Jerusalem – Israel’s beach season is in full swing and the annual jellyfish season has also begun, inconveniencing local beachgoers and tourists alike. The swarm, consisting of tens of millions of jellyfish, has reached Israel’s coast over the past week. Israelis have come to know the phenomenon far too well. The marine animals spoil the [...]

Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump has told aides and allies that he is considering removing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross after a Supreme Court defeat on adding a citizenship question to the census, NBC News reported on Monday. Trump retreated on Thursday from adding a contentious question on citizenship to the 2020 census, but insisted [...]

Dover, NH – oe Biden is taking an aggressive approach to defending Obamacare, challenging not just President Donald Trump but also some of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination who want to replace the current insurance system with a fully government-run model. The former vice president will spend much of the coming week talking [...]

Tehran – Iran is ready to hold talks with the United States if Washington lifts sanctions and returns to the 2015 nuclear deal it quit last year, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Sunday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration says it is open to negotiations with Iran on a more far-reaching [...]

Berlin – An umbrella organization of Germany’s Jewish groups is alleging that an article in one of the country’s leading magazines “fuels anti-Semitism.” Central Council of Jews in Germany President Josef Schuster was commenting on an article Spiegel magazine published Saturday about a German parliament resolution denouncing the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement targeting Israeli [...]

New York – Immigrant families and their defenders were on standby Sunday for mass deportation arrests across the United States threatened by President Donald Trump, but by early afternoon there were no signs of a nationwide operation. Trump said on Friday that a wave of arrests of immigrants facing deportation would start over the weekend. [...]

London – Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to become Britain’s next prime minister would want to meet U.S. President Donald Trump within the first two months of becoming prime minister to negotiate a post-Brexit trade deal, the Times newspaper reported on Sunday citing an ally of the former London mayor. “The key to the whole thing [...]

Cairo – Egypt over the weekend exerted efforts to finalize a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas while minimizing Qatari influence in the Strip and pushing towards a reconciliation agreement between Hamas and the Fatah. The Egyptian diplomatic activity took place while facing Hamas’ pressure and Qatar’s opposition, despite the sharp enmity between Hamas and [...]

Dover, NH – Democratic presidential front runner and former vice president, Joe Biden, told a member of the IfNotNow Jewish anti-occupation movement that the “occupation is a human rights crisis,” and called for a two-state solution. He was one of three major Democratic presidential candidates who were ambushed by Jewish anti-occupation activists from the IfNotNow [...]

Norfolk, VA – Funeral arrangements are being made for Rabbi Reuven Bauman, whose body washed ashore just off the northern coast of North Carolina this afternoon. As previously reported on VIN News (http://bit.ly/2GeUqWr), Rabbi Bauman went missing on Jully 9th after jumping into rough waters to rescue a day camper who was struggling in the [...]