New York City – Super Star Lipa Interviewed By Magazine Jewish Insights
New York City - This months Jewish Insights magazine unveils the cover to Lipa Schmeltzers NEW album entitled "A Poshiter Yid".
The album is slated to hit stores in the next week or two. It will b...
Washington – Obama’s Flipflop In Full Swing, Clarifies United J’lem Comment
Washington - Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama did not rule out Palestinian sovereignty over parts of Jerusalem when he called for Israel's capital to remain "undivided," his ca...
Los Angeles, CA – LAPD Offering Reward, Seeking Men Who Vandalized Synagogue
Los Angeles, CA - Police are offering a $20,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of two men who were seen on surveillance video spraying graffiti on a synagogue.
In No...
New York – In Stark Contrast To Other Gedolim, Rav Heinemann: Permissible To Engage Sabbath Mode Ovens
New York - the Kosher organization star K has issued the following statement
Rav Heinemann, shlita, stands by his Psak that it is permissible to raise and lower temperatures on YomTov on ovens equ...
New York City – Clinton Supporters Miffed By Drop-Out Announcement To Take Place ‘Shabbos’
New York City - The vast majority of Hillary Rodham Clinton's congressional supporters in New York will be skipping her Saturday drop-out announcement in Washington – citing reasons ranging from town ...
Kiryas Joel, NY – Poll Workers Say Jeering Crowd Egged Them
Kiryas Joel, NY - Poll workers recruited by Woodbury activist Jonathan Swiller to monitor voting in Kiryas Joel yesterday say an enormous crowd of jeering boys pelted them with eggs as they left the p...
Sacramento, CA – Court Drama As 6 Year Old Sobs As Man Who Killed Her Pregnant Mother Gets 12 Years Prison.VIDEO
Sacramento, CA - A man who killed a 33-year-old pregnant mother of two on Passover last year while driving drunk was sentenced to 12 years and eight months in prison.
The women and their families h...
Crown Heights, NY – DA Hynes Announces Indictments in Crown Heights Robbery and Assault
Crown Heights, NY - Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the indictments of Namor Clarke, 17, and Basean Parker, 15, in connection with a robbery and assault in Crown Height...
Israel – ‘Vaad Hatznius’ Suspected Of Spilling Acid On Teenage Girl
Israel - A 14-year-old girl from Beitar Illite was taken to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem after an unknown person spilled acid on her face, legs and stomach, causing light burn wounds.
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Boston, MA – Cell Phone Study Raises Privacy Issues
Boston, MA - A new cell phone tracking study is raising questions about privacy and ethics.
Northeastern University researchers say they secretly tracked 100,000 people outside the U.S., using cel...
Miami, FL – Greece, Israel, Cyprus To Share Transplant organs
Miami, FL - Greece, Israel and Cyprus plan to share transplant organs because of their small populations and low donation rates.
Health officials from the three Mediterranean nations were in Miami ...
Israel – Bar-Ilan University To Offer 1000’s Of Seforim To Read Online
Israel - Thousands of Jewish religious and other texts in Hebrew will be made available online for the first time by Bar-Ilan University, as part of an initiative sponsored by President Shimon Peres.
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Sao Paulo, Brazil – Police: Monster Elior Chen Was A Most Wanted In Brazil, Due To His Barbatic Acts
Sao Paulo, Brazil - Interpol suspects that the Jewish community in Sao Paulo hid an an ultra-Orthodox rabbi suspected of seriously abusing Jerusalem children, one of whom is in a vegetative state.
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Adelaide, Australia – Rabbi Engel to Face 17 Counts
Adelaide, Australia - Adelaide's Rabbi Yossi Engel has been reported on nine counts of false pretences and eight counts of deception in relation to funding applications made by a South Australian Jewi...
Brooklyn, NY – NYPD Deputy Chief Michael Marino in Steroids Sting
Brooklyn, NY - An NYPD deputy chief was hit with internal charges for allegedly buying human growth hormone ata Brooklyn pharmacy raided in a steroid sting last year.
Deputy Chief Michael Marino's ...
Israel – Gaza Rocket Kills One at Kibbutz
Israel - Emergency services in Israel are reporting that a rocket fired from Gaza shortly before noone has killed a 51-year-old Jewish father of three, and injured two others.
The rocket struck a fac...
Brooklyn, NY – BQE Traffic Alert Due to Overturned Tractor Trailer
Brooklyn, NY - The Brooklyn Queens Expressway is shut down at Tillary Street due to an 18 wheeler tractor trailer that overturned on the expressway with debris on the roadway, no one pinned and no one...
Williamsburg, NY – Satmar Community Leaders At Private VIP Meeting With Sen. Barack Obama
New York City - VIN News has learned that three Chasidic Satmar community leaders were in attendance this evening at a private, exclusive VIP event for newly-minted Democratic presidential nominee Se...
Northfield, NJ – Synagogue Struck By Lightning
Northfield, NJ - An Atlantic County synagogue suffered minor damage after being struck by lightning tonight.
The bolt struck the Beth Israel Synagogue in the 2500 block of Shore Road in Northfield,...
Kiryas Joel, NY – Incumbent KJ Board Members Hold On To Their Seat.
Kiryas Joel, NY - Voters where streaming all day into an ornate banquet hall on Forest Road to cast ballots in the latest challenge to one-party rule in this sharply divided Hasidic community.
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