NEW YORK (JTA) — Two volleyball players from Brooklyn College took a knee during the playing of “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem, before a match at Yeshiva University. The controversial protest gesture by Omar Rezika and Hunnan Butt was captured on video and posted on social media. During today's Yeshiva U. vs. Brooklyn College basketball game, […]

NEW YORK (AP) The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped more than 1,000 points Monday in the worst day for the stock market in two years as investors worry that the spread of a viral outbreak that began in China will weaken global economic growth. Traders sought safety in U.S. government bonds, gold and high-dividend stocks […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday at his sexual assault trial, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement. He was found guilty of criminal sex act for assaulting production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006 and third-degree rape of a woman in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening lower again on Wall Street, putting the market on track for a weekly loss after two weeks of gains. Overseas markets were also weaker Friday after a rise in virus cases in South Korea and other countries revived anxiety about the outbreak. Cabot Oil & Gas sank after […]

BEAR MOUNTAIN (VINnews) — In today’s day and age, as technology gets more and more sophisticated, the situations in which we find ourselves at a technological disadvantage are becoming increasingly rare. That’s why the communities in Rockland and Orange Counties have been trying to figure out why Verizon is not heeding their request for a […]

BROOKLYN (VINnews) — Three suspects are in custody, after they terrorized and mugged a Yeshiva student at knifepoint Thursday afternoon. The incident occurred on Ave L and E 14th Street in Flatbush. At approximately 5:00 PM on Thursday, the Yeshiva boy was walking when he was approached by two thugs who brandished a knife and […]

TROY, N.Y. (AP) — A college student was found dead in his home of the flu after a garbled 911 call left rescuers with no means of locating him, authorities said. Police and firefighters in Troy, New York, spent 45 minutes on Feb. 10 searching the City Station apartment complex where Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate […]

SPRING VALLEY (VINnews) — The 25-year-old who stabbed a female security guard to death in the Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley after she asked him to lower his music, was no stranger to violent crime. Blanchard Glaudin was previously charged with attempted rape while he was a patient at Montefiore Nyack Hospital in November, […]

SPRING VALLEY (VINnews) — The Monsey community was shaken on Tuesday after the news broke that a fatal stabbing had occurred inside the Finkelstein Library in Spring Valley. As much as such a heinous crime can never ever be justified, the shock and outrage surrounding the incident was escalated dramatically by the revelation of the […]

KEW GARDEN HILLS (VINnews) — The Kew Garden Hills community of Queens was inconvenienced on Wednesday, after a construction crew accidentally struck high-pressure gas main, causing evacuations across the area. The incident occurred on Main St and 68th Drive on Wednesday afternoon. There were no injuries reported due to the rupture, but authorities evacuated local […]