration. Fear of seeing another wave of antisemitic attacks in the already dangerous to walk streets of NYC and frustration of experiencing the hypocrisy, and double standard we as Jews – unlike any other […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An IDF officer was killed in a shootout with Palestinian terrorists near Jenin early Wednesday morning. The officer was identified as Major Bar Pelech (31), deputy commander of the Nahal reconnaissance unit. Pelech ,a resident of Netanya, had been in the US and received an offer to return and lead the unit, […]

NEW YORK (Rabbi Elchanan Poupko / VINNews) — As the New York Board of Regents implements changes in New York’s Yeshivas, we have seen an eruption of askanim, community leaders, rabbis, and others speaking out in support of Yeshivas and against outside intervention in those. As someone whose family comes from Radin, I hear the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a decision considered to be devastating by a large segment of the ultra-Orthodox community, the New York State Board of Regents voted to pass proposed substantial equivalency guidelines. Tuesday’s vote puts an end to a long drawn out political war over whether or not the government can control the quality […]

FLORIDA (VINnews) — Popular conservative talk show host Ben Shapiro, an orthodox Jew, has blasted the NY Times in a series of tweets, over its vicious hit piece against Chassidim. Shapiro wrote: There are 1.1 million students in NYC public schools. The public school system there is a disaster; the NYT has supported policies that […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former prime minister Naftali Bennett and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman spoke out against an agreement between Agudath Yisrael and Degel Hatorah signed on Monday, which included a commitment by Likud leader Netanyahu to equate the budgets of chareidi schools with state school budgets. Liberman wrote that “Bibi is willing to do everything […]

NEW YORK (AP) – New York is poised to strengthen its oversight of private and religious schools following years of complaints that thousands of children are graduating from ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools lacking basic academic skills, including the ability to read English. A Board of Regents committee unanimously approved guidelines Monday to make sure instruction at […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — As expected, the New York State Board of Regents has passed the new proposed regulations for private schools in a Monday vote. The vote was unanimous. The final step before the regulations become law, is a vote by the full board, which will take place Tuesday morning. That vote is expected […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Three children died after being found on a New York City beach early Monday and police believe they were drowned by their mother. The children — a 7-year-old boy, a 4-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy — were found on Brooklyn’s Coney Island beach shortly after 3 a.m. and taken to […]