Friday, March 29, 2024

Politics

TOBIN: Did RFK Jr. cross the line between unwise and antisemitic?

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(JNS) — In the age of Twitter, controversies in which people are accused of being bigots or antisemites should never be taken at face value. Speaking in public means putting onesel...

House Votes 412-9 That ‘Israel Is Not Racist Or Apartheid’ After Controversial Anti-Israel Statements

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — The US House of Representatives approved Tuesday evening  a resolution condemning antisemitism and affirming that Israel is neither a racist nor apartheid stat...

Israeli Air Force Strikes Damascus, Targeting Hezbollah Ammunition Depots

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli fighter jets carried out strikes against targets in the Syrian capital Damascus shortly after midnight on Wednesday, wounding two soldiers, according ...

Biden Pleads With Israeli Gvt. In NYT Interview: ‘Stop Judicial Reforms Without Broad Consensus’

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a special interview initiated by President Biden with New York Times correspondent Thomas Friedman, the president made a passionate plea to the Netanyahu go...

NBC Releases Unaired ‘American Ninja Warrior’ Footage Of Orthodox Competitor Cut After Shabbat Opt-Out

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NEW YORK (JTA) — When Michael Neuman found out his run on this season of the NBC obstacle course competition show “American Ninja Warrior” would not air, the competitor inside of h...

Hundreds Of Protesters Block Entrances To Israeli Rabbinical Courts Over Proposed Child Support Bill

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Some 200 left-wing demonstrators protested outside the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court Tuesday in the wake of a new bill which proposes to broaden the authority of ...

Democrat Congresswoman Seeks To Replace ‘Husband, Wife’ With ‘Spouse’ In Federal Laws

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — New legislation proposed by California Democrat congresswoman Julia Brownley seeks to remove the words "husband" and "wife" from federal law and replace them w...

IDF Chief Lashes Out At Reservist Refusals: ‘Endangering IDF And Israel’s Security’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As thousands of IDF reservists sign letters stating that they will refuse to come to volunteer reserve duty if the government continues judicial reforms, IDF ...

RFK Reaffirms False Claim About COVID, as Many Condemn His Comments

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Democrat Presidential candidate RFK jr. has gotten intense backlash, after his bizarre conspiracy comments suggesting that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” t...

NYC To Pay $1.8 Billion in Lawsuit Settlement Over ‘Racist’ Teaching Exam

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — New York City will pay nearly $2 billion to minorities who wanted to teach in public school but failed the “racist” teacher exam. As part of a lawsuit settl...

Teacher Ejected From Israeli Educators WA Group For Rejecting LGBTQ Materials For Kindergartens

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Sara Yiscah Sar-Shalom, a kindergarten teacher in Israel, described on Arutz Sheva what had transpired when she expressed a position on the issue of LGBTQ fam...

Egged Bus Blocked By Chareidi Protesters In Bnei Brak- Because The Driver Was Female

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Charedim waiting for an Egged bus in Bnei Brak Sunday blocked the bus when it arrived in protest over the driver- who was a woman. "They refused to enter and ...

Journalist Arnon Segal Defends Kidney Donation Exclusively For Jews: ‘My People Are My Community’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli journalist and Temple Mount activist Arnon Segal has come under fire for his decision to donate one of his kidneys exclusively to a Jewish recipient. ...
FILE - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert seen at the District Court in Tel Aviv where he was sentenced to six years in prison on May 13, 2014. (Yotam Ronen/Flash90)

Former PM Olmert Calls On US To ‘Reevaluate’ Relations With Israel

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a move designed to further alienate relations between the Netanyahu government and the US, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's has called on the Am...

After calling Israel ‘racist state,’ Rep Jayapal says ‘idea of Israel’ not racist

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(JNS) — As protesters with Palestinian flags disrupted a Saturday keynote with several members of Congress at the Netroots Nation conference, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) sought ...

PM Netanyahu Undergoes Heartrate Loop Recorder Implant, Released Sunday From Hospital

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Netanyahu was released Sunday morning from Tel Hashomer-Sheba hospital where he had been hospitalized after feeling unwell and dizzy. A stat...

Terrorist Shooting Near Tekoa, 1 Seriously Injured, 2 Children Lightly Injured

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Three people were injured in a terrorist shooting attack at the Tekoa Junction in Gush Etzion Sunday morning. Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that a man in...

RFK Jr. Suggests COVID-19 was Designed to Spare Jews (VIDEO)

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — RFK Jr. suggested this week that COVID-19 was genetically engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews. During a dinner with reporters Tuesday, Democratic presidenti...

Man Who Planned To Burn Bible Backs Off, Says He Aimed To Draw Attention To Kuran Desecration

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Ahmed Alloush, a 32-year-old Swedish national, planned to burn the Jewish Bible in front of the Israeli embassy in Sweden this Saturday, but refrained from ac...

WATCH: R’ Elchanan Poupko responds to the horrific news of planned torching of a Torah in Sweden

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My response to the despicable and cowardly decision to burn a #Torah in front of the Israeli consulate in #Stockholm, #Sweden. pic.twitter.com/wgf8Q724BH — Rabbi E. Poupko. #Fre...