Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Business

FAIL: Lego Aborts Bricks Made of Recycled Plastic, Says Did Not Help Climate

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(VINnews) — Iconic toymaker Lego has abandoned a climate-friendly initiative to manufacture its bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying the prototype FAILED to reduce carbon e...

Child Thieves Terrorizing NYC Establishments: ‘Police can’t arrest me, I’m just a kid’

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NEW YORK CITY (VINnews) — A gang of thieves has been targeting bars and other establishments in New York. What makes these bandits unusual–they are all under ten years old. Jaco...

WATCH: Ben Shapiro on Musk’s Lawsuit Against ADL: ‘Almost impossible to win’

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(VINnews) — Conservative podcast host Ben Shapiro discussed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League on his show Wednesday. Shapiro slammed the ADL as a “progressi...

WATCH: Jewish Influencer Calls Out ‘Frum Twitter’ For Shaming Other Jews

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(VINnews) — A well-known Orthodox Jewish influencer posted a message on Twitter, calling out a trend that he feels has become very damaging to the frum community. Berel Solomon ...

Israel’s conservative ‘Channel 14’ accuses business moguls of conspiring to cancel it

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ISRAEL (JNS) — The Israel Competition Authority confirmed to JNS that it received a request from Channel 14, Israel’s only conservative television station with a news department, t...

Kosher Soft-Serve Ice Cream Recalled Due to Serious Health Risk

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(VINnews) — A Chalav Yisrael ice cream company has recalled certain products due to possible listeria contamination. “Soft Serve on the Go”, the kosher ice cream and sorbet that...

At New Jersey Expo, Satmar Chassidim Conduct Business With a Purpose (PICTURES)

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NEW YORK (JNS) - The sages informed King David early one morning that the Jewish people required financial assistance. “Let them go and support one another,” the biblical king told...

Twitter or Threads: A New Battle Brews in the Realm of Social Media

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The dynamic social media landscape has witnessed a significant move by Meta, the parent company of Instagram, as it launches Threads, a standalone app formulated to facilitate publ...

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Tells Ami Magazine He Appreciates Jewish Values

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(VINnews) — This week’s Ami Magazine features Kevin O’Leary front and center. The billionaire entrepreneur, famous for his longtime role on Shark Tank, rose to prominence after sel...

Kashrut website warns about fake kosher symbols in India, China

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(JNS) — The website Kashrut.com is warning those who keep kosher to beware of fraudulent symbols purporting to signify kosher certification, particularly in India. Arlene Mathes...

READ: Customer Sends Hundreds of Dollars to Restaurant, Begs for Forgiveness For Repeatedly Not Paying

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LAKEWOOD (VINnews) — A food establishment received a letter from a former “regular” patron, along with hundreds of dollars in cash, apparently owed to the store, after years of din...

Jewish Influencers Rave About Netflix’s ‘Jewish Matchmaking’…With One Big Caveat

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PLEASE NOTE: ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ is not appropriate for a Jewish audience. Period. NEW YORK (VINnews) — Netflix has released yet another show which highlights the orthodox Jewi...

REPORT: Surge in Antisemitic Tweets Since Musk Takeover

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(VINnews) — According to a new report, antisemitic Tweets surged after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. The report is based on a study — conducted by the Institute for Strategic...

Passengers Whose Plane Plunged Told by Crew to Delete Videos of Terrifying Ordeal

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(VINnews) — Lufthansa passengers whose flight suffered severe turbulence, causing their plane to plummet thousands of feet, were ordered by crew members to delete all photos and vi...

WATCH: Residents of East Palestine Confront Train CEO – ‘We are not Dummies’

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OHIO (Yaakov M / VINnews) — In this dramatic, heart-wrenching CNN footage, angry residents of East Palestine confronted the Norfolk Southern CEO at a town hall discussing the toxic...

Elon Musk Hopes To Have Twitter CEO Toward The End Of Year

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that he anticipates finding a CEO for Twitter “probably toward the end of this year." Speaking via a vide...

Bill Gates Joins 26 Newcomers On List Of 50 Biggest Donors

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NEW YORK (AP) - As the ranks of America’s super wealthy grow, the roster of major philanthropists is expanding to include not-so-typical megadonors — among them, a professional cla...

US Inflation Slows To 6.4%, But Price Pressures Re-Emerge

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The pace of consumer price increases eased again in January compared with a year earlier, the latest sign that the high inflation that has gripped Americans for n...

Kosher Holiday Inn Kitchen Opens in Albany for Local Community And Travelers (VIDEO)

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ALBANY (VINnews) — For the first time ever, the capital city of Albany has a kosher kitchen located in a hotel. Ezra Friedlander, CEO, The Friedlander Group, a PR and lobbying firm...

Jewish Congressman Who Complained About Antisemitism on Twitter Gets Barrage of Antisemitic Tweets

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WASHINGTON (VINnews) — A Jewish Congressman who expressed frustration over antisemitism on Twitter during a House hearing was later bombarded with antisemitic messages on the platf...