WASHINGTON (AP) — Ensnarled in an impeachment investigation over his request for Ukraine to investigate a chief political rival, President Donald Trump Thursday called on another nation to probe former Vice President Joe Biden: China. “China should start an investigation into the Bidens,” Trump said in remarks to reporters outside the White House. Trump said […]

JERUSALEM(Vosisnaies)- The three-pronged political impasse in Israel has continued unabated after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu received the mandate from President Rivlin last week to try and form a government. The Likud insists that any government include its Chareidi and national religious partners, a condition which is unacceptable to Blue-And-White. Blue-And-White insists from its point of […]

Meir Gorodzki, the longest-serving Get Refuser in Israel, who has spent the last 19 years in jail after refusing to grant a Get to his wife, was released from jail Wednesday and immediately returned to the Chabad Shul in Meah Shearim where he had davened previously. In 1998 , Gorodzki refused to grant a Get […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Agitated and angry, President Donald Trump squared off against House Democrats, packing his increasingly aggressive impeachment defense with name-calling and expletives. Quietly but just as resolutely, lawmakers expanded their inquiry, promising a broad new subpoena for documents and witnesses. Democratic leaders put the White House on notice that the wide-ranging subpoena would […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces fired live bullets into the air and used tear gas against a few hundred protesters in central Baghdad on Thursday, hours after a curfew was announced in the Iraqi capital on the heels of two days of deadly violence that gripped the country amid anti-government protests. In a desperate […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Born after the historic July 1 day when Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997, the 18-year-old protester who was shot at close range in the chest by a police officer during violent demonstrations this week and then arrested in the hospital is part of a generation for whom […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) – Singer Demi Lovato recently returned from a trip to Israel and talked all about the transformative experience on Tuesday on social media. Among her many stops in the country, the 27-year-old visited the Western Wall and Shalva National Children’s Center, which offers free care and support to people with disabilities and their […]

LONDON (JNS) – Jeremy Corbyn sparked outrage for releasing a Rosh Hashanah video that features an activist who last year led a public Jewish mourning prayer for dead members of Hamas. In the clip posted on Twitter ahead of the Jewish holiday, Corbyn visits a grocery store with Jewish Labour Party members to discuss the […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pre-indictment hearing began on Wednesday after three years of investigation. Netanyahu, who did not attend the hearing, is seeking to convince Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and state prosecutors not to indict him on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases, labeled in […]

NEW YORK (VosIzNeias) —  A powerful video has been released by the Yad Malky Legacy organization. The video is in tribute to Malky Klein A’H. The narration in the video was composed by a close family friend in a powerful and poetic way, from a compilation of texts, emails, letters and conversations Malky herself wrote and […]