JERUSALEM (VINnews) – On Friday, November 15th, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Tal Cooperstein was on his way to a medical emergency on Mivtza Sinai Street in Bat Yam when a woman struck his ambucycle while driving her car. He was treated at the scene by his comrades before being  akentto Wolfson Hospital for treatment. Tal […]

LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is warning Democrats against adopting “purity tests” in the presidential primary and alienating voters needed to defeat President Donald Trump in the general election. Obama spoke Thursday before about 100 donors during a question-and-answer session with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez in Los Altos […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — The disgraced former mayor of Baltimore pleaded guilty Thursday to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges in a case involving sales of her self-published children’s books. Catherine Pugh pleaded guilty in federal court in Baltimore to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the government and tax evasion. But she pleaded […]

(WASHINGTON (JTA) — Some 240 Congress members have signed on to a bipartisan letter to the U.N. secretary-general calling for an international effort to defend Israel and limit the Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah. Antonio Guterres, the letter said, should “lead an international effort to limit Hezbollah’s capabilities and to avoid the devastating but avoidable outcome […]

BERLIN (JTA) — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany will make her first visit to the site of the Auschwitz Nazi camp in her 14-year tenure. The visit to the former death camp in Poland is scheduled for Dec. 6, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Thursday. She will participate there in events to mark the […]

NONSEY (VINnews) — The victim of the brutal stabbing attack in Monsey on Wednesday has undergone a second surgery since the attack. The surgery was on his skull, which was fractured in the assault. If all goes well, he will undergo a third surgery, this time to save his eye that was seriously injured in […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a defiant tone on Thursday night, calling the corruption charges levied against him as an “attempted coup,” and that he vows to remain in office and fight the charges. “This is what they call a personal investigation. A personal investigation on steroids,” Netanyahu said in a […]

MONSEY (VINnews) — 3 individuals from Monsey, NY were arrested by the FBI Thursday in a case involving a highly controversial tactic by the government. Essentially, the government takes a person who has violated the law and faces harsh legal repercussions and gets that person – called a Confidential Witness (CW) to help catch other […]

TENNESSEE (JTA) — A judicial board in Tennessee cleared a judge who linked on social media to articles saying the Jews should “get the f*** over the Holocaust” of being anti-Semitic, racist and anti-immigrant. Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Jim Lammey, who had also called Muslim immigrants “foreign mud,” was reprimanded by the Tennessee Board […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Netanyahu’s grandchildren are all Chareidi, since his only married child from his first marriage, Noa Haran, became religious a number of years ago and married Daniel Roth. Their children study in the Darkei Shmuel Talmud Torah in Jerusalem, which is affiliated with the Etz faction of Lithuanian Chareidim who do […]