Jerusalem, Israel +Serious Injuries to Fall Victim+
Jerusalem, Israel +Serious Injuries to Fall Victim+ Hatzolah Yisroel rushed to the scene at Rechov Even Ha'ezel 16 responding to a 17-year-old teenager who fell from the 4th floor balcony of that...
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY – AG Designate Mukasey Stood Up For Convicted Businessman.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY - In a previously unreported episode, U.S. Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey praised the "remarkable character" of notorious Brooklyn businessman Nat Schlesinger after...
New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg Did Not Fulfil His Promise To Reform The NYC Marshals.
New York, NY - Supermanager Mike Bloomberg has tackled public schools, cleared the smoke out of bars and nudged crime down to historic lows.
But there's one bunch that's been a lot tougher to reform...
Israel – 5 Haredi Youths Beat Woman Who Refused to Move to Back of Bus
Israel - Five assailants believed to be Orthodox Jews assaulted a woman and an Israeli soldier today for sitting next to each other on Egged bus #497 bound for Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem.
The incid...
New York, NY – Ch. 11 TV Full Of Hate.
New York, NY - On Oct. 10, Ch. 11's local newscast included two stories about suspected hate crimes, two disturbing stories, yet stories presented in two very different ways.
The first led the broad...
New York, NY – Hate Crimes Against Jews Soared 15%
New York, NY - The number of bias crimes against Jews in New York City soared 15 percent this year, with some blaming the spike on last month's visit from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
...
Brooklyn, NY +Boat Accident/Water Search & Rescue+
Brooklyn, NY - NYPD Harbor and Aviation, FDNY and Marine Units are all on the scene about 2-3 miles south of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge by the Ambrose Channel for for a tug boat that couldn't s...
Brooklyn, NY – Congressman Secures Homeland Security Funds for Yeshivas, Hospitals
Brooklyn, NY - Congressman Anthony Weiner helped 12 Brooklyn non-profit and religious institutions get federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grants.
Among the "high-risk" non-profit...
Val Morin, QC, Canada – Court to Rule on Chassidic Building
Val Morin, QC, Canada - The Quebec Court of Appeal is expected to rule in the next few months on whether a house used by a Jewish chassidic group for prayer violates municipal zoning bylaws.
The buil...
Borough Park, Brooklyn NY – War Of The Roses Couple, Hires Gotti Lawer.
Borough Park, Brooklyn NY - The Brooklyn "War of the Roses" wife who has lived for more than a year with a court-ordered wall dividing the home she's forced to share with her estranged husband isn't g...
Brooklyn, NY +MVA with Pin+
Brooklyn, NY +MVA with Pin+ A motor vehicle accident with aided pinned at Prospect Expressway and 4th Avenue NYPD of the 72nd Pct requesting ESU to respond for the confirmed pin and Hatzolah on the sc...
Mamaroneck, NY – A Court Decision Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights
Mamaroneck, NY - The federal appeals court ruled last week that the village of Mamaroneck had improperly denied an application by the Westchester Day School, an Orthodox Jewish school, for a new $12 ...
Israel – Mossad Agent Worked Inside Bombed Syrian Plant
Israel - Israeli officials were convinced that the target of the September 6 raid in Syria was a nuclear facility because they received detailed photographs of the site from a mole that photographed ...
Tehran, Iran – General: Iran Will Fire 11,000 Rockets and Bullets If Attacked.
Tehran, Iran - - An Iranian general on Saturday claimed that if the country was attacked, the armed forces would fire "11,000 rockets and bullets in the first minute" at enemy bases, General Mahmoud ...
India – NYC Garbage Raises Stink in Kerala
India - Kerala state has ordered containers of illegal rubbish shipped in from New York to be sent back.
The containers were supposed to hold only "raw materials" meaning waste paper unde...
Toronto, Canada – Autopsy for 5-Year-Old Yeshivah Student A Matter of Faith
Toronto, Canada - When five-year-old Meier Greenberg unexpectedly collapsed and died in front of his north-end Toronto school last Friday afternoon, as was reported here on Vin News, his teachers rush...
Ukraine – Ukraine’s President To Discuss Recent Spike in Anti-Semitic Attacks.
Ukraine - Ukraine's president will meet Jewish leaders Monday to discuss Ukraine’s recent spike in anti-Semitic attacks.
The meeting, set for the president's office in Kiev, comes on the heels of wid...
New York, NY – +US Stocks Take A Steep Plunge+
New York, NY - Stocks tanked sharply Friday after Wachovia became the latest financial services firm to reveal the impact of the summer's credit and mortgage market crisis on its profits.
Earnings f...
Brooklyn, NY +False DEP Inspectors Arrested+
Brooklyn, NY +False DEP Inspectors Arrested+ NYPD of the 62nd Pct with help of Boro Park Shomrim Patrol (BSSP) have placed under arrest at 84th Street and Bay Parkway 5 perps two females and three mal...
Brooklyn, NY +Serious MVA+
Brooklyn, NY +Serious MVA+ A serious motor vehicle accident with aided pinned at East 35th Street and Avenue "P". Fire Department on the scene Hatzolah requesting Medics to respond NYPD ESU ...