V.I.N. in the Media

August 7, 2007
Boys’ Camp Trip Ends Fatally Times Herald Record
Members of Bangor’s Jewish community went to the hospital to comfort the boys. According to the Jewish news blog Vos Iz Neias, members of Bangor’s Congregation Beth Israel brought the boys yarmulkes because theirs were lost in the crash.

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August 6, 2007
Summer Camp Van Accident AP Newswire
A private plane left from New York’s Long Island to retrieve the victim’s body for burial within 24 hours in keeping with Jewish custom, according to Vos Iz Neias, a blog that describes itself as “The Voice of the New York Orthodox Jewish Community.”

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August 2, 2007
Miracle at Bridge Collapse JTA Breaking News
Roman Koyrakh, a 20-year-old college student, was on the bridge at 6 p.m. Wednesday, when the bridge collapsed, according to a report on Vos Iz Neias, a religious news Web site. His airbag was activated, but his car hit the river and started filling with water. “There was a loud bang, and my car buckled suddenly,” he told Vos Iz Neias.

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May 1st, 2007
Questioning the School Questionnaire Gotham Gazette
But the survey has fans, too. The Voz Iz Neias blog, which bills itself as the voice of the city’s Orthodox Jewish community, says, “It would be a good idea for Yeshivas, and Jewish private schools to follow this idea.”

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April 29, 2007
Weak signals stir strong emotions The Post Star
The blog Vos Iz Neias, which calls itself “The Voice of the New York Orthodox Jewish Community,” has blamed Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s administration and environmental groups for holding up the process, and referred to the APA as a terrorist organization.

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March 13, 2007
Orthodox Jewish blog Voz Iz Neias had the scoop two weeks ago Gothamist
Orthodox Jewish blog Voz Iz Neias had the scoop two weeks ago, noting that Oorah has apparently been saying “freilichen Purim” “behind their backs for the last few months already.”

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March 01, 2007
Vos Iz Neias urges the peripatetic lawmaker Dov Hikind The Daily Politics
In an open letter to Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Orthodox Jewish blogger Shlomah Shamos of Vos Iz Neias urges the peripatetic lawmaker to spend less time building settlements in the Palestinian territories and more time building cell towers in the Adirondacks.

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February 25, 2007
Family speaks out about I-87 crash The Press Republican
Outcry reached a crescendo last week, with the Voz iz Neias (Yiddish for ‘What’s News’) Web site reporting thousands of phone calls to officials in Albany.
“Chazal Tell us ‘Kol Israel Arevim Ze Lezeh,’ we are all responsible for each other,” the Jewish news organization said.

Northway death seen as the last straw
“Thousands of our readers have read with great sadness about the tragic accident that happened last Friday on the (Northway),” the group said on the Vos Iz Neias Web site. “Unfortunately, we are also aware of the terrible fact that this could have been prevented … many of our readers travel this road often, and we know all too well the disastrous results that can happen when stranded without any means of outside contact.”
The group is asking all of its members to contact state lawmakers and voice support for cell towers.

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February 23, 2007
GOV GETS AN EARFUL ON TRAGEDY NY Post
An organizer of an Orthodox news and discussion Web site said he believes more than 1,000 people will have called Spitzer by today.

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Outrage at death for lack of signal Albany Times Union
The blog has attracted dozens of comments on the incident, most expressing anger that Langer’s death could have been prevented.

N’Way Cell Battle Intensifies
Voz Is Neias, a blog aimed at the Jewish community, is urging readers to renew their efforts to pressure Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the Adirondack Park Agency to accelerate the installation of cell towers along I-87.

Call Crusade For Cell Towers
Today’s campaign is being championed by an Orthodox Jewish blogger who has made this issue something of a cause celebre.

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Orthodox Jews Demand Adirondack Cell Coverage Adirondack Base Camp
A recent accident on the Northway has the Orthodox Jewish community in an uproar. Many don’t know it, but there is a huge amount of traffic between the NY metro area and orthodox communities in Quebec.

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Vos Iz Neias, is organizing a phone campaign The Daily Politics
the message is getting through in Albany.

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September 7, 2006
Butcher Is Accused of Passing Off Chicken as Kosher NY Times
The matter has been the talk of Jewish Web logs. One of them, Vos Iz Neias, announced it under the banner headline ”Butcher Sells Treifa Chicken as Kosher.” (Nonkosher food, or food that is not in accord with Jewish dietary laws, is called treif, which derives from the Hebrew word teref, or torn.) The posting generated 440 comments in two days.

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