NEW YORK (VINnews/Ezra Friedlander) – We are living in difficult times. There’s been much consternation within our community, and rightfully so, about the apparent double standard currently being leveled at us. We endured the challenges of lockdowns and sheltering in place, but now as the restrictions are being lifted, our playgrounds, our schools and our […]

NEW YORK (AP) — As chants of “defund the police” thunder at protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, New York City’s police commissioner has found himself trying to avoid deep cuts to what has long been among the world’s best-funded law enforcement agencies. Over the last three months, the coronavirus crisis has dealt […]

BROOKLYN, NY (JTA) – In the space of just 48 hours, Orthodox lawmakers in New York have gone from calling on the city’s mayor to open playgrounds, to threatening to open the parks themselves, to actually cutting the chains off a Brooklyn playground. State Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein, City Councilman Kalman Yeger and State Sen. Simcha […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed legislation requiring all New York State Police officers to wear body cameras while on patrol (S.8493/A.8674); and creating the Law Enforcement Misconduct Investigative Office (S.3595-C/A.10002). “The relationship between law enforcement and the communities they serve isn’t working,” Governor Cuomo said. “New York is the progressive […]

ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – The horrific accident that claimed the life of two New Square residents has turned even more tragic, with a third victim passing away from injuries sustained during the head on crash. 20 year old Tziporah Deutsch, who sustained an open skull fracture in the collision, succumbed to her injuries […]

BROOKLYN, NY (JTA)- They protested the mayor’s decision to keep the parks closed on Sunday. By Monday, they vowed to cut the chains of the park gates themselves if Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t accede to their requests. In a tweet Monday evening, New York State Sen. Simcha Felder said he and two other Orthodox […]

NEW YORK (AP/VINnews) — New York City police determined there was no criminality by Shake Shack employees after three officers drank milkshakes believed to be contaminated with bleach. Police came to the determination after “a thorough investigation,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said in a tweet early Tuesday. The officers had been assigned to […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — An investigation is underway after 3 NYPD officers were poisoned on Monday evening. The officers ingested the poison through eating a meal they took while on duty at a protest in Lower Manhattan. According to a statement released by the NYPD PBA, the officers were assigned to deal with a protest […]

Rockland County, NY (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – Just hours after her husband and father succumbed to injuries sustained in a fatal collision, a New Square woman has given birth to a baby boy. As previously reported on VIN News (https://bit.ly/3d2oKRH), a van transporting the members of two New Square families to the city for a wedding […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — Leo Goldman was walking past the park Monday morning when he saw workers closing the two entrances to a playground in Williamsburg, a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Brooklyn. Not just closing, welding. In a WhatsApp message, Goldman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he tried to open the gate himself. “It […]