Saturday, May 4, 2024

Politics

Biden’s Trip Produced Mixed Bag Of Results For Israel, Experts Say

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WASHINGTON (JNS) - U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and the Middle East accomplished most of the administration’s goals, but from Israel’s point of view the results were ...

British Military Chief: ‘Russia Has Strategically Lost Its War In Ukraine’

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LONDON (VINnews) — UK's Chief of Defense Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin claimed that Russia has already “strategically lost” its war in Ukraine and is now a “more diminished power”...

BDE: World Mizrachi President Kurt (Gershon) Rothschild Passes Away At Age 101

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The religious Zionist world as well as many other Torah institutions mourn the passing of Mr. Kurt Rothschild, a philanthropist, businessman and Mizrachi acti...

Pendant With Image Of Netanyahu Causes Uproar: ‘Idol Worship’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Likud party activist Heidi Moses (daughter of former UTJ MK Menahem Eliezer Moses) caused an uproar Sunday when she took a pendant carrying a portrait of Biny...

Saudi Foreign Minister Denies Reports Of Gulf-Israeli Defense Alliance Talks

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JERUSALEM (JNS) - Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister denied on Saturday previous reports that his country has been involved in discussions on setting up a Gulf-Israeli defense allianc...

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy Fires Top Security Chief And Prosecutor

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VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — As Russia's military pressed its efforts to expand into Ukraine's east, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the head of the country’s security s...

‘I Thought He Was Going To Kill Me’: Woman Describes Attack By Biden Secret Service Agent

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Although nearly a week has passed since the attack by a US secret service agent from Biden's entourage on a young Jerusalemite woman, it is hard for her to re...

YIFA SEGAL: The sweet victory against Ben & Jerry’s deters other boycotts

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ISRAEL (Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security) — Ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry’s announcement of its intention to boycott Israel by not allowing its products to be...

Ivana Trump’s Death Ruled An Accident, NYC Examiner Says

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NEW YORK (AP) — Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother to his eldest children, died accidentally from blunt impact injuries to her torso, the New Y...

Biden Tweet About Israel Trip Mysteriously Deleted

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MIDDLE EAST (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Following President Biden's trip to Israel this week, his official @POTUS Twitter account posted a tweet, affirming his support for Israel's secu...

Saudi Arabia Downplays Normalization With Israel

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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat on Saturday downplayed talk of normalization with Israel after the kingdom opened its airspace to Israeli commercial flights and ...

Orthodox Gun Club Founder on Mission to Help Protect Jewish Homes and Businesses

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ROCKLAND (Yaakov M / VINnews) One Orthodox Jewish gun-rights advocate is helping businesses protect themselves, while advocating for (safe) gun ownership in the frum community. ...

NJ Murphy Takes Over Governors Association Amid Tensions, Feuds

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey took over as the leader of the nation's nonpartisan governors' association on Friday in a time of deep divide betwe...

WATCH: Biden Pledges to Send COVID-19 to Palestinians

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WEST BANK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Although President Biden claims that he's a friend of the Palestinians, he may be secretly trying to infect them with a pandemic. In this vi...

Putin Reshuffles Top Officials

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday reshuffled his top officials, naming a new head of the state space corporation and giving new broad powers to one of his to...

Watchdog Says Secret Service Deleted Jan. 6 Text Messages

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol even after an inspector general requested them a...

In West Bank, Biden Embraces ‘Two States For Two Peoples’

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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — President Joe Biden, visiting the West Bank on Friday, restated his continued support for “two states for two peoples” but acknowledged that the “ground...

Governor: Uvalde Video ‘Shocking’ Account Of Police Response

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday again said he was initially misled about the police response to the Uvalde school massacre, calling newly leaked video of of...

Ivanka Trump Suffers Loss of Mother

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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Sadly, it was reported today that Ivana Trump, who is the mother of former President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump was found “unconsci...

In Jerusalem, A Torah Lesson From Biden Shows His Grasp Of Judaism’s Quirky Calendar

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JERUSALEM (JTA) - Throughout President Joe Biden’s visit to Jerusalem this week, he has underscored the ways that he believes the United States and Israel are aligned. But in his r...