Saturday, May 18, 2024

NY

Police Say 22 Injured When SUV Crashes Into NYC Restaurant

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NEW YORK (AP) — A hit-and-run driver rear-ended a sport utility vehicle and sent it crashing into a New York City restaurant, injuring 22 people, police said Tuesday. The crash ...

Email Surfaces from Anti-Chassid NYT Reporter Exposing Real Agenda

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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — An email has surfaced, sent by a NY Times reporter who authored the recent hit pieces against Chassidim, which exposes the newspaper’s antisemitic a...

NYC Nurses, Hospitals Resume Contract Talks; Some Reach Pact

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NEW YORK (AP) — A strike by thousands of New York City nurses loomed Monday even as nurses at one hospital reached a tentative agreement hours before their contract was set to expi...

Agudath Israel Launches A Battle For Public Opinion

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NEW YORK (JNS) - Facing the reality that fighting The New York Times’ “crusade” against Hasidic Jews behind the scenes wasn’t working, Orthodox Jewry is taking the battle public. ...

NY Lawmakers Get Pay Raise Making Them Nation’s Best-Paid

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Just in time for the New Year, New York lawmakers have become the highest paid state legislators in the nation under a bill signed Saturday. Members of both ...

Democrat Kathy Hochul Sworn In As Elected New York Governor

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul was sworn in for her first elected term on Sunday, making history as the first woman elected to the position in the state. The...

Alleged Islamic Extremist Attacked NYPD Cops With Machete Near Times Square, Identified

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NEW YORK (AP) — A man from Wells, Maine wielding a machete attacked three police officers at the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York City, authorities said, striking two of them...

Thousands Cheer As Ball Drops In New York City’s Times Square, Ushering In 2023 In The Largest U.S. New Year’s Party

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New York (AP) — Thousands cheer as ball drops in New York City's Times Square, ushering in 2023 in the largest U.S. New Year's party.
FILE - Developer Donald Trump talks with his former wife Ivana Trump during the men's final at the U.S. Open September 7, 1997. REUTERS/File Photo

Ivanka Trump Shares Emotional Post About Grieving For Her Mother

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FLORIDA (VINnews) — Ivanka Trump shared a heart-wrenching post on Instagram and Twitter about “grief”, following her mother Ivana Trump’s death in July. She wrote: “This is the ...

Chaveirim of 5 Towns/Rockaway Answers Record Number of Calls Over Freezing Temperature Weekend

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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com “The Proud. The Few. The Marines.”  This motto could very well have been used by another group of dedicated few – the Five Towns Far Rockaway ...

NY Opens Its First Legal Recreational Marijuana Dispensary

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NEW YORK (AP) — The first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York rung up its first sales on Thursday, opening up what is expected to be one of the country's most l...

NYT Slammed on Twitter Over Latest Hit Piece Targeting Special Needs Chassidim

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Below are just some of the many tweets from outspoken Jews and others, blasting the vicious New York Times over its latest hate-filled anti-Jewish article publ...

READ: Agudath Israel responds to Thursday’s NY Times Hit Piece

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Another week, another front-page attack on Orthodox Jews – this time targeting children with special needs and their families. The New York Times confirms, for the 13th time...

Buffalo Roads Reopen As Search For Storm Victims Continues

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Roads reopened Thursday in storm-besieged Buffalo as authorities continued searching for people who may have died or are stuck and suffering after last week's ...

National Guard Checks Homes In Buffalo For Storm Victims

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The National Guard went door to door in parts of Buffalo on Wednesday to check on people who had lost power during the area’s deadliest winter storm in decades...

WATCH: Hasidic Youth Trudges To Mikve Through Deep Snow In Buffalo, NY

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — 27 people have died in the snow blizzard which hit the city of Buffalo, NY, and the surrounding region of Erie county this week. This figure, which is unfortun...

Manhattan Man Charged In 2 Random Knife Slashing Murders

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NEW YORK (AP) — Two seemingly isolated and random outdoor murders at the height of the holiday season and of the kind New Yorkers have increasingly feared since the pandemic began ...

Military Police Enforce Driving Ban In Snow-Stricken Buffalo

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — State and military police were sent Tuesday to keep people off Buffalo’s snow-choked roads, and officials kept counting fatalities three days after western New...

Buffalo Faces More Snow After Deadliest Storm In Decades

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Storm-battered Buffalo braced Tuesday for fresh snow while still counting fatalities and striving to recover from the deadliest storm in western New York in at...

WATCH: Hikind Blasts Whoopi Goldberg over Antisemitic Comments Diminishing Holocaust

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Frum activist and former politician Dov Hikind issued a scathing and passionate rebuke against Whoopi Goldberg over her comments minimizing the Holocaust. ...