NEW YORK (JTA) — The first time 6-year-old Bibi Shapiro found out just how widely viewed the video of him singing “Avinu Malkeinu” had been, he was sitting on his mother’s lap in Australia being beamed into Yom Kippur services at one of the largest synagogues in the United States. Like so many others who […]

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah of maintaining a “secret arms depot” in a residential neighborhood of Beirut, warning it could cause another tragic explosion in the Lebanese capital. In an address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, Netanyahu showed maps purportedly showing the missile depot’s […]

MONTREAL (VINnews) — According to a video released Monday evening, a Montreal synagogue was interrupted and dispersed on Yom Kippur, right around or during the Neilah service. In the video, Montreal resident Berel Solomon relates that every member of his synagogue, Beth Chabad Cote St. Luc, was wearing a mask. He says that all the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — “If you keep hitting a brick wall in your endeavors, there’s a sign there….find another way round.” This quote is true both to daily life and to any endeavor including international diplomacy. Many times politicians entrenched in one particular mindset find themselves hitting a brick wall so many times that they […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) – At least three rockets from the Gaza Strip were fired on southern Israel on Tuesday evening. According to the Israel Defense Forces, two rockets were fired at Ashkelon and Ashdod, while a third was intercepted by the Iron Dome air-defense system. Reports indicate that one rocket appears to have caused minor damage […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring “the dawn of a new Middle East,” President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed historic diplomatic pacts with Israel and two Gulf Arab nations that he hopes will lead to a new order in the Mideast and cast him as a peacemaker at the height of his reelection campaign. Hundreds of people […]

COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — Authorities searched Sunday for a gunman who shot and wounded two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who were sitting in their squad car — an apparent ambush that drew an angry response from the president and sparked an anti-police protest outside the hospital where the deputies were being treated. The 31-year-old […]

UMAN (AP) – Ukraine on Thursday said it would deport two Hasidic Jews after they broke apart metal barriers near the grave of an 18th century luminary. Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews travel every Jewish New Year to the town of Uman in central Ukraine to visit the tomb of Rabbi Nahman, founder of […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Four Houston police officers have been terminated after an internal investigation determined they did not use reasonable force when they fired their weapons 21 times at a man who had been experiencing a mental health crisis, killing him in April after he was already injured and on the ground, the city’s police […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) — In leaked audio revealed by Tucker Carlson on Tuesday evening, CNN chief Jeff Zucker is heard praising Donald Trump, calling him “The Boss,” in a conversation with ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. Shockingly, he goes on to give Cohen political advice in how Trump should get through the CNN debate in 2016. Not […]