VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company’s first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft. The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation […]

BROOKLYN (VINnews) – An NYPD investigation has been launched into an act of vandalism that shattered the window of a Williamsburg yeshiva. Sources told VIN News that the incident took place at the Viznitz yeshiva on the corner of Flatbush and Flushing avenues on July 15th and wasn’t noticed until this morning. Surveillance footage released […]

BROOKLYN (VINnews) – In a New York Post (https://bit.ly/3kw1kvn) interview, a 41 year old Orthodox Jewish man described how he was viciously beaten as he walked to the synagogue last Friday morning. The man, identified as Levi Zupnick, said that he was attacked from behind, leaving him unaware that there were actually two men involved […]

ARIZONA (VINnews) — The Arizona State Senate today is hosting a hearing today examining the current results of the ongoing audit of Maricopa County's 2020 election results...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Recordings of 911 calls after an oceanfront Florida condominium building collapsed in the middle of the night show disbelief, panic and confusion as people tried to comprehend the disaster. “Oh my God! The whole building collapsed!” said one caller told a dispatcher at the Miami-Dade Police Department, which released the […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) — On Sunday, July 11, there was an organized rally in Washington DC titled, “No Fear” to “raise awareness” about antisemitism. The event, organized by Elisha Weisel, brought together roughly 60 Jewish organizations. Groups from the right to the left like AJC, ADL, ZOA, and Stand With Us, as well as religious to […]

NEVADA (JTA) — It has now become a doubly historic Major League Baseball draft. The Washington Nationals selected Elie Kligman with their final and 20th round pick on Tuesday, making him the second observant Orthodox Jewish player ever drafted into the league — and the second in two days. The Arizona Diamondbacks picked 17-year-old Long […]

HAVANA (AP) — Thousands of Cubans marched on Havana’s Malecon promenade and elsewhere on the island Sunday to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis, in one of biggest anti-government demonstrations in memory. Many young people took part in the afternoon protest in the capital, which disrupted traffic until police moved in […]

BROOKLYN (VINnews) — Two police officers and one civilian were injured Thursday evening after the driver of an SUV slammed into a NYPD patrol car. The SUV was equipped with unauthorized lights and sirens, and did not have license plates, police say. The accident occurred at the intersection of Coney Island Avenue and Foster Avenue […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A 6-year-old Kentucky girl who was snatched from her bicycle by a stranger was found quickly, returned to her family and a suspect was charged with kidnapping thanks to the quick actions of neighbors and police, authorities said. Those who witnessed the girl being taken from her Louisville neighborhood July 2 […]