Mexico City, Mexico – World Renowned Orthodox Jewish Tycoon Killed In Helicopter Crash
Mexico City, Mexico - A Mexican business tycoon was killed along with his wife, also killed was his Son and his Wife in a helicopter crash on the outskirts of Mexico City on Sunday night, emergency o...
New York, NY – City Seeks National Effort to Curtail Salt Use
New York, NY - First New York City required restaurants to cut out trans fat. Then it made food chains post calorie counts on their menus. Now it wants to protect people from another health scourge: s...
Monsey, NY – Pedestrian Struck by Vehicle
Monsey, NY - A pedestrian was struck by a car at the corner of Monsey Boulevard and Sunrise Drive in front of Satmar shul in Monsey.
VIN News has learned that the 62-year-old man is in serious cond...
Pasewalk, Germany – Canadian Unveils Sculpture Meant to Heal WWII Wounds in Europe
Pasewalk, Germany - A Canadian artist has unveiled a poignant, globelike sculpture near the German-Polish border made with rubble and discarded weapons from the Second World War -- a creation aimed at...
Jerusalem – Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Shabbos Desecrators Worse Than Beasts
Jerusalem - Rabbi Ovadia Yosef verbally accosted those who desecrate the Sabbath during his weekly Saturday evening sermon. He claimed that those who do not keep Shabbat are "foolish people" who are "...
Jerusalem – Yiddishkeit Guru Strikes a Chord Among Israeli Musicians
Jerusalem - On one hand he refuses to be labeled “the rabbi of the celebrities,” but on the other hand he has guided dozens of well-known Israeli musicians and personalities as they drew closer to Yid...
Washington – Joe Lieberman, John McCain: Punish U.S. Officials Over Airline Plot
Washington - As the Obama administration begins to address the failings behind the Christmas Day airliner attack, two senators said Sunday the US needs to punish officials, correct security lapses and...
New York City – Metropolitan Museum of Art to withdraw Images of Muhammad
New York City - The Metropolitan Museum of Art quietly pulled images of the Prophet Mohammed from its Islamic collection and may not include them in a renovated exhibition area slated to open in 2011,...
Jerusalem – Israel to Build $1.5b Fence Along Egypt Border
Jerusalem- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ordered to construct a fence at a cost of $1.5 billion along two segments of Israel's border with Egypt, in an attempt to stem the infiltration o...
Albany, NY – Gov. Paterson Threatens to Raise Taxes on Cigarettes
Albany, NY - Gov. Paterson's no new taxes pledge may not extend to smokers.
As he prepares to unveil his 2009-10 budget proposal on Jan. 19, Paterson Sunday morning raised the possibility of again ...
Portugal – Small Portuguese Jewish Community Retained Its Genetic Identity
Portugal - A genetic analysis of northern Portuguese crypto-Jews recently yielded a mysterious discovery: It exposed an isolated Jewish community that has somehow retained its genetic identity for cen...
London – Investigation Into New Case of Former Nazi Living in Britain
London - A new case of a former Nazi concentration camp guard believed to be living in Britain is being investigated by the Israel office of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.
The Centre’s director, Dr E...
Tallahassee – Florida Battling Record Cold Temperatures
Tallahassee - Mark and Barbara Willard were at home in Wickford, England two weeks ago checking the weather forecast on the Internet before packing for their trip to Orlando — sunny and 70 degrees.
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Washington – Officials: Bush Sold Arab States Arms In Violation of Deal with Israel
Jerusalem - The Bush administration violated security related agreements with Israel in which the U.S. promised to preserve the IDF's qualitative edge over Arab armies, according to senior officials i...
Jerusalem – Finance Minister: We Don’t Need U.S. Loan Guarantees
Jerusalem - Israeli officials were up in arms Sunday after Washington's special envoy to the Mideast suggested the U.S. might impose sanctions on Israel and withhold loan guarantees to press it to mak...
Afghanistan – Are Taliban Descendants of Israelites?
Afghanistan - Are the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan descendants of an Israelite tribe that migrated across Asia after it was exiled over 2,700 years ago?
This intriguing question has been ask...
New York – Today’s Daf (Bava Basra 142a): Posthumously Born Children – Inheriting Parents
New York - In January of 2002, the New York Times quoted Sally Goldfarb, a professor of family law at Rutgers Law School in Camden, N.J. ''It used to be that a child born more than a year after a man'...
Miami, FL – Lawsuits Challenge Area’s Largest Private Land Sale
Miami, FL - Was the biggest private land sale in Volusia County history built on a fraud?
That's the claim in a pair of federal lawsuits that allege the 6,000 acres in Edgewater known now as the Re...
Union City, NJ – Gmach Trying to Recover $500,000 Seized By The FBI in Dwek Case
Union City, NJ - A charitable fund that surfaced in a massive federal money laundering and corruption sting, which led to the arrests of dozens of elected and religious officials and others last summe...
Florida – Cell Phones Could Protect Against Alzheimer’s Memory Loss
Florida - Cell phones might not be so bad after all.
Lab work on mice by scientists in Florida suggests that radiation emitted by cell phones could protect against Alzheimer's disease.
In a stud...