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. […]

BERLIN (JTA) — A Jewish parent in the German city of Offenbach near Frankfurt is reportedly removing her son from public high school due to frequent anti-Semitic comments in the classroom, though her son is not personally targeted by them. It is the atmosphere in the school that led Alina R. to make the move. […]

NEW YORK (JNS) — For many of the attendees at last week’s “Never Is Now” conference in New York, which was sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, the global and, perhaps, geopolitical impacts on the rise in anti-Semitism were front and center of the discussions. But for a significant number of attendees, the concern was more […]

WILLIAMSBURG (VINnews) – The massive Metlife Stadium where the Siyum Hashas will be held on January 1st is nearly sold out, and Agudath Israel of America has booked a second venue: Barclays Center in Brooklyn. With around 93,000 seats at MetLife, the additional 19,000 seats at Barclays will bring the number of participants to an […]

WILLIAMSBURG (VINnews) — A minivan has crashed into a supermarket in Williamsburg. The accident occured at a fruit & vegetable store on the corner of S 9th St and Roebling Street. It appears that the accident started by the minivan being involved in a collision with a taxi in the intersection near the store. Hatzalah […]

MONSEY (VINnews) — The victim of the brutal stabbing attack in Monsey last week has now undergone a third surgery since the attack. This surgery was to put his eye back in its socket. When the victim woke up for surgery, he requested to call his father. The victim has already had two other surgeries, which […]

HEVRON(VINnews) — The Machpela Cave has known ups and downs in recent history. During the period of Turkish rule Jews were not permitted to enter the ancient Herodean edifice built above the cave and could only pray at the seventh step adjacent to the wall of the cave. Even during the British mandate Jews were […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Tens of thousands of sellers on Amazon.com are facing financial ruin overnight due to the consumer retail giant’s draconian new policy regarding items which are claimed to be counterfeit. The company has decided that even if one or two items are claimed to be counterfeit, without the claim even being corroborated, […]

This past Sunday, Bonei Olam arranged for rabbonim to hear from a renowned Swedish doctor who is a pioneer in the field of uterus transplants and was the first to deliver a healthy baby by such a procedure just four years ago. Over the last two decades, b’rachamei Shomayim, incredible medical developments have been witnessed, […]