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[Feds Launch Website For Claiming Part 2 Of Child Tax Credit]( WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government launched a revamped website Monday — the first day of tax filing season — to help people who were eligible for the expanded tax credit under last year’s pandemic relief bill claim the second half of the payment they were due. The site, ChildTaxCredit.gov, features a new tool that […] [Read More »]( [New NYC Mayor, An Ex-cop, Unveils Plan To Stem Gun Violence]( NEW YORK (AP) — After an unnerving rash of violence in his first three weeks in office, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the city would step up efforts to seize illegal guns and institute a multi-pronged plan to tackle the issue, from streets to storefronts, buses to pews. Adams, a former New York […] [Read More »]( [Holocaust Museum Criticizes Rfk Jr. For Anne Frank Comment]( Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was “reckless” and “outrageous” when he suggested things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum […] [Read More »]( [China Was Israel’s Largest Source Of Imports In 2021, Surpassing US]( BEJING (JTA) – China became Israel’s largest source of imports in 2021, surpassing the United States, according to data released by Israel’s National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday. Last year, Israel imported $10.7 billion in goods from China, compared with $7.7 billion in 2020, a nearly 40% increase. Israel’s imports from the United States, previously […] [Read More »]( [WATCH: LOT Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Cabin Pressure Loss]( WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish LOT airlines whose passengers included four Polish members of the European Parliament made an emergency landing at a German airport Monday after suffering cabin pressure loss. The plane was flying from Warsaw to Brussels when it suffered the pressure loss over Germany. It made an emergency landing in Düsseldorf. […] [Read More »]( [Official: Man Suspected Of Killing NYPD Officer Has Died]( NEW YORK (AP) — The man who shot two New York City police officers in a Harlem apartment, killing one of them and putting another in critical condition, died Monday of injuries sustained when a third officer shot him, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Lashawn J. McNeil, 47, had swung open a […] [Read More »]( [US Puts 8,500 Troops On Heightened Alert Amid Russia Tension]( BRUSSELS (AP) — The Pentagon said Monday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has put up to 8,500 troops on heightened alert, so they will be prepared to deploy if needed to reassure NATO allies in the face of ongoing Russian aggression on the border of Ukraine. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said no final decisions […] [Read More »]( [Former NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver passes away at 77]( ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful figures in state government for two decades before his conviction on corruption charges, has died in federal custody. He was 77. Silver died Monday, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The person could not discuss […] [Read More »]( [UK To Lift Travel Test Requirements For The Vaccinated]( LONDON (AP) — The British government announced Monday that it is scrapping coronavirus travel testing requirements for the vaccinated, news hailed by the travel industry as a big step back to normality. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that “to show that this country is open for business, open for travelers, you will see changes so […] [Read More »]( [Israel’s Top Arab Police Officer Takes Leave Pending Probe]( JERUSALEM (AP) — The highest-ranking Arab Muslim in Israel’s police force has taken leave, the police said Monday, after video emerged showing him tripping over a stabbing victim as he left the scene of a crime in 2020. Maj. Gen. Jamal Hakroosh, 64, made history when he was appointed deputy commissioner in 2016 to lead […] [Read More »]( [Israel To Plant 450,000 Trees In Cities In Effort To Counter Effects Of Climate Change]( JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israel’s cabinet approved a plan to plant 450,000 trees in the country’s cities to mitigate some effects of climate change by offering more shade and cooler temperatures. The plan, which is predicted to cost about 2.25 billion shekels, or $716 million, will be carried out between now and 2040. The goal of […] [Read More »]( [Dow Drops 1,000 Points As Markets Extend Slide In 2022]( NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,000 points Monday as financial markets buckled in anticipation of inflation-fighting measures from the Federal Reserve and fretted over the possibility of conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Stocks extended their three-week decline on Wall Street and put the benchmark S&P 500 on track […] [Read More »]( [Sarah Palin’s Defamation Suit Against NY Times Set For Trial]( NEW YORK (AP) — Well over a decade after she emerged on the national stage as a Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin is on the verge of making new headlines in a legal battle with The New York Times. A defamation lawsuit against the Times, brought by the brash former Alaska governor in 2017, is […] [Read More »]( [Analysis: Crisis In Ukraine A Showdown Of Two World Views]( NEW YORK (AP) — The crisis in Ukraine is hardly going away — a showdown of two world views that could upend Europe. It carries echoes of the Cold War and resurrects an idea left over from the 1945 Yalta Conference: that the West should respect a Russian sphere of influence in Central and Eastern […] [Read More »]( [WATCH: Interview With Dov Hikind On Amazon’s Hate-For-Profit Scheme]( NEW YORK (VINnews) — Very few if any would believe that less than 80 years since the end of the Holocaust a U.S. company would become the number one distributor of evil Nazi propaganda throughout the world. That was Amazon’s Hate for profit. But, world Jewry is very lucky that there is a hero who […] [Read More »]( [Assange Wins First Stage In Effort To Appeal Us Extradition]( LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the first stage of his effort to overturn a U.K. ruling that opened the door for his extradition to U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges. The High Court in London gave Assange permission to appeal the case to the U.K. Supreme Court. But the […] [Read More »]( [CBS Retools Streaming Service To Better Resemble Tv Network]( NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News says it is retooling its streaming service to better incorporate programs and personalities from the television network. The CBS service is debuting a new evening newscast and prime-time lineup on Monday, from a newly-constructed Manhattan-based studio, part of what promises to be an aggressive year of building for news-based […] [Read More »]( [WHO Chief Warns Against Talk Of ‘Endgame’ In Pandemic]( GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization is warning that conditions remain ideal for more coronavirus variants to emerge and says it’s dangerous to assume omicron is the last one or that “we are in the endgame,” while saying the acute phase of the pandemic could still end this year — if […] [Read More »]( [Brother Of Texas Temple Terrorist: ‘Religious Nuts Got Hold Of Him, He Didn’t Hate Jews’]( NEW YORK (VINnews) — The brother of the British terrorist who barricaded himself in a Texas temple on January 15 and took four people hostage said that his brother had been radicalized by “religious nuts” . Gulbar Akram, brother of Malik Faisal Akram who was shot dead as federal agents stormed the temple, has called […] [Read More »]( [LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Inspiring Mussar Lesson from Kansas City Chiefs]( Dear VIN News, As a sports fan who spent years in Kollel, I always look to find mussar in sports. I know it’s just a football game, but I believe that we can use it to inspire growth and motivate ourselves. Last night, Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, stunned the world. […] [Read More »]( [Chasidic Man Hit in Anti-Semitic Attack in Crown Heights]( BROOKLYN (VINnews) – The NYPD hate crime unit, is looking for a suspect that randomly slugged a Chasidic man in Crown Heights over the weekend. The 21-year-old victim was walking at Troy Avenue and Carroll Street in Crown Heights around 1:20 a.m. Saturday when the suspect approached him from across the street and socked him […] [Read More »]( [Judge Miriam Naor, Head Of Meron Government Commission Of Inquiry, Passes Away At 74]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Chief Justice Miriam Naor, who headed the government commission of inquiry into the Meron tragedy last year, passed away Monday morning at the age of 74. Naor recently published the interim findings of the commission regarding the Lag Ba’Omer tragedy, which took the lives of 45 people. Just hours before, Naor […] [Read More »]( [Two Men Drag Corpse Into Post Office To Claim His Pension]( NEW YORK (VINnews) — Irish police opened an investigation into a bizarre incident in which two men carried a dead body into an Irish post office in an apparent attempt to claim his pension. The The deceased pensioner was allegedly “propped up” by the men as they walked into the building in County Carlow on Friday […] [Read More »]( [Agudath Israel’s Moetzes Publishes Sharp Criticism Of Israeli Government’s Anti-Religious Decrees]( NEW YORK (VINnews) — Agudath Israel of America published a letter Monday from the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America strongly criticizing the current Israeli government’s anti-religious actions. The letter called on the Israeli government not to intrude on “the realm of Torah, mitzvos and Jewish education” and called on Jews worldwide to pray for the […] [Read More »]( [Share]( [Share]( [Tweet]( [Tweet]( [Forward]( [Forward]( Copyright © 2022 Vos Is Neias, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: Vos Is Neias 7939 West Ridgewood Rd.New York, NY 10028 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? 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