3+ hour ago   (945+ words) NEW YORK (VINnews) — Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, sharply criticized attacks against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and warned that labeling the mayor an antisemite could create unnecessary tensions between Jews and the broader society....

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (453+ words) NEW YORK (VINnews) — Gabe Einhorn says he never intended for the controversy surrounding Austin Franco, a job applicant who refused to work for a Jewish employer, to escalate to the point where Franco was reportedly asked to leave his parents…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (619+ words) JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Since the escalation of tensions last year and the wave of anti-government protests in Iran in January 2026, the country’s Jewish community has found itself under increasing pressure from the regime of the ayatollahs. The community, one of the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (407+ words) The article traces the synagogue’s transformation from a fledgling congregation founded by Schneier in 1990 into what the newspaper describes as the “ultimate political pit stop” in the Hamptons, where governors, presidential hopefuls, diplomats and corporate leaders routinely meet with members…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (445+ words) WASHINGTON (VINnews) — Ashley L. Jackson, the daughter of the late civil rights leader and Baptist minister Rev. Jesse Jackson, has revealed that she converted to Judaism after a yearslong spiritual journey, writing that her father embraced her decision and supported…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1313+ words) By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach “The Rebbe believed every human being could change. He never asked Jews to surrender moral clarity in the hope that someone someday might.” Few Jewish leaders have shaped modern Judaism more profoundly than the Lubavitcher Rebbe,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (14+ words) VINnews By Rabbi Yair Hoffman...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (432+ words) JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Knesset on Thursday approved in its second and third readings a bill sponsored by MK Limor Son Har-Melech, chairwoman of the Knesset Lobby for Charedi and Religious Women from the Otzma Yehudit party, allowing institutions of higher…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (866+ words) JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Anyone who followed the Knesset debates could have come away thinking that the Basic Law: Torah Study is primarily a symbolic declaration, a few short sentences expressing the status of Torah scholars in the State of Israel. That…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1838+ words) BROOKLYN (JNS) – Inna Vernikov, 41, had been speaking with JNS for about an hour when she delivered one of her characteristically blunt verdicts on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. “He’s a liar,” the New York City Council member said matter-of-factly....