AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Muslim man who was charged with trying to kill a Jewish father and son at an Amsterdam market was found not criminally responsible for his actions and sent for psychological care. A Dutch judge ruled that Taha Ewis Bakri Abdel Ghani suffered from delusions, heard voices and experienced a psychosis at […]

NEW HAVEN (VINnews) — Judge Jon Alander has formally sentenced Rabbi Daniel Greer to 20 years in state prison. Greer was accused of repeatedly abusing students at his Norton Street boarding school. Greer was sentenced Monday morning in State Superior Court at 235 Church St. Judge Alander stated his hope that the sentence would serve […]

MONTREAL (JTA)—A Jewish student leader at McGill University in Montreal is fighting efforts to oust her from the student union for accepting a trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Jocelyn Wright, a member of the Student Society of McGill University’s legislative council and board of directors, said she is “outraged and disgusted” by an […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Moshe Holtzberg, whose parents were killed in the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai when he was 2, was called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah. Holtzberg was called to the Torah on Saturday in his home town of Afula in northern Israel, Chabad.org reported. A party was held on Sunday night […]

CHICAGO (JTA) — A university in Chicago has removed a faculty member from a course after a marketing assignment included a question on whether the Holocaust happened. National Louis University is investigating the incident, NBC Chicago reported. The assignment was designed to spot bad survey questions and to fix them, according to Inside Higher Education. […]

MIAMI BEACH (VINnews) — For perhaps the first time ever, an Orthodox Jew will sit on the Miami commission. Steven Meiner, along with David Richardson, joined the 7 member board this past Monday at a swearing-in ceremony at the commission meeting. Richardson and Meiner, who were elected in the Nov. 19 runoff elections, are replacing […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The village of Palm Tree – Kiryas Joel will have its own courthouse for the first time, after the community voted in 2 judges via write-in. The Times Herald Record reports, that Richard Croughan and Stephen Hunter enjoyed the endorsement of the Kiryas Joel community on the November 5th election, with […]

OSWIECIM (VINnews) — The Polish town of Oświęcim, situated adjacent to the site of the infamous concentration camp Auschwitz, was once the home of a thriving Jewish community, which numbered some 8000 Jews before the Second World War. At a special  ceremony Thursday in the town, the site which once hosted the Great Synagogue of […]

MALMO (JTA) — The Swedish city of Malmo will allocate some $2 million to initiatives to protect its Jewish community from anti-Semitism. Malmo, a city where one third of the population is from Muslim countries, is home to several hundred Jews and has dozens of anti-Semitic incidents annually. Among the initiatives proposed by the city’s […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A ledger listing eye-witness accounts of the deaths of Jews in Nazi camps was kept at Bergen Belsen in order to allow their surviving spouses to remarry. The Bergen-Belsen rabbinical court collected the testimonies at the end of World War II and lists deaths in Nazi camps including Auschwitz, Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen. […]