Month May 2021
Senator Bernie Sanders has dropped his efforts to force a vote on a $735 million arms sale to Israel. The State Department has already finalized the sale, and the Senate… Read more » The post Sanders Stops Effort to Halt… Continue Reading →
U.S. prosecutors in 2019 sought the electronic messages of two ex-Ukrainian government officials and a Ukrainian businessman as part of their probe of Rudy Giuliani’s dealings in that country, a… Read more » The post U.S. got ex-Ukrainian Officials’ Data… Continue Reading →
DEP Kicks Off Summer Season By Welcoming The Public To Enjoy The Outdoors At State Parks And Forests
New Jersey’s state parks, forests, recreation areas and historic sites are gearing up to expand camping amenities and offer numerous outdoor educational programs ahead of Memorial Day weekend, Acting Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette announced today. Acting… Continue Reading →
Ford expects 40% of its global sales to be battery-electric vehicles by 2030 as it adds billions to what it’s spending to develop them. Ahead of a presentation to Wall… Read more » The post Ford: Electric Vehicles to be… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Did Jews living in the First Temple period scrupulously maintain the laws of kashrus? The prophet Yeshayahu already decries those “who eat the flesh of the swine and the detestable thing and the rodent, they shall perish… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden is expected to name former senior State Department official Tom Nides to serve as ambassador to Israel, according to a person familiar with the matter. Nides is currently the managing director and vice chairman of Morgan Stanley…. Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Thousands of Belz chasidim celebrated Tuesday night the wedding of the rebbe’s grandson R’ Dovid Rokach, a son of his only son Rabbi Aharon Rokach. The wedding took place at the Arena stadium in south Jerusalem R’… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden invited his Israeli counterpart, President Reuven Rivlin, to visit the White House as the latter enters his final weeks in office. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken… Read more » The post Rivlin Accepts Biden’s Invitation to… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews/JNS) — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that any violations of Jerusalem and sites holy to Muslims would spark a regional war. Speaking publicly for the first time since the ceasefire ending the 11-day war between… Continue Reading →
U.S. prosecutors in 2019 sought the electronic messages of two ex-Ukrainian government officials and a Ukrainian businessman as part of their probe of Rudy Giuliani’s dealings in that country, a lawyer accidentally revealed in a court filing Tuesday. The filing… Continue Reading →
Los Angeles police on Tuesday arrested a second suspect in an alleged assault by a pro-Palestinian group on Jewish men outside a restaurant last week. Samer Jayylusi, 35, of Whittier was arrested in Anaheim and booked on suspicion of assault… Continue Reading →
A subcontractor working on a Republican-led audit of the 2020 election results in Arizona’s largest county has dropped out of the project. Wake Technology Solutions Inc. was leading the hand-recount part of the audit but decided not to renew its… Continue Reading →
Minister of Public Security Amir Ohana (Likud) replied on Wednesday in the Knesset Plenum to a parliamentary question by MK Betzalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism) on forming a commission of inquiry… Read more » The post Ohana: Response Given to Citizens… Continue Reading →
Former Bank of Israel Governor David Klein has passed away at the age of 86, the central bank said on Wednesday. Klein, who died on Tuesday night, began at the… Read more » The post Former Bank of Israel Gov…. Continue Reading →
Eitan Biran, the 5-year-old lone survivor of a cable car crash in Italy that killed his parents, sister and great-grandparents, z”l, has begun to wake up from his coma at… Read more » The post Israeli Cable Car Survivor Opens… Continue Reading →
The Belgian government said on Wednesday it was suspending vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine for people under the age of 41 following the death of a woman… Read more » The post Belgium Halts J&J COVID Jab… Continue Reading →
Republican leaders forcefully condemned GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday, calling her comments comparing COVID-19 safety measures like mask-wearing to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany “appalling.” “Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors… Continue Reading →
Republican leaders forcefully condemned GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday, calling her comments comparing COVID-19 safety measures like mask-wearing to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany “appalling.” “Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors… Continue Reading →
A few hours after the latest cease-fire took effect in the Gaza Strip, a number of Palestinian journalists in the coastal enclave found they were blocked from accessing WhatsApp messenger — a crucial tool used to communicate with sources, editors… Continue Reading →
The New Seminary invites you to a Virtual Open House. Learn about a Master’s Degree in Childhood & Special Education, leading to two NY state certifications from one degree! As an exclusive collaborative program of PACE University, TEAM Education Services… Continue Reading →
An explosion on an oxygen pipeline in a petrochemical plant in Assaluyeh on Iran’s Gulf coast killed one worker, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday, adding that the ensuing fire… Read more » The post Blast at Iran’s Petrochemical Plant… Continue Reading →