Dueling Town Halls For Trump, Biden After Debate Plan Nixed
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden will compete for TV audiences in dueling town halls instead of meeting face-to-face for their second debate as ori...
Senate Judiciary Sets Vote On Barrett, Dems Decry ‘Sham’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee set Oct. 22 for its vote to advance Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court on Thursday as Democrats threw pointed objections...
Father Of Bride At Wedding Disrupted By Police Is From Terror-Stricken Family
GIVAT ZEEV (VINnews) — Rabbi Uri Pollack, the father of the bride at the private wedding disrupted by police Wednesday night, is a well-known Talmid Chacham who studied previously ...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Apologizes For Company’s Attempt To Block Hunter Biden Report
CALIFORNIA (VINnews) — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey issued an apology on Wednesday evening for what has turned into a PR disaster for his company, after taking heat from an already susp...
Al Gross, Jewish Doctor Who Killed A Bear, Has Raised $9M In Alaska’s Tight Senate Race
ANCHORAGE (JTA) — Al Gross, the Jewish Alaska physician running to defeat incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, raised an eye-popping $9.1 million in the last quarter, funds fuel...
Trump’s Jewish Point Person Says President Has Fought Anti-Semitism ‘Everywhere And Anywhere’
WASHINGTON (JNS) - Boris Epshteyn, a strategic advisor for U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, has been the campaign’s point person for Jewish outreach for a while now, th...
Video: Police Brutally Break Up Givat Ze’ev Private Wedding, 2 Injured
GIVAT ZEEV (VINnews) — After MK Yitzchak Pindrus's attempt to establish a national enquiry into police brutality failed in the Knesset Wednesday and a previous attempt failed earli...
Why Did Rabbi Kanievski Bless the Ayalon Prison’s Staff?
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Chareidi prisoners in the religious section of the Ayalon jail have sent the names of the prison's commanding officer and its rabbis to Rabbi Chaim Kanievski ...
Cuomo Threatens To Pull Funding From Non-Compliant Yeshivas
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday issued a threat to Yeshivas in red-zone areas that fail to comply with the state’s shutdown orders. Any school that remains open...
Temple Mount Activist Eyes Israel’s Presidency
JERUSALEM (JNS) - This summer, when Israeli President Reuven “Rubi” Rivlin’s term as president comes to a close, the Knesset will convene to elect his successor. It appears likely ...
Cuomo Book On NY Pandemic Outbreak Short On State Missteps
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo condemned the federal government's coronavirus response and lauded his own leadership efforts in a new book released Tuesday that offers a few...
Barrett Bats Away Tough Democratic Confirmation Probing
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted away Democrats’ skeptical questions Tuesday on abortion, health care and a possible disputed-election fight over tr...
Mark Zuckerberg Donates $100M More To Help Election Offices
DENVER (AP) — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, on Tuesday donated an additional $100 million to helping local election offices prepare for November ev...
Georgia Democratic Senate Candidate Defends Anti-Semitic Pastor Jeremiah Wright
GEORGIA (JNS) — The top Democratic candidate in the special Senate election in Georgia defended anti-Semitic pastor Jeremiah Wright back in 2008.
Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of...
70% Of Jews Plan To Vote Biden, Pew Study Finds
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Jewish vote in the upcoming presidential election should be very close to the way it has been split since 2012, a new study by the Pew Research Center found....
Barrett Won’t Commit To Recusing From Election Disputes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is vowing to bring no "agenda” to the court, batting back senators' questions Tuesday on abortion, gun rights and the Nove...
Opinion: Harris at the Debate; the Iran Deal and More. She’s Wrong and Dangerous on Everything
Written by Julie Strauss Levin
The media wanted us to watch the vice president debate through some gender - race lens. Cliché and surface-level, but predictable given that they ...
Trump Holds 1st Rally Since Contracting Coronavirus
SANFORD, Florida (AP) — Just a week after his release from the hospital, President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Monday for the first time since contracting the coron...
Court: U.S. Can’t Target Reporters At Portland Protests
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In a split opinion, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has restored a court injunction that bans federal law enforcement from using force, threats or dispe...
Barrett Vows To Interpret Laws ‘As They Are Written’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett declared Monday that Americans “deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets our Constitution and laws as they are...