Yearly Archives: 2008
New York, NY – Recession Fears Sink Stocks.
New York, NY - Stocks tanked Wednesday afternoon, the first trading day of 2008, as oil and gold prices at record highs and a report showing contraction in the manufacturing sector...
Odessa, Ukraine – Rabbi Condemns Inaction of Authorities in Face of Antisemitic Hate Speech
Odessa, Ukraine - Chief Rabbi Avraam Wolf, sharply criticized officials for not doing enough to combat antisemitic propaganda.In a statement, after leaflets calling for the murder ...
California +Holocaust Survivor U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos To Retire Due To Cancer+
U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the only Holocaust survivor elected to the U.S. Congress, is retiring because he is suffering from cancer.
Lantos, one of the most powerful member...
Ukraine – Ukrainian Rabbis Seen As Powerful Foreigners.
Ukraine- A Kiev weekly magazine cited two prominent Ukrainian rabbis among the most "powerful foreigners" in the country.
Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, one of the chief rabbis of Kiev...
Trenton, NJ – Medicaid Kids Rates Triple After Two-Decade Stagnation.
Trenton, NJ - Doctors who care for poor children in New Jersey are getting their first increase in Medicaid rates in two decades, with reimbursements more than tripling.
That shou...
Brooklyn, NY +Bias Crime at Senior Center+
Brooklyn, NY +Hate Crime at Senior Center+ NYPD Hate Crime Task Force are on the scene setting up a crime scene at 817 Avenue "H" and East 9th Street in regards to 3-foot-high swas...
New York, NY – NYC Has Lowest Rate Of Teen Smokers In U.S.
New York, NY - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas R. Frieden and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz released new data today from the 2007 New Yor...
New York – Oil Pushes To $100 a Barrel.
New York - Oil prices kicked off the first trading day of 2008 by hitting a new high of $100 a barrel Wednesday on violence in oil-rich Nigeria, the prospect of more interest rate ...
London – Study: Cancer-Fighting Gene in Ashkenazi Jewish Women
London - Jewish women of Eastern European descent who have ovarian cancer and carry certain genetic changes live longer than those without the mutations, according to a new study.A...
Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY +Working Fire+
Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY +Working Fire+ Fire Department responding all hands to a working fire on the 2nd floor of a 4 story multiple dwelling at 1801 50th Street and 18th Avenue...
London +Patients Moved From Burning Hospital+
London - Patients are being evacuated from a world famous London hospital after a major fire broke out on the top floor of the building.
The entire top floor of the Royal Marsden ...
Montreal, Canada – Canadian Editorial: Rabbis Should Rule on Jewish Divorce (Get), Not Secular Courts.
Montreal, Canada - At a time when our increasingly multicultural country is having to pick its way through a minefield of conflicting secular and religious rights, the Supreme Cour...
New York, NY – Is Mayor Bloomberg An Honest Politican?
New York, NY - One of the first issues Mayor Bloomberg is going to have to reckon with if he goes public with the presidential campaign he has been nursing, is why he has decided t...
Britain- A British Government Return Money Belonging to Nazi Victims Gone Over Budget.
Britain - A British government plan to return money belonging to Nazi victims has gone way over budget.
The Enemy Property Claims Assessment Panel, or Epcap, was set up to help pe...
Lexington, TN – Four Friends Killed in Fatal MVA on Way to Bris of Newborn
Lexington, TN - In a major accident on I-40 in Henderson County all four people in a vehicle have died. They were driving cross-country from California on their way to Charlotte, N...
Postville, Iowa – Rubashkin Consolidates Hechsher To OU & Rabbi Weissmandl, In A Marketing Move.
Pinned News - January 1, 2008
Postville, Iowa - After yesterday's report on our site, about KAJ's denial of removing Rubashkin's hechsher, VIN News receieved the following press...
Miami, FL – Miami Police To Set Up Surveillance Cameras Throughout City.
Miami, FL - The Miami Police Department will set up surveillance cameras throughout the streets of South Florida.
According to Police, these cameras will be monitored 24 hours a ...
Canberra, Australia – US, Israeli Embassies Evacuated Over Powder Packages
Canberra, Australia - Australian police launched a criminal investigation after the U.S., Israeli and British embassies were sent packages containing white powder, forcing evacuati...
Washington, DC – PA Disappointed That President Bush Won’t Visit Arafat’s Tomb
Washington, DC - President George W. Bush, who is expected to visit the Palestinians, does not intend to lay a wreath at Yasser Arafat's tomb.President Bush would not stop by ...
United Nations – UN Disgusting Resolution, Don’t Criticize Islam.
United Nations - It didn’t attract much notice, but the General Assembly of the United Nations ended the year by passing a disgusting resolution protecting Islam from criticism of...