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...
Israel Announces Mike Herzog As New Ambassador To US , Right-Wing MKs Protest Appointment
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced Friday that retired Brig. Gen. Michael Herzog will serve as Israel’s next ambassador to the US. Herzog, the older bro...
Rare 15th Century Hebrew Selichos Revealed In Israel’s National Library
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As Elul begins Monday and some communities prepare to say Selichos for the entire month, the Israeli National Library revealed a rare copy of Selichos which i...
Hochul Moves Into Spotlight As Scandal Roils Cuomo’s Reign
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As New York's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration, visiting the far-flung coffee shops and...
Albany Sheriff: Cuomo Could Face Misdemeanor In Groping Case
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo could face misdemeanor charges if investigators substantiate a criminal complaint accusing the governor of groping an aide last year,...
Sheriff: Aide Who Accused Cuomo Files Criminal Complaint
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A woman who accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping her breast at the governor's state residence filed a criminal complaint against him, the Albany County Sheriff'...
18 Chareidi Girls Detained In Schiphol Airport Will Spend Shabbos in Antwerp
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 18 chareidi girls returning to the US from the Ukraine were detained at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport and claimed to have suffered antisemitic mistreatment for...
Anti-Vaxxer Solicitor Dies Of COVID-19 9 Days After Posting That It Is “Nothing To Be Afraid Of”
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A British anti-vax solicitor with no underlying health conditions died of coronavirus just days after insisting it is "nothing to be afraid of" and hoping that...
Explainer: How Cuomo Might Be Impeached, Removed From Office
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, buffeted by sexual harassment allegations, is increasingly looking like he could be impeached and removed from office — something th...