NOWY SACZ, POLAND (VINnews) — Archaeologists and historians who are members of the History Association in Poland stumbled upon a Jewish treasure trove while excavating the remnants of an old castle in Nowy Sacz, known as Tzanz by Jews worldwide. The trove contains many valuable Judaica items including silverware, cups, knives and forks and other […]

LONDON (AP) – Researchers in England say they have the first evidence that a drug can improve COVID-19 survival: A steroid called dexamethasone reduced deaths by up to one third in severely ill hospitalized patients. Results were announced Tuesday and researchers said they would publish them soon. The study is a large, strict test that […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s military on Tuesday threatened to move back into zones that were demilitarized under inter-Korean peace agreements as the country continued to dial up pressure on rival South Korea amid stalled nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration. The General Staff of the Korean People’s Army said it’s reviewing a […]

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday sentenced an American businessman to 16 years in prison on spying charges, a sentence that he and his brother rejected as being political. The Moscow City Court read out the conviction of Paul Whelan on charges of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum […]

ATLANTA (VINnews) — Police released footage from the arrest and subsequent shooting of Raychard Brooks outside an Atlanta restaurant Friday night. The footage shows a police officer calmly approaching Brooks car which is blocking a drive-thru and asking him why he is there. Brooks is initially asleep and when he responds he appears disoriented. The […]

KOCHAV HASHACHAR (VINnews) — Border Police and Civil Administration officials demolished Monday morning six illegal buildings in the Baladim outpost as well as six other buildings in the “Maoz Esther” outpost near Kochav Hashachar in the Binyamin region. The Maoz Esther outpost was established in 2005 in memory of local resident Esther Galia who was […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — “There is a grave concern of a spike in repeat strokes,” says Prof. David Tene, the director of the Stroke And Cognition Institute at Haifa’s Rambam hospital and the head of the Israeli Neurology Association. Prof. Tene says that numerous people refrained from going to hospital during the coronavirus epidemic despite having […]

PARIS (JTA) – Paris police are investigating after multiple participants were heard shouting “dirty Jews” at a demonstration in Paris focused on Adama Traore, a black man who died in police custody there in 2016. The chants erupted at Republique Square on Saturday during “Justice for Adama” rally, part of an international protest movement against […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda accused the LGBT rights movement Saturday of promoting a viewpoint more harmful than communism and said he agreed with another conservative politician who stated that “LGBT is not people, it’s an ideology.” Duda made his comments in the small southwestern town of Brzeg as he campaigns for […]

PARIS (AP) — The French praised the altruism of their prized textile and luxury goods companies when production facilities got diverted from churning out the latest fashions to making cloth masks designed to protect the general public from the coronavirus. Now, the companies that helped France avoid a feared shortage of virus-filtering face wear for […]