NEW YORK (JTA) — Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate turned leading New York City mayoral candidate, filmed a campaign ad in one of Brooklyn’s Orthodox neighborhoods before Shabbat Friday. Yang visited Toys 4 U, a Borough Park toy store that caters to the local Orthodox community, calling it “the heart of Borough Park”. Yang […]

NEW JERSEY (VINnews) — By now, many of our readers have heard about the disgraceful treatment of Ari and Avital Eisenberg who were humiliated and treated disgracefully by the crew of Spirit Airlines, on their flight back from Orlando 2 weeks ago. It would seem as though Spirits considers their 2-year-old daughter Esther a “law […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — Rep. Lee Zeldin, one of two Jewish Republicans in Congress and a staunch defender of Donald Trump, is running for governor of New York. “The bottom line is this: To save New York, Andrew Cuomo’s gotta go,” Zeldin said in a news release Thursday. Rep @leezeldin announces he will run for […]

NEW JERSEY (VINnews) — A press conference was held Tuesday evening by Michael I. Inzelbuch, the attorney retained by the Jewish family who was kicked off a Spirits Airline flight due to alleged mask violations. Present on the virtual presser was the parents and the 2 children who were kicked off the flight, as well […]

ORLANDO (VINnews) — An entire flight was forced to deplane a Spirit Airlines aircraft on Monday after a 2-year-old child who was eating refused to wear a mask. The incident took place on a flight that was scheduled to travel from Orlando to New York. Footage taken on the airplane shows a young child sitting […]

ORLANDO (VINnews) — Spirit Airlines released a statement on Twitter to defend their actions earlier on Monday, but then quickly deleted it after encountering swift backlash. Earlier on Monday, a Jewish family was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight due to alleged non-compliance of the mask rules. Despite video footage clearly showing a flight attendant […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is stressing that it won’t back any system “that requires Americans to carry a credential” to show they’ve been vaccinated. White House press secretary Jen Psaki says “there will be no federal vaccinations database and no federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential.” She says companies […]

Interview with Dr. Richard Cravatts, President Emeritus, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East on his recent columns, the 2-part series titled, The Lie of Israelis Being the New Nazis: Exposing the grotesque and evil campaign of nazifying Israelis. and Anti-Semites Should Not Define Anti-Semitism. From the column: “The Nazification of Israelis—and by extension Jews—is […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Jewish community came out in droves on Sunday evening to protest Dovid Wasserman unashamedly holding his wife Nechama hostage for nearly 7 years. The rally was held at 4 Hilltop Ln in Monsey, New York in front of the home of Dovid’s mother Mrs. Rivka Wasserman, who continues to harbor […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Republican senator from Mississippi, has a message for Sen. Chuck Schumer: the Sabbath is on Sunday. Hyde-Smith was speaking Wednesday as the Senate debated a slate of state-level bills that would limit voting opportunities. One bill backed by Republicans in Georgia would bar Sunday voting, a day known nationwide […]