TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Officials from states with strong gun restrictions have called for stricter firearm control in places with weaker laws to thwart traffickers, but the fatal attack on a Jewish market in New Jersey shows how fruitless those efforts can be. Three civilians and a police officer were gunned down Tuesday by two […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top House Republicans have been told that Democratic New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew is going to switch parties and become a Republican. That’s according to a GOP official familiar with the conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity on Saturday to describe confidential information. Van Drew is a freshman who has […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Video from cameras worn by New York City police officers involved in a fatal friendly fire shooting shows a chaotic nighttime scene as officers struggled with an armed man on the grounds of a Bronx housing project before shots rang out. The video footage released by the New York Police Department […]

Senior Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar on Saturday night called on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to debate him.
On the “Mahadurat Hashabbat” show, Sa’ar said, “I call on Netanyahu to hold a debate – like they do in the US.”
“I think that Likud members deserve to hear content as well – what each of us is offering regarding Gaza, the health and social reforms. I think that this is appropriate, just like this happens in the entire Western world. I’ll accommodate Netanyahu’s schedule.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Airbnb has removed over 60 accounts belonging to individuals identified as neo-Nazis, the Daily Mail reported.
The neo-Nazis were indentified during a data dump of the online neo-Nazi group “Iron March.”
In a statement to the Daily Mail, Airbnb said banning Iron March members was “a no-brainer” because “anyone sympathetic to neo-Nazi ideology and violent extremism has absolutely no place.”
“When we see people on our platform pursuing behavior antithetical to our Community Commitment, we take action to prioritize the safety of our community,” the spokesperson added. “Through our trust and safety systems, we are continuously seeking to proactively identify those who could put our hosts and guests at risk.”

Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said on Friday that despite the results of Thursday election, challenges in combating bigotry and hatred in the United Kingdom continue.
“The elections may be over, but concerns about the resurgence of anti-Semitism remain,” Mirvis said in a statement.
“Islamophobia, racism and other forms of prejudice continue to afflict our communities and, as has been well publicized, even our political parties,” he said.
“It is vital that we now bring the country together, ensuring that the voices of people from across our society are heard and respected. We must focus on our shared values and leave all hatred and prejudice far behind us,” Mirvis added.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy ordered flags across the state to be flown at half-mast for a full week beginning on Friday, Dec. 13, in “recognition and mourning of the passing of the victims in Jersey City.”
Jersey City Police Det. Joseph Seals was killed in the line of duty on Dec. 10 at the start of an afternoon of terror in the city.
His two attackers then drove to the JC Kosher Supermarket in the Greenville section of the city. There, they killed two Chassidic Jews—store owner Leah Mindel Ferencz, 33, and customer Moshe Deutsch, 24—and Miguel Rodriguez, 49, a store employee who is being remembered as a hero for helping a customer escape out the back when the attack began.

The enormous door at the entrance to the main synagogue in the central German city of Halle that withstood the neo-Nazi gunman who attempted to massacre worshipers on Yom Kippur this year is to be turned into a symbolic art object, the head of the Jewish community announced on Friday.
More than 50 people were attending services on Oct. 9 to mark Judaism’s holiest day when the gunman — Stephan Balliet — tried to break into the building, in an attack that was livestreamed on the internet.
Foiled by the heavy security door to the synagogue, Balliet subsequently murdered a 40-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man who were in the vicinity of the building.

LONDON (VINnews) — Former mayor of London and Labor Party member Ken Livingstone, said Friday that Boris Johnson’s predicted landslide victory spells “the end” for Jeremy Corbyn, but also blamed Corbyn’s  loss on the “Jewish vote”. Livingstone, who has claimed in the past that the evidence of anti-Semitism in the party is “lies and smears,” […]

JERSEY CITY, NJ (VINnews) – Detective Joseph Seals, the first victim in Jersey City’s mass shooting Tuesday, was meeting a confidential informant at Bayview Cemetery, right before he encountered a stolen U-Haul van. PIX-11 TV News, reports, that investigators have solved the mystery of why Seals, 39, was in the cemetery that day. They’ve learned […]