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In Mideast, Biden struggling to shift policy after Trump

In Mideast, Biden struggling to shift policy after Trump

In depth: Biden arrives at at an uncertain moment for Israeli leadership with Yair Lapid as caretaker prime minister; face fresh questions about his commitment… Read More ›

Parents Of Slain Israeli-American Orthodox Jewish Girl Seek Biden Meeting

Parents Of Slain Israeli-American Orthodox Jewish Girl Seek Biden Meeting

  JERUSALEM (AP) — The family of an Israel-American girl killed in a 2001 Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem is seeking a meeting with President… Read More ›

Not even Hebrew hammer Natalie Portman can save Marvel’s ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’

Not even Hebrew hammer Natalie Portman can save Marvel’s ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’

Now in theaters, the latest soon-to-be blockbuster is entertaining – but with repetitive jokes and a juvenile tone, it’s not bad that it’s the franchise’s… Read More ›

Op-Ed: Desecration at the Western Wall

Op-Ed: Desecration at the Western Wall

What kind of Jewish education is producing youngsters who genuinely believe the foul behavior witnessed last Thursday constitutes the glorification of the divine power?  … Read More ›

NYC’s Holocaust Museum Uses Personal Objects To Tell The Story Of Lives Lived And Lost

NYC’s Holocaust Museum Uses Personal Objects To Tell The Story Of Lives Lived And Lost

  NEW YORK (JTA) – A young child’s diary, a favorite doll, a cookbook of family recipes, a report card, a Torah scroll smuggled to… Read More ›

Jewish Victims Among Casualties In Highland Park Mass Shooting

Jewish Victims Among Casualties In Highland Park Mass Shooting

  HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS (AP/VINnews) — In a tragic turn of events, reports indicate that there were Jewish casualties in Monday’s mass shooting in Illinois.… Read More ›

Twitter War Erupts in Charedi Community Over Governor Hochul

Twitter War Erupts in Charedi Community Over Governor Hochul

  NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — A Twitter showdown took place between several vocal members of the Charedi community. The debate focused on… Read More ›

Interview: Documentary tracks many artistic reincarnations of Leonard Cohen and his iconic song

Interview: Documentary tracks many artistic reincarnations of Leonard Cohen and his iconic song

Out on July 1, ‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song’ looks into the star’s life and his creative process – which sometimes clashed with… Read More ›

BDE: Dr. Zev Zelenko Passes Away After Battling Illness

BDE: Dr. Zev Zelenko Passes Away After Battling Illness

NEW YORK  — VINnews regrets to inform you that Dr. Zev Zelenko has tragically passed away. Dr. Zelenko suffered from multiple severe health problems. He… Read More ›

UPDATE: Great Neck Chabad Had Too Few CO Detectors, Multiple Violations

UPDATE: Great Neck Chabad Had Too Few CO Detectors, Multiple Violations

GREAT NECK — On Tuesday, thirteen people, mostly teens, were treated for Carbon Monoxide exposure at the Chabad of Great Neck. One patient was hospitalized.… Read More ›

Kosher Certification Agency Sues JetBlue, Saying They Lied About A Kosher Snack

Kosher Certification Agency Sues JetBlue, Saying They Lied About A Kosher Snack

NEW YORK (JTA) – One of the United States’ largest kosher certifying agencies alleges that JetBlue airlines sold a snack it falsely claimed was certified… Read More ›

Only third of young Jewish Americans care if progeny also Jewish, study finds

Only third of young Jewish Americans care if progeny also Jewish, study finds

According to report, only 48% of young Jewish Democrats support Israel; ‘core beliefs and sentimental ties that made us one dramatically weakened,’ says head of… Read More ›

Lawyers Want 101-Year-Old Alleged Ex-Nazi Guard Acquitted

Lawyers Want 101-Year-Old Alleged Ex-Nazi Guard Acquitted

BERLIN (AP) — Lawyers asked a German court Monday to acquit a 101-year-old man charged with 3,518 counts of being an accessory to murder for… Read More ›

Israel’s elections reawaken U.S. Jews’ trauma

Israel’s elections reawaken U.S. Jews’ trauma

Opinion: While many Israelis dismissed ‘government for change’ as nothing more than a marketing stunt, most U.S. Jews welcomed what they considered a major change… Read More ›

Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition

Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition

While visiting the POLIN museum in 2016, Daniel Patt realized he could be walking by his own relatives without knowing it, so he designed a… Read More ›

Op-Ed: Agudah’s New Appointment Can Only Harm Already Poor Electoral Prospects

Op-Ed: Agudah’s New Appointment Can Only Harm Already Poor Electoral Prospects

  JERUSALEM — If there is one paradox which remains constant in chareidi politics, it is the lack of correlation between the growth of the… Read More ›

Abraham Accords would destabilize region, said US Homeland Security

Abraham Accords would destabilize region, said US Homeland Security

The release of the intel report comes amid US President Joe Biden’s much-awaited and now-postponed trip to Saudi Arabia.   The US Department of Homeland… Read More ›

A series of 19th-century murders connects an Argentine writer to his family’s past

A series of 19th-century murders connects an Argentine writer to his family’s past

When Javier Sinay learned that his great-grandfather was a fellow journalist who covered the killing of shtetl immigrants, he connected with his Jewish roots –… Read More ›

Lakewood’s “Sary Wigs” Closes Instagram Account ‘To Make Space for Something Higher’

Lakewood’s “Sary Wigs” Closes Instagram Account ‘To Make Space for Something Higher’

  LAKEWOOD — Shaindy Braun has decided to close her “Sary Wigs” Instagram page, which has over 40,000 followers. She wrote one final post, including… Read More ›

Woke ADL Leader Blasts Supreme Court Ruling in Favor of Yeshivas

Woke ADL Leader Blasts Supreme Court Ruling in Favor of Yeshivas

  NEW YORK –  Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, has again placed his woke leftist agenda above his Judaism. Greenblatt attacked this week’s… Read More ›