JUDGE: Monsey Stabber will Not Stand Trial in Chanukah Attack
ROCKLAND (VINnews) — Grafton Thomas, the vicious antisemitic monster who allegedly attacked and stabbed multiple Jews, killing one of them, will not stand trial in the foreseeable ...
Biden To NYC Next Week To Discuss Gun Crime With Mayor Adams
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit New York City next week to discuss combating gun crime with Mayor Eric Adams, a meeting that will follow the recent fatal shooting ...
Judge Leaves New York Indoor Mask Mandate In Place, For Now
A New York appeals judge left the state’s indoor mask mandate in place Tuesday while Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration appeals a lower court’s decision to overturn it.
Judge Ro...
NY Schools Told To Keep Masks After Judge Overturns Mandate
New York state education officials told school administrators to continue enforcing the state's mask mandate for students and teachers Tuesday despite a judge's ruling overturning ...
Second NYPD Police Officer Ambushed in Harlem Dies From Injuries
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer gravely wounded last week in a Harlem shooting that killed his partner has also died of his injuries, police said Tuesday.
Officer...
New NYC Mayor, An Ex-Cop, Unveils Plan To Stem Gun Violence
NEW YORK (AP) — After an unnerving rash of violence in his first three weeks in office, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the city would step up efforts to seize illegal gun...
Official: Man Suspected Of Killing NYPD Officer Has Died
NEW YORK (AP) — The man who shot two New York City police officers in a Harlem apartment, killing one of them and putting another in critical condition, died Monday of injuries sus...
Former NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver passes away at 77
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful figures in state government for two decades before his conviction on corruption charge...
Sarah Palin’s Defamation Suit Against NY Times Set For Trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Well over a decade after she emerged on the national stage as a Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin is on the verge of making new headlines in a legal...
Chasidic Man Hit in Anti-Semitic Attack in Crown Heights
BROOKLYN (VINnews) - The NYPD hate crime unit, is looking for a suspect that randomly slugged a Chasidic man in Crown Heights over the weekend.
The 21-year-old victim was walkin...
Adams’ New York: Brave Frum Brooklyn Woman Chases Away Package Thieves (VIDEO)
CROWN HEIGHTS (VINnews) — A brave homeowner chased two large burglars from her porch and forced them to return her packages, after she busted them in the act.
Recently there has...
Hikind: Antisemitism is ‘Emanating from the Minority Community’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Politician Dov Hikind, founder of “Americans Against Antisemitism”, says that the rate of antimsemitic attacks in the U.S. is the worst it have ever been, and ...
HaGaon HaRav Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Margulies ob”m Passes Away
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
HaGaon HaRav Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Margulies of blessed memory, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Temimah in Brooklyn for over sixty years, pa...
Kalman Yeger Introduces Bill to End COVID Fines
NEW YORK CITY (VINnews) — Brooklyn Councilman Kalman Yeger wants to reverse fines and summonses which have been issued for Covid violations.
Mr. Yeger introduced a bill on Thurs...
Young Officer Slain In Harlem Joined To Help ‘Chaotic City’
NEW YORK (AP) — The 22-year-old New York City police officer who was shot to death while responding to a call in a Harlem apartment came from an immigrant family and grew up in a c...
1 NYPD Officer Killed, 1 Severely Injured In Harlem Shooting
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer was killed and another critically wounded Friday night while answering a call about an argument between a woman and her adult son, of...
Booster Shots Needed Against Omicron, CDC Studies Show
NEW YORK (AP) — Three studies released Friday offered more evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are standing up to the omicron variant, at least among people who received booster shots....
BREAKING: Antisemite Arrested for Harassing and Spitting on Orthodox Kids
BROOKLYN (VINnews) — A woman has been arrested after allegedly harassing young orthodox children and making extremely vicious antisemitic comments.
Christina Darling of Brooklyn...
NYC’s Mayor Invests First Paycheck In Cryptocurrency
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's new mayor, Eric Adams, plans to convert his first paycheck this week into two cryptocurrencies, which he has been hyping as a potential economic eng...
Post-Fire, Jewish Community Keeps Flow Of Aid, Supplies, Support To Those In Bronx
More than a week after a fire in the Bronx, N.Y., killed 17 people, including eight children, the Jewish community is continuing to provide aid to the families of those who lo...