WATCH: NYPD Police Commissioner Visits Williamsburg To Announce Arrests in Recent Attacks On Hasidic Jews
WILLIAMSBURG (VINnews) - NYPD Commissioner Sewell. Keechant L. Sewell held a press conference in Williamsburg Monday evening, and announced the arrests of 2 individuals that spraye...
Trump’s Legal Defense Strategy and the Gedolei HaRoshei Yeshiva of Europe: an Analysis
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
The great Roshei Yeshiva have encouraged their students to always look at everything – including current events, in light of the Torah and th...
Texas Is Shipping Migrants To New York. Masbia Group Is Giving Them A Warm Welcome.
NEW YORK (JTA) - The weathered transit halls of New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal have been turned into a makeshift immigration office over the last couple weeks, ever since T...
Man Suspected Of Killing 3 ‘Terrorized’ Detroit, Chief Says
DETROIT (AP) — A 19-year-old man suspected of randomly killing three people on Detroit streets over roughly two hours may have been emboldened when he didn't encounter police after...
THE DEFINITIVE RAP: Aliyah Information for Challenging Circumstances; Interview with Lisa Berlowitz
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Since 1948 more than 3 million Jews have made Aliyah. According to The Jewish Agency and Nefesh B’Nefesh, over 3,000 immigrants from the United States move th...
Lawyers Awarded $70M+ Fees In Deadly Florida Condo Collapse
SURFSIDE, FL (AP) — Lawyers who secured a $1.1 billion settlement in the deadly collapse last year of a beachfront Florida condominium building were awarded more than $70 million i...
Police: 2 Killed In Oregon Grocery Store, Suspect Found Dead
BEND, Ore. (AP) — A person entered a grocery store in Bend, Oregon, Sunday evening and fatally shot two people, authorities said.
The person believed to be the shooter was found...
Twitter Suspends ‘Libs-of-Tik-Tok’, Does Not Specify Which Tweet was ‘Offensive’
CALIFORNIA (VINnews) — This weekend, the popular “Libs of TikTok” account was suspended by Twitter, over alleged violations of the social media platform’s guidelines.
A suspensi...
Detroit Police Search For Gunman In Fatal ‘Random’ Shootings
DETROIT (AP) — Four people were shot, three fatally, by a person who appeared to be firing at people randomly over a roughly 2 1/2-hour period Sunday morning in Detroit, police sai...
Low Fuel Inventories Cause Special Concern In US Northeast
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Diesel and heating oil supplies in the Northeast are more than 50% below the recent average, raising concerns that an extreme weather event could cause suppl...
Maryland Court Rules DC-Area Sniper To Be Resentenced
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s highest court has ruled that Washington, D.C.-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo must be resentenced, because of U.S. Supreme Court decisions relating to c...
Small Businesses Feel The Pinch From Slowing Housing Market
NEW YORK (AP) — The chill in the housing market is rippling out to the carpenters, landscapers and other small businesses that lose out when fewer homeowners are renovating their p...
Crist Picks Miami Teachers Union Leader As Running Mate
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Democrat Charlie Crist on Saturday tapped Miami-Dade County teachers union president Karla Hernandez-Mats as his running mate as he challenges Republican G...
Turbulence On Florida To Utah Flight Injures 3 Passengers
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Three passengers on a Delta Airlines flight from Orlando to Salt Lake City suffered injuries when the jet encountered turbulence, the airline said.
Delta s...
Justice Dept. Releases Redacted Mar-a-lago Search Affidavit
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained documents with classification markings, including...
New York City’s Bukharian Jews Find Their Voice In A Dispute Over Damaged Graves
NEW YORK (JTA) - A dispute with a Jewish cemetery in Queens is inspiring unusual activism in New York’s Bukharian Jewish community.
Leaders of the community, whose members immig...
Cry Wolf? Debate Over Presence Of Wolves In Northeast
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Are wolves hunting and howling in the Northeast woods again, more than a century after they were rooted out of the region?
Advocates who think so say a recen...
Conservative Groups: ‘CNN’ Downplays Anti-Semitic Hate And Violence Towards Orthodox Jews
NEW YORK (JNS) - Orthodox and politically conservative Jewish groups are criticizing CNN’s special report on anti-Semitism that aired on Sunday night, alleging that it whitewashed ...
The 3 Types of Lyme Disease Believers
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
As people are coming back from camp and vacation, everyone should be checking themselves and their children for ticks. If a tick is found on a...
Officials: Person Jumps FBI Fence Chicago FBI, Throws Rocks
CHICAGO (AP) — A person jumped the fence outside the FBI's Chicago field office and began throwing rocks at the building on Thursday morning, authorities said.
No injuries were ...