JERUSALEM (JNS) — Coalition talks continue with Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, who is trying to use the most of the 28 days that Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has given him to form a coalition. While Gantz has been holding many meetings, the possibility of him succeeding to form a government seems to […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The man leading the inquiry into the origins of the Russia probe is no stranger to politically sensitive investigations. In his 41-year career as a prosecutor, John Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, has led investigations into the FBI’s cozy relationship with Boston mobsters such as James “Whitey” Bulger and the […]

GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization said Friday that China can impose tariffs on up to $3.6 billion worth of U.S. goods over the American government’s failure to abide by anti-dumping rules with regard to Chinese products. The move hands China its first such payout at the trade body at a time when it […]

WASHINGTON (VosIzNeias) – Donald Trump is arguably the most pro-Israel president in U.S. history. Could it be that Trump has Jewish roots in his family? The president himself is not Jewish, nor does he have any known Jewish ancestors. His father, Fred Trump, was a Lutheran who hailed from Bavaria, although he claimed Swedish ancestry, […]

LIVINGSTON, NJ (JTA) – A new 11,000-square-foot shopping center here is home to 15 storefronts, including a bank, pet shop and clothing store. There’s a health center with a dentist and doctor’s office and a ShopRite supermarket. A traffic guard monitors the crosswalk, which is bisected by a plant and tree-lined strip. After a day […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) – When it comes to pressuring Israel, Elizabeth Warren doesn’t have a specific plan. The senator from Massachusetts, who has caught up in polling with front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination, now faces intensified scrutiny as a newly viable contender. And what has emerged is that Warren is vague about how she would […]

LONDON (AP) – A 22-year-old man has been arrested in Ireland in connection with the deaths of 39 people whose bodies were found in a container truck in southeast England last week. A spokesman for the Dublin High Court said Eamonn Harrison, of Newry in Northern Ireland, appeared in court Friday. Irish police could not […]

JERUSALEM (VosIzNeias) – A new Israeli application called Gravez helps you locate and see the graves of your loved ones buried in Israel from any cell phone. To locate the grave, users only have to provide the application with basic data such as the first and last name (in Hebrew), year of death, cemetery or […]

WASHINGTON (VosIzNeias) – Former Vice President Joe Biden Biden told a Wall Street Journal reporter on Thursday that he strongly opposes calls by other Democratic presidential candidates to condition U.S. aid to Israel on steps to end the occupation in the West Bank. Biden said calls to use aid to Israel as leverage are “absolutely […]

TEHRAN (VosIzNeias) – A rare occurrence happened this week in the Iranian capital, in a country that regularly threatens to wipe out Israel the only Jewish state. Members of the Jewish community held a memorial service for the Jewish soldiers who were killed in the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. The ceremony was joined by […]