What Jewish New Yorkers Need To Know About Kathy Hochul, Who Will Replace Cuomo As Governor
ALBANY (JTA) - Kathy Hochul, who will succeed Andrew Cuomo as governor of New York, is no stranger to the New York Jewish community.
Cuomo resigned Tuesday, a week after a state...
NY Gov Cuomo Says he Will Resign
NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations Tuesday in a fall from grace a year after he was widely hailed nationally for his detaile...
Big Win For $1T Infrastructure Bill: Senate Shows It Can Act
WASHINGTON (AP) — With a robust vote after weeks of fits and starts, the Senate approved a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan on Tuesday, a r are coalition of Democrats and...
LIVE: Cuomo Press Briefing
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is speaking Tuesday, less than an hour after his attorney held a news briefing that attempted to discredit the state attorney general's investigation...
British Muslim Policewoman Hailed For Policing Anti-Lockdown Protests Is Racist And Jihadist Sympathizer
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Muslim woman police officer in London's Metropolitan police force was once hailed as a hero but has now been revealed as a racist and terror sympathizer. 26-...
Jewish Funeral Planned For Dick Farrel, Prominent COVID Skeptic Who Died Of The Virus
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Florida shock radio host and former Newsmax anchor who died of COVID-19 after spending months telling his followers not to get the vaccine was a Jewish man fro...
Infrastructure On Track As Bipartisan Senate Coalition Grows
WASHINGTON (AP) — After weeks of fits, starts and delays, the Senate is on track to give final approval to the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan, with a growing coalition ...
Watch: South Lebanese Druze Attack Hezbollah Terrorists For Firing Rockets At Israel
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a display of opposition to Hezbollah efforts to ignite a conflict between Israel and Lebanon by firing rockets at Israel, local Druze residents attacked th...
Pentagon To Require Covid Vaccine For All Troops By Sept. 15
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will require members of the U.S. military to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. That deadlin...
Time’s Up Leader Roberta Kaplan Resigns Over Fallout From Work Advising Cuomo Administration On Harassment Allegations
NEW YORK (AP) — Time’s Up leader Roberta Kaplan resigned Monday over fallout from her work advising Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration when the first allegations of sexual harassme...
Cuomo’s Top Aide Resigns As Governor Faces Harassment Furor
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Melissa DeRosa, a fixture next to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for months during his coronavirus news conferences, resigned late Sunday on the heels of a report that found...
Watch: Three Filmmakers Who Visited Igbo Jews Recount Their 20-Day Ordeal In Nigeria
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The three Jewish members of the We Were Never Lost team which sought to document the life of little-known Jewish communities in Africa never imagined that they...
Rabbi Avrohom Dov Auerbach, Rabbi Of Tiberias, Passes Away At 86
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jewish world mourns the loss of Rabbi Avrohom Dovid Auerbach, the rabbi and head of the rabbinical court in Tiberias and the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Au...
Holocaust Survivor Whose Son Was Killed In 2014 Protective Edge Campaign Commits Suicide On Son’s Grave
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Holocaust survivor Moshe Etzion, the father of Ze'ev Etzion who was killed by rocket fire from Gaza during the 2014 Protective Edge campaign, took his own lif...
Cuomo Digs In, Shows No Sign Of Heeding Calls To Resign
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has dug in for the fight of his political life despite the threat of potential criminal investigations and widespread calls for his i...
After Three Days Of Harassment And Indignities, 18 Chareidi Girls Return To The US
NEW YORK (VINnews) — After over three days of exhausting travel and after suffering indignities and humiliation at the hands of two airline companies, the 18 chareidi girls who wer...
Census Experts Puzzled By High Rate Of Unanswered Questions
WASHINGTON (AP) - Census Bureau statisticians and outside experts are trying to unravel a mystery: Why were so many questions about households in the 2020 census left unanswered?
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Zuckerberg’s Cash Fuels GOP Suspicion And New Election Rules
DENVER (AP) — When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to help fund election offices as they scrambled to deal with the coronavirus pandemic late last summer, he ...
Israel PM: Lebanon Responsible For Attacks, Hezbollah Or Not
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's prime minister said Sunday he holds the Lebanese government responsible for rocket fire launched from its territory, whether the Hezbollah militant...
Israeli Gymnast Linoi Ashram Wins Gold Medal At Tokyo Olympics
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli gymnast Linoi Ashram won Israel's second gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics and only its third gold medal of all time. Ashram beat out fierce competitio...