NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump kicked off New York City’s Veterans Day Tribute on Monday by saying the nation’s veterans “risked everything for us. Now it is our duty to serve and protect them every single day of our lives.” Trump spoke at the opening of the 100th annual parade organized by the […]

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (AP) – — The Palestinian president says he has “slapped” the U.S. Administration in the face by rejecting President Donald Trump’s promised peace plan. In a speech Monday, Mahmoud Abbas derisively referred to the U.S. peace plan, known as the “Deal of the Century,” as the “Slap of the Century.” “They tried […]

UKRAINE (JTA) – A Ukrainian court convicted four people of the robbery of a rabbi in 2016 that resulted in his death. Two of the defendants in the trial around the death of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deitsch in 2017 were minors when they committed their crimes,according to the prosecutor’s office of the Zhytomyr region. Of […]

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s commissioner to Expo 2020 in Dubai says next year’s world fair offers the country an opportunity to present a fresh face to the Arab world. Elazar Cohen says Monday he’s sure Israel will draw much interest from the Emirati hosts and various Arab visitors, particularly regarding the country’s technological prowess. He […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Rep. Peter King, a moderate Republican who has represented a Long Island congressional district for nearly 30 years, announced Monday he won’t seek reelection in 2020, presenting Democrats with a fresh suburban target in 2020 as they seek to defend their majority. The decision comes days after voters flocked to Democratic […]

SAN FRANCISCO (VosIzNeias) – Retail giant and online marketplace Amazon.com is offering free shipping to Israel on orders which exceed $49. Amazon also said, that it has launched an international Amazon website which is available now in Hebrew. This is in addition to Amazon’s recently launched Israeli platform, which contains only sellers in Israel. The […]

BORO PARK (VosIzNeias) — A Jewish mother and child became the victim of an egging attack in Boro Park on Sunday, becoming the fifth egging attack in recent days. The mother and child were walking on 38th Street when they were confronted by a group of youths who run up behind them and pelt them […]

LONDON (JTA) – Cars and garages were spray painted with red swastikas and messages described as anti-Semitic and racist by local media. The messages were discovered on Sunday morning in Ferrymead, Canvey Island, in Essex, England, located northeast of London. Sunday was observed in the United Kingdom as Remembrance Sunday, which is a day to […]

  NEW YORK(VosIzNeias) — An armed vandal broke two windows on the Brooklyn Ave side of the Bais Rivkah building on Lefferts Avenue in Crown Heights on Friday night. The vandal was caught on surveillance cameras at around 8:10 PM that night, according to information obtained from Crown Heights HaShomrim. As he was walking down […]

JERUSALEM (VosIzNeias)— As tens of thousands of people converge on Kever Rachel to mark her Yahrzeit, (which this year fell on Shabbos, meaning that people came on Thursday, Friday, Motzei Shabbos and Sunday), many of them are unaware that there is a permanent Yeshiva community adjacent to the tomb which has existed for the last […]