WASHINGTON (AP) — Charging that Iran was “fully responsible” for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump ordered about 750 U.S. soldiers deployed to the Middle East as about 3,000 more prepared for possible deployment in the next several days. No U.S. casualties or evacuations were reported after the attack Tuesday […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York police arrested a man after a video surfaced showing him apparently trying to abduct a woman on the subway. Sonny Alloway, 48, was charged with unlawful imprisonment on suspicion of grabbing a young woman and carrying her off a No. 6 train Sunday in the Bronx, the New York […]

NEW JERSEY (VINnews) — On a historic day on which hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world come together to celebrate such a momentous occassion, it truly warms the heart to see Jews lend a hand to bring each other closer. A bus heading to the Siyum HaShas broke down Wednesday on the Garden […]

ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY (VINnews) – The family of one of the men wounded in the stabbing rampage in Rockland County has released a photograph of his devastating injuries – showing him on a respirator with a heavily sutured, bloodied head. “This is the visual state of Josef Neumann who has been stabbed at the Hanukkah […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Siyum Hashas marks the completion of the daily reading and study of one page of Talmud from the 2,711 set. The cycle takes about seven and a half years to finish. “The New Jersey State Police along with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners will be on hand […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Since the 1940s each Siyum eclipsed the previous one in size. The impact of each Siyum has had an even more significant effect with each cycle of Daf Yomi. After Rav Meir Shapiro launched Daf Yomi at the first Knessiah Gedolah of Agudas Yisroel, Daf Yomi’s first Siyum was held at […]

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump says the federal government will soon announce a new strategy to tackle underage vaping, promising, “We’re going to protect our families, we’re going to protect our children, and we’re going to protect the industry.” Trump was vague about what the plan would entail but suggested “certain flavors” […]

NEW YORK (TorasAvigdor.org) — The gemara says כל בי עשרה שכינתא שריא — When ten Jews come together, the Shechina rests on them (Sanhedrin 39a). Now, you’ll say that’s because a Jew is holy, so when ten kedoshim come together we understand that the Shechinah should rest on them. But I’m going to tell you […]