MONSEY (JNS) — The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday that five additional federal hate-crime charges have been filed against the suspect behind the machete attack on Dec. 28 at a home and prayer hall known as Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul in Monsey, N.Y., injuring five of the around 100 celebrants at a Hanukkah candle-lighting […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Video footage of the area around Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt “no longer exists,” federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday. Officials at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York believed they had preserved footage of guards finding Jeffrey Epstein after he appeared to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s a point to ponder: To what extent is Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson responsible for President Donald Trump stepping away from a potential war with Iran? From his prime-time perch on the top-rated cable network, Carlson has advocated restraint in dealing with Iran, and resisted cheerleading the Trump-ordered drone killing […]

BROOKLYN (JTA) — Though Naisha Couamin walks through a heavily Jewish neighborhood near her home in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn most days, she had never actually talked to a Jewish person until recently. The 17-year-old had plenty of questions about the Hasidic Jews who were her neighbors. She wondered why they wore distinctive […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump heads into his first campaign rally of the election year flush with cash, chafing at impeachment and hoping to capitalize on his order to take out Iran’s top general. Trump will be in northern Ohio for Thursday night’s rally, taking to the campaign trail a day after pulling back […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday that its Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) has made a dramatic breakthrough in the world of laser weapons technology. The DDR&D is one of the most advanced defense technology government branches in the world, and this week, it lifted the veil on a […]

TEHRAN (AP) — If an Iranian missile brought down a Ukrainian airliner, it would be at least the fifth such shootdown since the early 1980s. U.S. officials said Thursday that it was “highly likely” that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed the jetliner late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board. They suggested it could have […]

LONDON (VINnews) — In a remarkable letter to the organizers of the London Siyum Hashas which was held this week in London’s Wembley Arena, the operations manager of the SSE Arena in London, Becky Syrett, expressed her amazement and appreciation of the behavior of the close to 7,000 participants at the event. Syrett wrote the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dramatic rollback of environmental oversight, President Donald Trump took action Thursday to clear the way and speed up development of a wide range of commercial projects by cutting back federal review of their impact on the environment. “The United States can’t compete and prosper if a bureaucratic system holds us […]

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