Do Look Down: Scaling One Of NYC’s Tallest Skyscrapers
NEW YORK (AP) — As I climbed the narrow metal steps on the edge of the skyscraper, the safety harness that kept me attached to the building — nearly 1,300 feet up — kept clicking, ...
US Holocaust Museum Says China Boosting Uyghur Repression
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing government repression against Uyghur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region.
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Stock Photo Library Featuring Photos of Orthodox Jewish Women Debuts
JERUSALEM (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - An organization dedicated to making Orthodox women’s voices heard has launched an online repository of stock photos featuring Jewish women and gir...
Storied General Electric To Split Into 3 Public Companies
NEW YORK (AP) - The storied American company General Electric will divide itself into three public companies focused on aviation, healthcare and energy.
The company, founded in ...
Max Cleland Dies; Senator And Veteran Lost Limbs In Vietnam
ATLANTA (AP) — Max Cleland, who lost three limbs to a Vietnam War hand grenade blast yet went on to serve as a U.S. senator from Georgia, died on Tuesday. He was 79.
Cleland die...
Lebanese Arab Imposter Who Married Jewish Girl Studied Cybersecurity In Israeli Technological College
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Lebanese imposter who married a Syrian Jewish girl from Brooklyn under false pretenses, apparently studied in a technological college in Israel, according...
SpaceX Returns 4 Astronauts To Earth, Ending 200-Day Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts returned to Earth on Monday, riding home with SpaceX to end a 200-day space station mission that began last spring.
Their capsule str...
US Reopens To International Travel, Allows Happy Reunions
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Parents held children born while they were stuck abroad. Long-separated couples kissed, and grandparents embraced grandchildren who had doubled in age.
The U.S....
Metallurgist Admits Faking Steel-Test Results For Navy Subs
SEATTLE (AP) — A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U...
Strict Vaccine Mandate Begins For Los Angeles Businesses
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Before feasting on pancakes, burgers and milkshakes inside the Fred 62 diner in Los Angeles, patrons must now fork over proof of their COVID-19 vaccines for a wa...
Texas Chabad Rabbi Releases Statement On Lebanese Man Who Faked Identity To Marry Jewish Girl
TEXAS (VINnews) — As previously reported by VINnews, a Lebanese man deceived a Jewish girl from Brooklyn and married her, after spending time with the Chabad and local Jewish commu...
Shocking: Lebanese Arab Masqueraded As Chareidi Jewish Man, Married Brooklyn Sephardic Girl
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A shocking story of deceipt and betrayal has rocked the Jewish community in the US.
A Lebanese person claiming to be a chareidi Jew named Eliyah Haliwa join...
7 Suspected Hackers Arrested In Global Ransomware Crackdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven suspected hackers linked to ransomware attacks that have targeted thousands of victims have been arrested since last February as part of a global cybercrime...
Satellite Images Show China Built Mock-Ups Of US Warships
BEIJING (AP) — Satellite images show China has built mock-ups of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer in its northwestern desert, possibly for practice for a future naval cla...
Teenage Girl Saved From Kidnapper After Passerby Recognized Tiktok Domestic Violence Hand Gesture
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A 16-year-old girl abducted from North Carolina was found in Kentucky on Thursday and the adult man she was with has been arrested and charged with unlawful im...
Oxford University Lambasted For Accepting Donation From Trust Of Nazi Sympathizer Oswald Mosley
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The venerated Oxford University is facing severe criticism after it received a £12 million grant from the fortune of fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. Jewish s...
Kamala Harris Condemns Singling Out Of Israel Spurred By ‘Anti-Jewish Hatred’
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Vice President Kamala Harris is set to denounce the singling out of Israel “because of anti-Jewish hatred” in a speech at the Anti-Defamation League’s annual Nev...
Report From Las Vegas: Some Jewish Republicans Have Trump Fatigue, But They Just Can’t Quit Him
LAS VEGAS (JTA) - The Republican Jewish Coalition conference was about 2022, and also 2024. It was about how a near Republican sweep in state and local races last week revealed a w...
Plenty Of Pitfalls Await Zuckerberg’s ‘Metaverse’ Plan
When Mark Zuckerberg announced ambitious plans to build the "metaverse” — a virtual reality construct intended to supplant the internet, merge virtual life with real life and creat...
MKs Call To Investigate Vicious Anti-Chareidi Tweet: ‘They Should Seal The Tent And Put In Gas’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A tweet by Israeli journalist Moshe Weissberg depicting the huge chasidic gathering in Boro Park this past weekend caused a furor in Israel after an Israeli tw...