United Nations – America’s top diplomat says Central Asian nations should reject Chinese demands to repatriate ethnic minorities to China, where they face repression. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (pahm-PAY’-oh) says Beijing’s detention of Uighur (WEE’-gur) Muslims in western China has nothing to do with terrorism, as China claims, but is an attempt “to erase” […]

Jerusalem – The BBC reported only three out of 149 terrorist attacks against Israel in August 2019, and none of the seven rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, according to media watchdog organization BBC Watch. The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during August 2019 shows that throughout the month a total of […]

Jerusalem – Ahead of their meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday to discuss who will be charged with forming the next Israeli government, the Joint List will reportedly present a list of demands to the Blue and White Party spelling out their conditions for officially endorsing Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz […]

Williamsburg – In another installment of a worrying string of recent attacks against Jews, a group of youngsters attacked 2 Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg on Friday night. In video footage obtained by VIN, a group of 7 youngsters can be seen walking down the street in the area of Wythe Ave and South 10 Street. […]

Washington – Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s recent vow to take away people’s AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States? The number of AR-15 and AK-47s in the U.S. is estimated at a staggering 16 million, […]

Vienna – Austria’s oldest Holocaust survivor, who survived Auschwitz and three Nazi camps in Germany, has died Saltzburg at the age of 106. Vienna’s Jewish Community organization, or IKG, announced the death of Marco Feingold on Friday. He died the previous day of a lung infection, the French News Agency AFP reported. He continued to […]

Washington – President Donald Trump said Sunday that he spoke to Ukraine’s new president about his summer election and the fact that “we don’t want our people, like Vice President Biden and his son” contributing to corruption already happening in the Eastern European nation. Trump appeared to stop just short of acknowledging that he discussed […]

Washington – White House Middle East peace envoy Jason Greenblatt, who announced that he will return to his family and the private sector, wrote in an Op-Ed that his work on an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan has left him “proud, grateful, surprised, sad, and hopeful.” “I wonder if my deceased grandparents who fled Hungary with their […]

Los Angeles – It had all the makings of a massacre. Six guns, including a Colt AR-15 rifle. About 1,000 rounds of ammunition. A bulletproof vest. And an angry Southern California man who threated to kill his co-workers at a hotel and its guests. But a concerned colleague intervened, alerting authorities who arrested 37-year-old Rodolfo […]

Nablus – The Israeli military captured a Palestinian man near Beit Furik near Nablus in Judea and Samaria who was carrying a knife and tear gas, an IDF spokesman reported on on Saturday. The suspect was transferred to security forces for questioning, according to the report. Separately, Israel’s national electric company announced on Sunday that […]