FLORIDA (VINnews) — Video footage posted by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach shows him being harrassed by two Arab men, who openly displayed their hate towards him by hurling obscenities his way. According to Rabbi Shmuley, the men originally approached him before he started filming and told him “Free Palestine.” The full story posted by Rabbi Shmuley […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signed a decree Sunday to forfeit the transfer of NIS 139 million ($39.6 million) in tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority and redirect it to families of terror victims, as part of punitive measures taken by the new Israeli government over the PA’s international legal action against […]

BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – Police are hot on the trail of a hit and run driver who fled the scene after striking a Chasidic man in Crown Heights this past Friday night, in what appears to be a deliberate move. The NYPD said that the incident took place at 5 PM at the corner of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Eliyah Hawila, the Lebanese man who married a Syrian-Jewish woman in Brooklyn in 2021 and was then discovered to have been raised Muslim, has given a get to his wife, in accordance with a ruling by the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court. Shortly after the wedding, Hawila’s bride and family discovered his background, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot early Saturday, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks and floor tensions that boiled over after a chaotic week that tested the new GOP majority’s ability to govern. “My father always told me, it’s not how you start, it’s how […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Torah world mourns the loss of Hagaon Rabbi Yosef Liberman, Rosh Kollel and Rosh Yeshiva At Shomrei Hachomos and Rabbi of the Sadigura Shul in Jerusalem, who passed away on Shabbos at the age of 95. Rabbi Liberman had been hospitalized Thursday in serious condition, suffering from pneumonia. Until his final […]

WASHINGTON DC (Yaakov M / VINnews) — On Thursday, President Biden had the audacity to compare migrants from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, to Jews who were persecuted by Nazis during the Holocaust. Asked by a reported whether (illegal) migration is a human right, Biden replied affirmatively. He said, “I think it is a human right […]

WASHINGTON (Yaakov M / VINnews) — In a scathing statement, Senator Ted Cruz blasted the Biden administration’s “pathological obsession with undermining Israel”. The statement came after top Biden officials condemned National Security Minister MK Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Har HaBayis this week. “This visit has the potential to exacerbate tensions and to provoke violence,” […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a dramatic hearing taking place at Israel’s Supreme Court Thursday morning, the court is debating the legality of Aryeh Deri’s appointment as a minister in the current Netanyahu government despite having been found guilty of tax offenses a year ago and receiving a suspended sentence. The hearing comes just a day […]

MIAMI (AP) — As Republicans struggled for a second day to elect a House speaker, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida emerged as the choice of conservative holdouts who are refusing to support Kevin McCarthy’s bid. During three rounds of balloting Wednesday, Donalds received 20 votes to McCarthy’s 201 — enough to keep McCarthy short of […]