15+ hour, 3+ min ago   (232+ words) WASHINGTON D.C (VINnews) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations presented its Champion of Justice Award to Ben Cohen, the Jewish co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, at its 32nd annual gala Saturday night, which fell on the second night of Rosh Hashanah. CAIR said…...

16+ hour, 19+ min ago   (377+ words) CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (VINnews) — A Jewish billionaire who froze a $100 million pledge to Harvard University after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel has agreed to resume the gift, following two years of outreach by the university’s president and changes addressing campus…...

16+ hour, 40+ min ago   (349+ words) BOCA RATON, Fla. — A Kansas man has been charged with making antisemitic death threats against conservative commentator and Boca Raton resident Ben Shapiro, including an online countdown to Yom Kippur, according to court records. Korby Allen Strube, 29, of Horton, Kansas,…...

22+ hour, 6+ min ago   (523+ words) JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yehuda Aharon Widavski, a Holocaust survivor who endured the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz before devoting decades to preserving the memory of Poland’s destroyed Jewish communities, has passed away at the age of 107. Widavski, who was active in restoring…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (261+ words) NASHVILLE (VINnews) – Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro criticized Tucker Carlson this week after Carlson hosted a South Dakota artist who dismissed algebra as “fake math” and used language critics described as antisemitic. The exchange came from an episode of “The Tucker…...

4+ day, 13+ min ago   (519+ words) VINnews PROVIDENCE, R.I. (VINnews) — Israel policy and a surge in local antisemitic incidents became central fault lines in Providence’s Democratic mayoral primary, pitting first-term Mayor Brett Smiley against state Rep. David Morales in a contest that Jewish communal leaders said was…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (306+ words) UNITED NATIONS (VINnews) — Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations launched an international Task Force on Combating Antisemitism on Wednesday, saying the world body can no longer treat rising Jew-hatred as a problem of words rather than action. Ambassador Danny Danon…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (429+ words) NASHVILLE, TENN. (VINnews) — A Republican from New York and a Democrat from New Jersey announced a new House caucus this week aimed at confronting antisemitism on American college campuses, pairing congressional oversight with pressure on universities to protect Jewish students....

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (289+ words) DETROIT (VINnews) — A coalition of Michigan rabbis and Jewish leaders has issued an open letter outlining five “nonnegotiable” principles that Democratic candidates must affirm to earn their votes, an effort organizers said is directed at U.S. Senate nominee Abdul…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (155+ words) NEW YORK (VINnews) — Police are asking the public for help identifying a man accused of knocking a Jewish man’s yarmulke off his head in an unprovoked attack in Lower Manhattan in May. The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force said a…...