Brooklyn, NY - The NYPD is turning to the public for assistance, hoping that surveillance footage will help them nab the man who viciously beat a Chasidic man as he walked home from shul on Shabbos afternoon. As previously reported on VIN News (http://bit.ly/2HVJE75), a 52 year old Crown Heights resident was assaulted by a man who made anti-Semitic remarks and threatened to kill him repeatedly. Police describe the suspect as a 6 foot tall bearded black man in his forties, weighing 200 pounds and wearing dark clothing.  Surveillance video shows the suspect wearing glasses and a dark baseball cap with a colored bill. The incident, the second to involve the beating of a Chasidic man in Crown Heights in a week, is being investigated by the NYPD as a hate crime.  Two rewards have b...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's main Jewish leader says he would advise people visiting big cities against wearing Jewish skullcaps, following a street assault last week on two young men wearing them. The attack in Berlin, in which a 19-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker is a suspect, added to growing concern in Germany about anti-Semitism. Josef Schuster, the head of Germany's Central Council of Jews, told broadcaster Radioeins Tuesday that wearing a skullcap is right in principle, but that he was advising individuals "against showing themselves openly with a kippa in a big-city setting in Germany, and wear a baseball cap or something else to cover their head instead." Schuster suggested three years ago that Jews shouldn't wear skullcaps in areas with large Muslim populations. ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Amazon's latest perk ... free delivery to your car. The Seattle company said Tuesday that it has begun delivering packages in 37 cities to Prime members who own newer General Motors or Volvo vehicles. The delivery service works when cars are parked in publicly accessible areas, such as on the street in front of an apartment building, at a workplace surface parking lot, or in a home driveway — but not in a private parking garage, for example. Packages can put in the vehicle's trunk or out of plain sight. Deliveries via the Amazon Key In-Car service are available to Prime members with 2015 year or newer Chevrolet, Buick, GMC or Cadillac vehicles with GM's OnStar connected-car service, and those with a 2015 or newer Volvo vehicle with an acti...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices jumped in February as buyers compete fiercely over a dwindling number of properties for sale. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index released Tuesday jumped 6.3 percent in February from a year earlier, matching December's increase. That jump was the largest in nearly three years. Steady job gains and rising numbers of millennials moving out on their own has intensified the competition for homes. February's price gain far outpaces average increases in wages or inflation. Americans are becoming reluctant to sell their homes as mortgage rates rise, preferring to renovate instead. Others are holding onto their homes because they see few other options available. That's kept supply tight: The number of homes for sal...
שמחת התנאים לנינת האדמו"ר מסקולען הכלה בת הרה"ג ר' חיים שלמה אדלער שליט"א ר"י דרכי נועם בן אב"ד אמרי נועם שליט"א וחתן הגה"צ דומ"ץ סקולען שליט"א חתן כ"ק אדמו"ר מסקולען שליט"א Tenoim for a Great Granddaughter of the Skulen Rebbe אייר תשע"ח Photo Credit: JDN
The recent discovery of a letter by Rabbi Avraham ben Nachman of Tulchyn has sparked great public interest. Rabbi Avraham’s father, Rabbi Nachman of Tulchyn, was the closest disciple of Rabbi Nosson of Breslev, commonly known by the acronym “Moharanat.” He succeeded Rabbi Nachman of Breslev and promoted and broadened his Chassidic movement and teachings. In this letter, Rabbi Avraham cites Rabbi Nachman of Breslev’s opinion regarding the corporal punishment of children and the great risks and perils that it can engender. The letter, whose value is estimated at thousands of dollars, is up for public sale at the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem, today(Tuesday) evening. The letter discusses Rabbi Nachman of Breslev’s opinion on corporal punishment of children an...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian ambassador in Malaysia says the body of a Hamas militant killed last week in Kuala Lumpur will be repatriated to the Gaza Strip for burial. Ambassador Anwar al-Agha said on Thursday that Egypt agreed to allow the body to be returned through its border with Gaza. Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman had appealed to Egypt to refuse the Palestinian request. The body is expected to arrive in Gaza on Thursday. Fadi al-Batsh, an electrical engineering lecturer at a Malaysian university, was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle as he was on his way to a mosque early last Saturday. Hamas, a militant group sworn to Israel's destruction, described al-Batch as a "commander" in its military wing and accused Israel of assassinati...
Jerusalem, Israel - Apr. 23, 2018 - The Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, Israel, hosted an event marking Israel's 70th anniversary, with the participation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and  Israeli and foreign ambassadors on Monday evening. In his remarks Netanyahu emphasized, "Israel’s policy has not changed since Begin. Israel will not allow regimes that seek our annihilation to acquire nuclear weapons".  This is why we opposed so resolutely the Iran deal, because it gives Iran a clear path to a nuclear arsenal. It allows, over a few years, unlimited enrichment of uranium, the core ingredient required to produce nuclear bombs—and nothing else—and it also does not deal with the ballistic missiles that can deliver this weapon...
James Shaw Jr. single-handedly wrestled an AR-15 from a man at a Waffle House who had just gone on a shooting rampage in Antioch, Tennessee, early Sunday morning, killing four people. Shaw said he didn’t consider it heroic when he rushed at the man, took his gun and pushed him out of the restaurant. Shaw was getting breakfast with a friend at the time. “I’m not a hero. I’m just a regular person, and I think anybody could have did what I did if they are just pushed into that kind of cage,” he said, growing emotional, at a news conference Sunday. “You have to either react or you’re going to fold, and I chose to react because I didn’t see any other way of living, and that’s all I wanted to do. I just wanted to live.” After saving ...
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — A Muslim civil rights group blasted President Donald Trump and his administration Monday, saying his words and policies led to a sharp increase in attacks and bias against Muslims in 2017. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday the number of reported anti-Muslim hate crimes and reported incidents of discrimination, bullying, harassment and other acts of anti-Muslim bias both jumped 15 percent last year. The group blames the increase on the president, particularly his push to ban immigrants from several Muslim-majority countries. The ban now includes Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, along with non-Muslim North Korea and some Venezuelan officials. It originally also included Iraq. The report says "Trump's xenophobic rhetoric ... embolden...
Washington - Investigators are examining terrorism as the likely motive behind a van attack in Toronto that killed nine people on Monday, a U.S. security source said. The source said there was no reason to believe that the incident in which a Ryder rental van plowed into a crowd was an accident.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein laid aside the stress of one part of his job Monday to put himself in a different kind of pressure cooker: an argument at the Supreme Court. Dressed in a traditional morning coat and striped pants, with the added flash of a pair of presidential cufflinks, Rosenstein represented the Trump administration in a case about a prison sentence for a convicted drug dealer at a rare afternoon session of the court. "Not bad," he said before the arguments, showing the cufflinks briefly to friends who had come to watch him argue. The cufflinks were sent last week by White House counsel Don McGahn, a Justice Department spokeswoman said. For a little while, Rosenstein was able to cast off the worries of overseeing the investigation into Ru...
Brooklyn, NY - Hours after the FDNY found itself subjected to a barrage of criticism for assigning a firefighter who proudly proclaimed his anti-Semitic views to a firehouse on the outskirts of Borough Park, the department has changed course, electing to send the individual in question to another location, according to NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind. As previously reported on VIN News (http://bit.ly/2HmknlC), 28 year old Joseph Cassano graduated from the FDNY’s Fire Academy last week and had been placed at Engine Company 247 on 60th Street between 13th and New Utrecht avenues.  The son of former FDNY commissioner Salvatore Cassano, Joseph Cassano had already found himself in the media spotlight in 2011 for multiple racially charged tweets including one that read “I like jews...
Jerusalem - Israeli students have developed a special system designed to identify wildfires at an early stage before they spread, preventing damage and even saving lives. Developed by 17-year-old twins Gilad and Neta Drori, their system takes aerial photos taken by satellite or cameras attached to observer balloons, which then analyses and compares them using an algorithm for image processing. The algorithm analyzes the color of the image by infrared and ultraviolet waves according to the time of the photograph, and compares the images at different times in order to ascertain if there is an indication of a fire. If one is detected an alert is then sent to the relevant authorities with the coordinates of the fire. According to Gilad, the idea for the project came after the wildfires wh...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tending to bonding before business, President Donald Trump and France's Emmanuel Macron opened the French president's visit Monday with an anything-but-ordinary double date with their wives at George Washington's house. The presidents and their spouses hopped on a helicopter bound for Mount Vernon, Washington's historic riverside home, for a private dinner one night before the leaders sit down for talks on a weighty agenda including security, trade and the Iran nuclear deal. Macron's pomp-filled three-day state visit to Washington underscores the importance that both sides attach to the relationship: Macron, who calls Trump often, has emerged as something of a "Trump whisperer" at a time when the American president's relationships wit...
TORONTO (AP) — A rented van plowed down a crowded Toronto sidewalk Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 15 before the driver fled and was quickly arrested in a confrontation with police, Canadian authorities said. Witnesses said the driver was moving fast and appeared to be acting deliberately, but police officials would not comment on the cause or any possible motive. Speaking at a news conference Monday night, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders raised the initial death toll of nine to 10, saying another victim had died at a hospital. He said 15 others were hospitalized. Saunders identified the man detained after the incident as Alek Minassian, 25, a resident of the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill. He said the suspect had not been known to police previously. Asked if there was...
Toronto's police chief says an incident in which a rented van smashed into pedestrians appeared to have been deliberate. Police Chief Mark Saunders made the comment at a news conference Monday night hours after the van killed 10 people and left 15 more hospitalized. The driver had fled but was surrounded by police and detained. Saunders said, "The incident definitely looked deliberate." The chief identified the suspect as Alek Minassian, a 25-year-old from the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill. ___ 8:20 p.m. Toronto's police chief says a 10th person has died after a rented van plowed into pedestrians along a sidewalk in Toronto. Fifteen people are reported in the hospital. Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders also has released the name of the purported driver detained after Mo...
HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife, Barbara, a spokesman said Monday. Jim McGrath said on Twitter that the 93-year-old Bush is "responding to treatments and appears to be recovering." He was admitted Sunday morning to Houston Methodist Hospital after an infection spread to his blood, McGrath said. Barbara Bush was laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony attended by her husband and former presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and their wives, along with current first lady Melania Trump. The elder Bush uses a wheelchair and an electric scooter for mobility after developing a former of Parkinson's disease, and he has needed hospital treatment several times i...
A Toronto police official says nine people have been killed and 16 injured from a van that jumped onto a sidewalk and struck pedestrians in the north part of the city. Deputy Police Chief Peter Yuen says the driver of the van is in custody but Yuen has not provided any possible cause or motive in Monday's incident. He says the investigation is continuing. Yuen also has not given any details on the injuries. ___ 4:25 p.m. Canada's minister of public safety says it's too soon to say whether the crash of a van into pedestrians in Toronto is a case of international terrorism. Ralph Goodale tells reporters that police are still investigating to determine what happened and why in Monday's incident in northern Toronto in which a van struck a crowd of pedestrians. He dec...
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