NEW YORK (VINnews) — During Tuesday’s shootout between police and criminal elements in Jersey City, five civilians, including the two suspects, and a police detective were killed. A report by the New York Post reveals that one of the officers involved in the final shootout and elimination of the suspects was the police-detective son of […]

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — The mayor of a New Jersey city said Wednesday that gunmen targeted a kosher market during a shooting that killed six people. The furious shooting filled the streets of Jersey City with the sounds of heavy gunfire for hours Tuesday just across the Hudson River from New York City. A […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Flight training has been suspended for more than 300 Saudi Arabian students at three bases in Florida in the wake of the deadly shooting by a Saudi Air Force officer on Friday, the U.S. Navy said Tuesday. Navy Commander Clay Doss said classroom training is going to start again this week, and […]

JERSEY CITY (VINnews) — The names of two of the murder victims in today’s shooting in Jersey City have been cleared for release. The names are: Moshe Hersh Deutch, 24, son of Sholom Deutch of Williamsburg Leah Mindel Ferentz, 33. She was the Moshe Dovid Ferentz, and the daughter of Binyomin Hersh Greenfeld These 2 […]

MILAN (AP) — A Holocaust survivor who has been put under police protection due to anti-Semitic threats was escorted Tuesday evening through the center of Milan by hundreds of Italian mayors and thousands of ordinary citizens behind a banner reading: “Hatred has no future.” ‘’I have known hatred. I have known what it means to […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman A choshuva young man from Far Rockaway is in need of a partial liver transplant as soon as possible.  Unfortunately, the family recently received word that the candidate they had in mind was disqualified from being a donor.  The blood type needed is A positive. If anyone would like to assist […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s City Council voted 43-3 Tuesday to mandate “bird-friendly”glass in new buildings in hopes of cutting down on the tens of thousands of birds that die by flying into the city’s buildings every year. The bill, which will take effect one year after it becomes law, will require the first […]

JERSEY CITY, NJ (VINnews) — The JC Kosher Supermarket, where at least 2 Jews were killed in a shooting spree that left 3 civilians and 1 officer dead, was a targeted location in the attack. That’s according to Jersey City mayor Steve Fulop, who tweeted, “Based on our initial investigation (which is ongoing) we now […]

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Six people, including a police officer and three bystanders, were killed in a furious gunbattle Tuesday that filled the streets of Jersey City with the sound of heavy gunfire for hours, authorities said. The dead included two suspects, Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly said. The shooting took place at […]

JERSEY CITY (VINnews) —  An estimated 100 families from a number of Chasidic sects based in Brooklyn and rarely seen in Jersey City have bought over the last few years a scattering of faded but roomy wood-frame rowhouses whose prices are less than half what homes of similar size would cost in New York — […]