Saturday, May 18, 2024

NY

New York City Man Pleads Guilty To Assaulting Jews

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An organization that documents people and groups that promote hatred of Israel and Jews helped identify a suspect recently convicted of hate crimes. Last week, Saadah Masoud ple...

KOSHER POLITICS: Elon Musk finds Woke T-shirts at Twitter. CNN Blasts Biden cozying with Saudi dictator.

CLICK BELOW TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: In this exciting episode, Yaakov M discusses: Elon Musk discovered a closet filled with hundreds of "stay woke" t-shirts at Twitter he...

Police: 2 Young Children Stabbed To Death In Bronx Apartment

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NEW YORK (AP) — Two small children died of stab wounds after their mother was taken into custody for observation Saturday night in New York City, police said. A 3-year-old boy a...
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman

DAVID FRIEDMAN TO TRUMP: ‘Throw those bums out’

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a scathing tweet, David Friedman, President Trump’s ambassador to Israel and an orthodox Jew, condemned Trump over his meeting with antisemites Kanye West a...

Who Are the Black Hebrew Israelites?

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(American Jewish Committee / VINnews) — Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving apologized Sunday before returning to the Barclays Center after an eight-game suspension for promoting a fil...

NYPD: No Known Threats To Macy’s Parade, But Tight Security

NEW YORK (AP) — New York is planning tight security around the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the wake of mass shootings elsewhere in the U.S., police said Wednesday, while stre...

Following Threat Against Jewish Community, Gov. Hochul Signs Bills To Help Prevent Hate Crimes

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NEW YORK (JTA) - Days after two men were arrested at Penn Station and charged with planning an attack on a synagogue, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation meant to combat hate and ...

NY Gov Signs Novel Law That Limits Cryptomining, For Now

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is taking a first-in-the-nation step to tap the brakes on the spread of cryptocurrency mining, under legislation that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Tuesday....

Famous Jewish Couple Who Perished Aboard The Titanic Featured In New York Exhibit

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NEW YORK (JNS) - “Where you go, I go,” Ida Straus told her husband, Isidor, aboard the RMS Titanic in April 1912. With lifeboats available for women and children first, men had to ...

As Kyrie Irving Offers ‘Deep Apologies’ And Returns To Nets, Black Hebrew Israelites Rally In Brooklyn

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BROOKLYN (JTA) - Kyrie Irving returned Sunday from an eight-game suspension after again apologizing for promoting an antisemitic film on Twitter. “I just want to offer my deep a...

New York Issues First Licenses For Legal Pot Dispensaries

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York issued its first 36 cannabis dispensary licenses on Monday, taking a monumental step in establishing a legal — and lucrative — marketplace for recreational...

Chabad Rabbis Pay Tribute To One Of New York’s Finest, Deputy Chief Charles M. Scholl

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BROOKLYN (CHABAD.org/By Yaakov Ort) - Thousands of rabbis paid tribute Sunday to one of New York’s finest, the late Deputy Chief Charles M. Scholl, chief of patrol of Brooklyn Sout...

City to Auction Gifts Given to Previous New York City Mayors

NEW YORK – NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) Commissioner Dawn M. Pinnock and NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) Commissioner Paulin...

Biden Sending Federal Aid As NY Digs Out From Huge Snowstorm

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — President Joe Biden is sending federal aid to western New York to help state and local authorities clean up from the massive storm that dumped as much as 6 fee...

Thousands Of Chabad Emissaries Gather For Group Photo At 770

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BROOKLYN, NY (Chabad.org) — The bleachers are towered up in front of the iconic facade of 770 Eastern Parkway, home to Chabad-Lubavitch’s World Headquarters, for the 39th annual In...

WATCH: Kyrie Irving Apologizes for Sharing Antisemitic Post, Says He is Not Anti-Jewish

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Brooklyn Nets player Kyrie Irving conducted an interview on the SNY channel, in which he apologized for sharing antisemitic material on social media, and o...

Massive Snowfall Buries Cars, Keeps Falling In Western NY

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Piles of snow, in some places taller than most people, buried parts of western and northern New York as a lake-effect storm pounded areas east of Lake Erie and...

KOSHER POLITICS: Trump running in 2024. Iran executes protesters. Schumer wants to replace shrinking population with 11M illegals

In this exciting episode, Yaakov M discusses: The 2024 election season has officially begun. This week President Trump announced his candidacy, although some say his speech ...

NYPD Commissioner: Threat Against Jewish Community Averted in NYC

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NEW YORK (VInnews) - The NYPD and FBI have two people in custody after uncovering a threat to the Jewish community. An attentive MTA officer tracked down a man at Penn Station t...