COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities on Sunday identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building, ending a tense standoff that President Joe Biden called “an act of terror.” Malik Faisal Akram was shot and killed […]

TEXAS (VINnews) – The final moments from the hostage situation at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. Video from Dallas TV station WFAA shows people running out a door of the synagogue, and then a man holding a gun opening the same door just seconds later, before he turns around and closes the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The continuing contacts between the lawyers of former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit have led to significant progress in the effort to reach a plea bargain agreement over Netanyahu’s legal indictments. Previously it was reported that the issue separating the sides focused on moral turpitude. The prosecution is demanding […]

NEW YORK (AP/VINnews) — A Muslim man entered a reform temple in Texas during Saturday services and is currently holding a rabbi and his congregants hostage. The man claims he has placed explosives in...

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Chaim Kanievski Shlita has sent a personal condolence letter to Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky who is sitting shiva in Philadelphia after his rebbetzin passed away this week at the age of 92. Rabbi Chaim wrote the letter in his own handwriting and submitted it to Rabbi Yeshayahu Graucher, who travelled from Israel […]

UNITED KINGDOM (VINnews) — A Jewish employee has filed a complaint against his former employer, claiming that he was forced to remove his yarmulka during work. He says that the firm allegedly gave him the anti-Jewish instructions, after getting a complaint from a client he was training. Golan Levy, of London, is a martial arts […]

ISRAEL (VINnews) — The Charedi “Cell Phone Mafia” has been wreaking endless havoc on stores in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak. Extremists have vandalized and threatened phone stores, in a pressure campaign to force them to comply with the guidelines of the Communications Vaad. B’Chadrei Charedim has reported multiple instances of harassment, threats, and vandalism against […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Thursday fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Bedouin Arabs protesting a tree-planting campaign they say is aimed at pushing them off disputed land. It was the third consecutive day of demonstrations by Bedouin residents of southern Israel’s Negev desert against a forestry project […]

MANHATTAN (VINnews) — Well, that was fast. Some sources say that Eric Adams, less than two weeks into his term as mayor, may have already violated ethics laws. The Mayor has appointed his own brother Bernard to a top position in the NYPD–deputy commissioner, which earns over $200,000 a year. What are Bernie’s qualifications? He […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a disastrous accident which occurred Wednesday evening in the Jordan Valley, two IDF officers were killed by friendly fire. Major Ofek Aharon (28) and Major Itamar Elharar (26) both served as company commanders in the IDF’s elite Egoz commando unit. The IDF spokesman released an official statement with the names of […]