Month July 2023
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Jewish youth affiliated with the Chabad community was stabbed and lightly injured in an antisemitic attack which occurred in Brooklyn Friday night at about 2 AM. The youth was taken to hospital and released a… Continue Reading →
Several campers at Camp Sternberg were injured on Friday afternoon when lightning struck the camp’s grounds. Catskills Hatzolah responded to the scene and treated multiple campers, subsequently transporting them to the hospital for evaluation. B’chasdei hashem, none of the campers… Continue Reading →
Fire crews on Saturday continued to battle flames that have smoldered inside a cargo ship docked at the East Coast’s biggest port, days after the blaze claimed the lives of two New Jersey firefighters and injured five others. Newark firefighters… Continue Reading →
WARREN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities from local, state and federal agencies were searching Saturday for an inmate described by police as “very dangerous” who escaped from a jail in northwestern Pennsylvania using bed sheets, officials said. Michael Burham, 34, escaped… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Sefas Tamim Foundation QUESTION: There is a college professor who engages in a strange type of bullying toward his students. These students are PhD researchers. He approaches them with an idea to collaborate on… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A scooter-riding gunman killed an 87-year-old man and wounded three others in a string of random shootings that stretched across two New York City boroughs, police said Saturday. A 25-year-old man was taken into custody without… Continue Reading →
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An apartment building condemned for more than a decade but used by homeless people collapsed in Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco, killing 14 people, including six children, firefighters reported Saturday. The building in Recife’s Paulista… Continue Reading →
ISRAEL (VINnews) — A delegation of leading American Roshei Yeshiva have traveled to Israel to consult with Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlit”a about the Shidduch Crisis, according to Charedi media outlets. According to the report, the group is considering a… Continue Reading →
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations of President Donald Trump’s retention of classified records and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election have cost more than $9 million over the first several months, according to documents released Friday. The… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — IDF Givati commandos and Police Special Forces eliminated two terrorists in the city of Shechem after they perpetrated a shooting attack at a police van near Har Bracha. The two, identified as Hairi Shahin and Hamza Maqbul,… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Six people were charged Friday in an alleged scheme to divert tens of thousands of dollars in public money to New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ campaign months before his election. The indictment, announced by Manhattan… Continue Reading →
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Friday headlined his largest Iowa campaign event in nearly four months with a speech to thousands at an arena in the western part of the state. Trump used his appearance… Continue Reading →
WANTAGH, N.Y. (AP) — Off the coast of Long Island, drones sweep over the ocean, patrolling the water for any danger that might lurk below the surface as beachgoers grow more vigilant because of a recent spate of shark encounters…. Continue Reading →
NEW HAMPSHIRE (JNS) – New Hampshire became the 37th U.S. state to put an anti-BDS action on its books. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed an executive order on Thursday barring the state from investing in companies that boycott Israel or… Continue Reading →
NEAR TSEL, Belarus (AP) — The Belarusian military on Friday showed off a field camp it has offered to Russia’s Wagner military contractor if it relocates to Belarus under a deal that ended its mutiny. Maj. Gen. Leonid Kosinsky, an… Continue Reading →
Rabbi Yitzchok and Nechama Dina Minkowicz, Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida “Chabad Shows Up!” By: Chaya Chazan Download For Shabbas Reading We both knew we wanted to go on shlichus. We were offered many positions in many cities,… Continue Reading →
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut lawmaker who was attacked last month while leaving a Muslim prayer service accused police in Hartford of downplaying the assault and called Thursday for a federal investigation of the department’s handling of violent crimes,… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new, text-based app called Threads, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In a Wednesday letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub sued New York City on Thursday to block its new minimum pay rules for food delivery workers. The recently announced rules, touted as a national first, could nearly triple average earnings… Continue Reading →
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq opened an investigation into the case of a dual Israeli-Russian academic who has been missing in Iraq since March, a government spokesman said Friday. Bassem al-Awadi’s comments were the first official Iraqi statements since Israeli Prime… Continue Reading →