Meet the Jewish Day School Teacher Who Wagered $18 on ‘Jeopardy!’ and Won $50,000
NEW YORK (JTA) – Astute viewers could find plenty of signs during the recent “Jeopardy!” Teachers Tournament that one leading contestant had some Jewish… Read More ›
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Rumor That A Los Angeles Chabad Is Fueling Antifa Gets Brief White House Amplification
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A Los Angeles synagogue found itself having to deny misinformation about the George Floyd protests after a rumor spread — and… Read More ›
US antisemitism envoy condemns ransacking of synagogues in LA protests
Protesters also vandalized and damaged Congregation Beth Ahabah, a more than 200-year-old Reform congregation in Richmond, Virginia. The United States’ Special Envoy for Monitoring… Read More ›
Anti-Semitism examined as a social virus in new PBS documentary
‘Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations’ examines how hatred of Jews is treated, and spreads, like virulent disease, and looks at how humanity can hope to… Read More ›
Inside a Maryland woman’s struggle to keep her mother alive in a nursing home
Long-term care facilities have been hardest hit by COVID-19, leaving the children of patients scrambling to help them when they can’t be physically present … Read More ›
Camp Infirmary Nurse Voices Concerns Over Camps Opening This Summer
NEW YORK — The following letter was submitted to VINnews by a an experienced nurse who works in a camp infirmary: I dont usually… Read More ›
Religious Zionists must wise up about Netanyahu
Opinion: The prime minister’s insistence on keeping Naftali Bennett confined to the sidelines while he favors the ultra-Orthodox politicians, who care only for their own… Read More ›
Florida Synagogue Sanctions Members For Participating In COVID-19 Minyan
DEERFIELD BEACH — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drag on, some communities are demonstrating that they will not stand for any violations of social… Read More ›
Watch: Massive crowds gather in Mea Shearim for Lag Ba’Omer bonfires
In Bnei Brak, hundreds of residents gathered around a fire lit in the middle of Damesek Eliezer Street street. Police arrived on the scene, quickly… Read More ›
Gilad Erdan Appointed As Next Israeli Ambassador To Both US, UN
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Gilad Erdan, currently Israel’s public security minister, will serve simultaneously as the nation’s ambassador to Washington and the United Nations, Prime… Read More ›
Ukrainian Police Official Requests List Of Jews In Western City Of Kolomyya
UKRAINE (JTA) – A Ukrainian Jewish group accused the nation’s police force of “open anti-Semitism” after a high-ranking police official requested a list of all… Read More ›
Israel bans all Lag BaOmer bonfires due to coronavirus outbreak
Traditional lighting of bonfires banned in private homes and gardens due to fears of another mass spike in infections and possible house fires; pilgrims not… Read More ›
From New York to Milan, how coronavirus is hitting Jewish communities worldwide
While Israel, with 238 dead, has virus largely under control, Jewish rate of death is exponentially higher in Diaspora where COVID-19 is devastating parts of… Read More ›
Minister: Israel ready to help world Jewry fight virus, but not exactly sure how
Diaspora Affairs Minister Tzipi Hotovely says Jerusalem exploring ways to help, in talks with community leaders, but Diaspora Jews yet to formulate concrete needs … Read More ›
Inside story of the funeral of a NY rabbi, a COVID-19 victim, that went so wrong
The police wanted to help and ‘barricaded the streets.’ The synagogue aimed for a respectful, socially distant funeral. It didn’t work out that way. And then came… Read More ›
Opinion: Mayor DE Blasio Is No Enemy of Orthodox Jews. but Others Are Weaponizing the Coronavirus to Vilify Our Community.
NEW YORK (JTA-Rabbi Avi Shafran) — Among the most disturbing spectacles over the months since the coronavirus was unleashed on the world have been… Read More ›
Gantz at Independence Day ceremony: Israel must prepare for tough times
“We will win war” against coronavirus, Knesset speaker says Knesset Speaker Benny Gantz compared the fight against the coronavirus to Israel’s wars in his… Read More ›
Amsterdam’s Jewish nursing home lost over 20% of its residents to COVID-19
Beth Shalom struggles to contain the spread and to answer questions if it could have acted sooner, or done more to save the lives of… Read More ›
One day a year, give us peace and let us mourn
Opinion: The humbling days between Holocaust Remembrance Day and Memorial Day for the fallen remind us of our shared fate together as a nation, but… Read More ›
A shovel for each mourner: Maryland Jewish cemetery rewrites funeral traditions
The Times of Israel attends the social-distanced burial of Anna Grosz, a ‘larger than life’ 94-year-old Holocaust survivor who was felled by COVID-19 CLARKSBURG, Maryland… Read More ›
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