(JTA) — Actress Winona Ryder said she was passed over for a movie role because the studio head thought she looked “too Jewish” and Mel Gibson once asked her if she was an “oven dodger.” Ryder talked about her experiences with anti-Semitism in Hollywood as part of wide-ranging interview published in the London-based Sunday Times. […]

PAMIERS, FRANCE (VINNews) —In a small French town in the Pyrenees foothills, residents evidently do not like change. For the past 25 years they have been voting for the same Jewish mayor, André Trigano, and this week the 94-year old Jewish mayor of Pamiers is aiming to get re-elected when voters go to the polls […]

BERLIN (AP) — The former CEO of German payment service provider Wirecard has been arrested, accused of inflating the company’s balance sheet in an accounting scandal that centers on a missing sum of 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion), prosecutors in Munich said Tuesday. Markus Braun resigned on Friday after the company said that auditors couldn’t […]

GENOA,ITALY (VINnews) — A leading Italian infectious diseases specialist claims that coronavirus is now much less dangerous than it used to be, and may die out without requiring a vaccine, according to a Sunday Telegraph report. Professor Matteo Bassetti, an infectious disease expert at the Policlinico San Martino hospital in Genoa,Italy, claimed that the virus […]

BERLIN (AP) — German payment service provider Wirecard said Monday it has concluded that 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) which were supposed to be held in two accounts probably don’t exist, deepening troubles that last week prompted the resignation of its chief executive. Wirecard AG was once regarded as a star of the growing financial […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Rabbi Shimon Ragobay, a senior medical advisor for the Chareidi community in Israel and the director of the Mazor organization, called for a return to open space minyanim and the closure of all shuls in the wake of the significant increase in cases of coronavirus in Israel. Ragovay says that “we […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s currency on Monday dropped to its lowest value ever against the dollar and officials warned Iranian exporters to bring their foreign earnings home from abroad. Money exchange shops briefly traded the Iranian rial 200,000 for a dollar and later in the day, the currency was valued at 198,000 rials against […]

(JTA) — A kindergarten in Melbourne was defaced with spray-paint that read “4th Reich” and was accompanied by a Star of David. The school hit was the Middle Park Kindergarten in Melbourne’s Albert Park neighborhood, the Australian Jewish News reported. The vandalism was reported to the Anti-Defamation Commission of Melbourne on Saturday by a non-Jewish […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent an unequivocal warning to Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz who has persistently refused to adopt the Trump plan including declaring sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria. The Yisrael Hayom newspaper reported that there is significant tension between Netanyahu and Gantz due to the American demand that […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality will recognize same-sex, interfaith and other couples who are not eligible to be married by the state’s religious authorities. Those couples who live together will be allowed to register their relationship with a statement to the city. They will be eligible for municipal benefits, including housing tax discounts, […]