Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg’s 2020 campaign chief Kevin Sheekey defended the former New York City mayor’s decision to skip early nominating states after his late entry into the crowded primary field.
“Mike is getting in this race because he thinks that Donald Trump is an existential crisis and he thinks he’s on a path to victory and he’s getting in to alter that dynamic,” Sheekey said Monday in an interview with CNN.
“Right now Donald Trump is winning, he is winning that election. It’s very tough for people who don’t live in New York or California to understand that, but that is what’s happening,” Sheekey said.

(VINnews Editorial) – Walk into any given hospital, and you can ask that the doctor or Physician’s Assistant that would be seeing you – be of the same gender as you are.  A man can request a man.  A woman can request a woman.  It is a basic right. And it is a right that […]

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Legislation with bipartisan support that would restore the rights of Holocaust-era insurance beneficiaries to recover billions in unclaimed payments left behind after World War II has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Due to federal court rulings and a failure by insurance companies to adequately publish the names of recipients […]

Over a hundred Amazon workers and their supporters gathered outside Amazon’s Staten Island packing facility on Monday to protest working conditions that they say only worsen as the e-tailing giant gears up to deliver a rush of packages ahead of the holidays.
The workers, who gathered outside the warehouse around 5:30 p.m., carried signs, chanted slogans and demanded a manager emerge from the building to accept a petition signed by 600 people — and addressed to Amazon chief executive Bezos, tied for richest man in the world with Bill Gates.

Hakol Holech Achar Hag’mar…
Can you believe it? There are just 37 Blatt left till The Siyum? Yes, the end is near. BUT… this end is not like other endings. This ending is a beginning. When we say those amazing words – Hadran Alach Talmud Bavli – We will return to you Talmud Bavli at The Siyum we demonstrate how the ending of Shas is just another beginning of the next cycle of The Daf.
Klal Yisroel is gearing up for The Siyum. How? Not only are hundreds of thousands around the world participating in The Siyum itself, but they are also gearing up for the end by beginning – beginning to learn, beginning to set up Chaburos and Shiurim, beginning to divide up Shas again and so much more.
Are you ready for the end?

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is donating his third-quarter salary to help tackle the nation’s opioid epidemic. A White House official says Trump has given the $100,000 he would be paid in the quarter to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, which oversees federal public health offices and programs, including the surgeon […]

President Donald Trump has made his son-in-law Jared Kushner the de facto project manager for constructing his border wall, frustrated with a lack of progress over one of his top priorities as he heads into a tough reelection campaign, according to current and former administration officials.
Kushner convenes biweekly meetings in the West Wing, where he questions an array of government officials about progress on the wall, including updates on contractor data, precisely where it will be built and how funding is being spent. He also shares and explains the president’s demands with the group, according to the officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal White House deliberations.

LONDON (AP) — The archbishop of Canterbury has said an unusual electoral intervention by Britain’s chief rabbi should alert the country to the unease felt by many Jews. Justin Welby tweeted Tuesday after Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis wrote in The Times of London that Britain’s Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn have been deeply […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) – The head of an anti-miscegenation organization, was indicted on Tuesday on charges of incitement to terrorism, violence and racism. Rabbi Bentzi Gopstein of the Lehava organization was charged with a string of statements against Arabs throughout the past several years. The Jerusalem Post reports that among the comments for which Gopstein was […]