Saturday, April 27, 2024

Politics

FILE - Brooklyn assemblyman Dov Hikind in 2012. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

Hikind Slams Hochul For Taking Photos With Antisemite Donor (VIDEO)

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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Orthodox activist Dov Hikind, founder of “Americans Against Antisemitism”, blasted NY Governor Kathy Hochul’s hyprocisy on Twitter, after she cozied...

Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas Trump For Testimony On Capitol Attack

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee voted unanimously Thursday to subpoena Donald Trump, demanding the former president's personal testimony as it unveiled startling new v...

High Court Rejects Trump Plea To Step Into Mar-a-lago Case

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump’s plea to step into the legal fight over the FBI search of his Florida estate. The justice...

Abbas Says He Does Not Trust America But Is Pleased With Russia

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KAZAKHSTAN (JNS) - In a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his distrust of Washington in resolving the...

Lebanon’s President Approves Historic Israel Sea Border Deal

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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's President Michel Aoun said Thursday that the cash-strapped country has approved a U.S.-mediated maritime border deal with Israel. Lebanon and Israel both...

White House Aims To Speed-Up Pace Of Building Infrastructure

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House hosted a summit Thursday to help speed up construction projects tied to the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure law — an effort to improve coordina...

Holocaust Survivor Opens Senate As Far-Right To Govern Italy

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ROME (AP) — Italy’s Fascist past and its future governed by a party with neo-fascist roots came to an emotional head Thursday when a Holocaust survivor presided over the first seat...

KOSHER POLITICS PODCAST: Risk of ‘Nuclear Armageddon’ Highest Since Cuban Missile Crisis (But don’t panic)

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In his latest podcast, Yaakov M discusses whether the U.S. is on the brink of a nuclear attack. Three alarming developments happened this week, indicating that the Biden adm...

New York’s Gun Law Gets Reprieve From Federal Appeals Court

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed New York to continue enforcing its new gun law as it considers a lower court ruling that would block key provisions. ...

Treasury Probing Florida Gov. DeSantis’ Migrant Flights

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department's internal watchdog is investigating whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis improperly used federal pandemic aid to fly migrants to Martha’s Vi...

North Korea Says Kim Supervised Cruise Missile Tests

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised tests of long-range cruise missiles, which he described as a successful demonstration of his military’s expandi...

IT GETS WORSE: Kanye Professed His ‘Love’ for Hitler and Nazis

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CALIFORNIA (VINnews) — For rapper Kanye West, things keep going from bad to worse. After a slew of antisemitic comments surfaced in recent days, a journalist has come forward to sa...

Los Angeles Council Member Recorded Making Racist Comments Also Discussed Jews Disparagingly

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LOS ANGELES (JTA) - The woman who resigned Sunday as president of Los Angeles’ city council after an audio clip leaked revealing racist comments she made about Black and Indigenous...

Florida Needs $33 Billion For Ian Recovery, Rubio Says

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Floridians will need about $33 billion in emergency aid from the federal government as the state recovers from the devastation left by Hurricane Ian, the state's ...
An Orthodox Jewish woman walks by a Yeshiva school bus on the day New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency in response to a measles outbreak, in the Orthodox Jewish community of the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, U.S., April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

State Official Orders City To Enforce Secular Education At Brooklyn Yeshiva

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BROOKLYN (JTA) — New York State’s commissioner of education has ordered the city to work with a yeshiva in Williamsburg on a plan for improving its secular education. The decisi...

DISGRACE: AOC Condemns “Antisemitic” Kanye West for Harming Her ‘Jewish Brothers’

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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a BDS supporter, has spoken out against rapper Kanye West over his recent antisemitic comments. ...

WATCH: New Footage of Kanye West’s Shocking Antisemitic Rants on Tucker Carlson – Previously Unaired

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(VINnews) — Shocking new footage has been released of rapper Kanye West making antisemitic comments during a Fox News interview. The previously unaired clips, which were edi...

Israeli Security Cabinet OKs Lebanon Maritime Border Deal

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Security Cabinet on Wednesday voted in favor of the U.S.-brokered maritime border deal with Lebanon, the first of several procedural hurdles before the ag...

President Herzog Angers Chief Rabbis, Visits Conservative Sukka Before Visiting Them

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — President Isaac Herzog aroused a storm of criticism after announcing that he had visited the sukkas of the chief rabbis "as well as the conservative sukka in ...

Biden Reevaluating US-Saudi Relationship Amid Democrat Anger

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is reevaluating America's relationship with Saudi Arabia as the Riyadh-led OPEC+ alliance moves to cut oil production and Democratic lawmakers...