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[Judge Bemoans NYCc’s Bike Hazard In ‘Gone Girl’ Actor’s Death]( NEW YORK (AP) — A judge decried New York City’s problems with electric and gas-powered bikes on Wednesday as he sentenced the electric scooter rider who crashed into “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes to one to three years in prison for his manslaughter conviction. Brian Boyd, 27, was led away in handcuffs after sentencing in […] [Read More »]( [A German Town Built A Granary Atop Its Jewish Cemetery. Now The Bones Are Yielding Insights About Ashkenazi Dna]( BERLIN (JTA) – The city of Erfurt in central Germany is home to an impeccably restored medieval synagogue made possible because local Jews had been expelled long before the Nazis began their campaign to destroy Jewish sites. Now, Erfurt’s long-hidden Jewish past is again offering new insights — this time about the genetic history of […] [Read More »]( [Rebbetzin Shaindel Rosenbaum ע”ה ×©×™×™× ×“×œ בת ישראל אשר זעליג]( Family getting up: Mrs. Faigy PearlDaughter 511 Princeton Avenue, Lakewood, NJ Please come between 1 PM and 10 PM Mrs. Rivka FeitDaughter Rabbi Shmuel RosenbaumSon Sitting in Israel till Motzei Shabbos. He can be reached at 050-411-4642. Starting Sunday he is sitting at 1154 East 24th Street. [Read More »]( [Jewish Passengers Booted Off Lufthansa Flight In May Are Getting $20,000 Payouts]( BERLIN (JTA) – Nearly seven months after they were denied boarding in Frankfurt, a group of more than 100 Hasidic Lufthansa passengers are getting paid for their troubles. The airline is paying each passenger $20,000 plus giving them $1,000 to reimburse them for expenses incurred during the May incident, according to Dan’s Deals, the discount […] [Read More »]( [Loan Company SoFi Pulls Ad After Criticism That It Features An Anti-Semitic Stereotype]( NEW YORK (JTA) – Rhonda Moore was alarmed when she saw the ad for a student-loan refinancing company that featured what she believed was a stereotypical dishonest Jewish banker. In the ad, for the company SoFi, a young couple is harassed by a schlubby, balding middle-aged man who dumps out the contents of the woman’s […] [Read More »]( [Gov. DeSantis Book ‘The Courage To Be Free’ Coming Feb. 28]( NEW YORK (AP) — The long-rumored memoir-policy book by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is coming out next year. The HarperCollins imprint Broadside will release “The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival” on Feb. 28. Wednesday’s announcement comes in the wake of DeSantis’ decisive reelection victory and likely will add to speculation that […] [Read More »]( [NYC Public Employees Among 19 Accused Of Pandemic Aid Fraud]( NEW YORK (AP) — Nineteen people including 17 New York City and New York state public employees were charged in a federal complaint unsealed Wednesday with submitting fraudulent applications for funds intended to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic. The accused, including employees of New York City’s police department, correction department and public school […] [Read More »]( [NY City Council Speaker Skips Israel Trip, But Says She Is ‘Proud’ Of Colleagues Taking Part]( NEW YORK (JTA) – The speaker of New York’s City Council said she supports her colleagues’ participation in an educational trip to Israel this week, one day after a Jewish news site asked why she was not taking part. “I am proud that the Council’s Jewish Caucus has led a diverse delegation of members to […] [Read More »]( [Israeli Charedi Army Unit Linked To American’s Death Exits West Bank]( JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Wednesday it is temporarily removing a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers out of the West Bank after a 78-year-old Palestinian-American man died following an arrest by its soldiers early this year. The army said the “Netzah Yehuda” Battalion will be moved to the Golan Heights, along Israel’s northern front […] [Read More »]( [Netanyahu On Trump’s Dinner With Kanye West And Nick Fuentes: ‘He Shouldn’t Do That’]( JERUSALEM (JTA) – Benjamin Netanyahu, the incoming Israeli prime minister who has said that Donald Trump was Israel’s best-ever friend in the White House, said the former president’s dinner a week ago with two antisemites was a “mistake.” ‘I think that that’s what I would say about President Trump’s decision to dine with this person […] [Read More »]( [House Votes To Avert Rail Strike, Impose Deal On Unions]( WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House moved urgently to head off the looming nationwide rail strike on Wednesday, passing a bill that would bind companies and workers to a proposed settlement that was reached in September but rejected by some of the 12 unions involved. The measure passed by a vote of 290-137 and now […] [Read More »]( [Haley Signals 2024 Openness Despite Pledge To Back Trump]( CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley, U.N. ambassador under President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that she would take the Christmas holiday to mull a possible 2024 presidential bid, contradicting her statement last year that she wouldn’t enter the race if Trump opted to run again. “We are taking the holidays to kind of look at […] [Read More »]( [Holocaust Survivors Offered DNA Tests To Help Find Family]( NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, Jackie Young had been searching. Orphaned as an infant, he spent the first few years of his life in a Nazi internment camp in what is now the Czech Republic. After World War II he was taken to England, adopted and given a new name. As an adult, he […] [Read More »]( [ISIS Says Leader Abu Al-Hassan Al-Qurayshi Killed In Battle]( BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in battle recently, the group’s spokesman said in audio released Wednesday. He gave no further details. Al-Qurayshi is the second IS leader to be killed this year at a time when the extremist group has been trying to rise […] [Read More »]( [Russian, Chinese Bombers Fly Joint Patrols Over Pacific]( MOSCOW (AP) — Russian and Chinese strategic bombers on Wednesday flew a joint patrol over the western Pacific in a show of increasingly close defense ties between the two countries. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Tu-95 bombers of the Russian air force and the Chinese H-6K bombers flew over the Sea of Japan […] [Read More »]( [R’ Chaim Yecheskel Paneth ז”ל חיים יחזקאל בן אברהם]( Family getting up: Shacharis: 7:30 amMincha: 4:15 pmMaariv: 4:30 pm Mrs. Rivky KlugmanDaughter R’ Herschel PanethSon R’ Moshe PanethSon Mrs. Esther Moskowitz Daughter [Read More »]( [Powell: Fed To Keep Rates Higher For Longer To Cut Inflation]( WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will push rates higher than previously expected and keep them there for an extended period, Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday, in remarks likely intended to underscore the Fed’s single-minded focus on combating stubborn inflation. Powell also signaled in a written speech to be delivered to the Brookings Institution that […] [Read More »]( [Next Generation: Hakeem Jeffries To Lead House Democrats]( WASHINGTON (AP) — Emboldened House Democrats ushered in a new generation of leaders on Wednesday with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries elected to be the first Black American to head a major political party in Congress as long-serving Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her team step aside next year. Showing rare party unity after their midterm election losses, […] [Read More »]( [Iran Condemns Four To Death For Cooperating With The ‘Zionist Regime’]( TEHRAN (JNS) – Four Iranians on Wednesday were sentenced to death for allegedly cooperating with Israel’s Mossad spy agency, according to a Reuters report citing Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency. Those accused were punished “for the crime of cooperating with the intelligence services of the Zionist regime and for kidnapping,” said the report. “With guidance […] [Read More »]( [Innovation Thrives On Israel’s Southern Border]( JERUSALEM (JNS) – The word “Negev” conjures up visions of miles of desert, sand dunes, barren landscapes, camels, and yes, the meme that “Israel made the desert bloom.” But traveling through the northwestern portion of that 4,650-square-mile desert today presents quite a different picture. A recent trip to the “Gaza envelope” and Eshkol region of […] [Read More »]( [Walmart Pulls $40 ‘Elegant Sunscreen Scarves’ That Were Actually Jewish Prayer Shawls]( NEW YORK (JTA) – “Why wear a tallis to shul when you can wear a very real product from Walmart?” Ilan Kogan, an Orthodox rabbinical student, asked on TikTok late Monday. Kogan was talking about “Elegant Sunscreen Scarves Sun Block Shawl Scarf Beach Shawl Towel Clothing Accessories for Women Judaism (Blue),” the search engine-optimized title […] [Read More »]( [3,000-Year-Old Scarab Found In Israel During School Field Trip]( JERUSALEM (JNS) – A 3,000-year-old stone scarab was recently discovered at Azor, some four miles southeast of Tel Aviv, during an eighth-grade school field trip, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday. The carvings on the scarab depict what is believed to be the bestowing of legitimacy on a local ruler. “We were wandering around […] [Read More »]( [Jiang Zemin, Who Guided China’s Economic Rise, Dies]( BEIJING (AP) — Jiang Zemin, who led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989 and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth, died Wednesday. He was 96. Jiang, who was president for a decade until 2003 and led the ruling Communist Party for […] [Read More »]( [Same-sex Marriage Bill Wins Senate Passage]( WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday to protect same-sex marriages, an extraordinary sign of shifting national politics on the issue and a measure of relief for the hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples who have married since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage nationwide. The bill, which would ensure […] [Read More »]( [Ben-Gvir Criticizes IDF Leadership After Jailing Of Soldier Who Taunted Left-Wing Activists]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Incoming National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir criticized IDF leaders for sentencing a soldier to 10 days in military prison for taunting activists in Hevron — and also demanded to visit him behind bars. Ben-Gvir was referring to an incident in which left-wing anarchists demonstrating in Hevron had verbally abused soldiers and disobeyed […] [Read More »]( [Beitar Beis Din Rules: No Construction On Roofs During Winter Due To ‘Damage To Neighbors’]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Beis Din in Beitar Illit has issued an unusual ruling which would prevent residents from performing any construction work on the roofs of their buildings during the winter months as this can cause significant damage to neighbors. In a special letter issued by the Beis Din of Ashkenazi communities in the […] [Read More »]( [WATCH: Boyaner Rebbe Celebrates Youngest Son’s Wedding At ‘Design City’ Near Jerusalem]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a huge wedding which took place at the Design City mall complex in Mishor Adomim, the Boyaner Rebbe, together with thousands of chasidim and a gallery of Admorim and prominent rabbis, celebrated the wedding of his youngest son. The mall boasts large outdoor squares as well as an Italian-styled indoor piazza, […] [Read More »]( [Hasidic Man Harassed On NYC Train, Attacker Brags That NYPD Won’t Do Anything (VIDEO)]( BROOKLYN (VINnews) — A Hasidic man was harassed on the J train heading from Brooklyn to Manhattan on Monday. The incident was tweeted out by another train passenger, who called the incident “terrifiying to witness.” According to the witness, the Hasidic man was doing “literally nothing except for sitting on the train minding his business,” […] [Read More »]( [Study: U.S. Gun Death Rates Hit Highest Levels In Decades]( NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. gun death rate last year hit its highest mark in nearly three decades, and the rate among women has been growing faster than that of men, according to study published Tuesday. The increase among women — most dramatically, in Black women — is playing a tragic and under-recognized role […] [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? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.