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[Iran Says It Has Executed an Israeli Mossad Spy]( [Iran Says It Has Executed an Israeli Mossad Spy]( Iran (AP) — Iran is saying it has executed an Israeli Mossad spy in the country’s southeast, state TV reported Saturday. The report said the spy was linked to foreign intelligence services, including Mossad, and charged with involvement in releasing classified information. The judiciary body executed the person in a prison in Zahedan, the […] [Read More »]( [Rudy Giuliani Ordered to Pay $148 Million as Defamation Trial Wraps Up]( [Rudy Giuliani Ordered to Pay $148 Million as Defamation Trial Wraps Up]( YORK (AP) – A criminal trial awaits Rudy Giuliani in Georgia. He is an alleged unnamed co-conspirator in a federal indictment against Donald Trump. And now he’s been ordered to pay a sum he surely cannot afford. The $148 million verdict in a defamation case brought by two former Georgia election workers marks a […] [Read More »]( [Join the Unitec Tehillim for Singles This Friday!]( [Join the Unitec Tehillim for Singles This Friday!]( join the Asara B’Teves Tehillim Unity event as a Zechus for the singles of our community.  As we mourn the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash, let us use it as an opportunity to unite and help build the Jewish community. The Gemara in Berachos (6b) states that one who is Mesameach Chassan V’Kallah is […] [Read More »]( [What We Need to Know About Asarah B’Taives]( [What We Need to Know About Asarah B’Taives]( Rabbi Yair Hoffman What is Asarah B’Teives all about? On the 10th of Teives, Nevuchadnetzar, the evil king of Bavel began the siege against Yerushalayim during the time of the first Beis HaMikdash. This siege continued for three years until the walls were finally breached on the ninth day of Tamuz. This day was […] [Read More »]( [NYC Travel Advisory: New Yorkers to Prepare for a Coastal Storm Bringing Heavy Rain, Damaging Winds, and Coastal Flooding]( [NYC Travel Advisory: New Yorkers to Prepare for a Coastal Storm Bringing Heavy Rain, Damaging Winds, and Coastal Flooding]( YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM) today issued a travel advisory for Sunday, December 17 and Monday, December 18. The National Weather Service (NWS) is monitoring a major coastal storm that will impact the area with a mix of moderate to heavy rain, strong to […] [Read More »]( [2 Soldiers Killed, 1 In Gaza And 1 On Lebanon Border, Hostage Murdered In Captivity]( [2 Soldiers Killed, 1 In Gaza And 1 On Lebanon Border, Hostage Murdered In Captivity]( (VINnews) — BDE: The IDF reported Saturday evening that Warrant Officer (res.) Yehezkel Azaria, 53, of the 8th Armored Brigade’s 129th Battalion, from Petah Tikva was killed in a drone attack earlier near the northern community of Margaliot near the Lebanon border. Yechezkel Azaria HyD According to the statement, two other service members from […] [Read More »]( [WATCH: Rocket Fired Friday Evening Was Intercepted Over Dome Of The Rock]( [WATCH: Rocket Fired Friday Evening Was Intercepted Over Dome Of The Rock]( (VINnews) — A rocket fired by Hamas Friday evening during a salvo of rockets towards Jerusalem nearly landed on the Dome of the Rock, but was intercepted by Iron Dome missiles. Footage of the successful interception was taken from Temple Mount and has appeared on several Arab social media sites. The footage shows the […] [Read More »]( [3 Hostages Without Shirts Held White Flag And Shouted ‘Help’ In Hebrew. Why Were They Shot?]( [3 Hostages Without Shirts Held White Flag And Shouted ‘Help’ In Hebrew. Why Were They Shot?]( (VINnews) — As more details of the incident in Sejaiya in which three hostages were killed while attempting to reach the IDF are released, it is clear that there was a disastrous mistake, apparently caused by ignoring rules of opening fire. The hostages, who had either managed to escape their captors or were abandoned […] [Read More »]( [Lights Flicker Across NYC as Brief Power Outage Affects Subways, Elevators]( [Lights Flicker Across NYC as Brief Power Outage Affects Subways, Elevators]( YORK (AP) — Lights flickered, subway service was disrupted and firefighters had to rescue people trapped in elevators after a small explosion at an electrical facility caused a momentary power outage in New York City. The brief outage just before midnight Thursday affected most of the city, officials said. “Essentially people saw a flicker […] [Read More »]( [Israeli Military Says It Mistakenly Killed 3 Israeli Hostages in Gaza]( [Israeli Military Says It Mistakenly Killed 3 Israeli Hostages in Gaza]( West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military on Friday mistakenly killed three Israeli hostages during its ground operation in the Gaza Strip, military officials said. The army’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said Israeli troops found the hostages and erroneously identified them as a threat. He said it was not clear if they […] [Read More »]( [POWERFUL: Chris Cuomo Emotional Monologue After Viewing Hamas Footage – ‘Absolute Genocide’]( [POWERFUL: Chris Cuomo Emotional Monologue After Viewing Hamas Footage – ‘Absolute Genocide’]( YORK (VINnews) — TV News anchor Chris Cuomo, formerly of CNN, delivered a powerful and emotional monologue Thursday, after viewing the uncensored footage provided by Israel of the genocidal massacre carried out by Hamas terrorists. Cuomo discussed in great detail his experience, as well as explaining why Israel has every right to retaliate and […] [Read More »]( [Israel offers up to $400,000 for Hamas leaders’ whereabouts]( [Israel offers up to $400,000 for Hamas leaders’ whereabouts]( (JNS) — The Israel Defense Forces is urging Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to help topple Hamas rule, with flyers dropped in the coastal enclave promising up to $400,000 for information on the whereabouts of Yahya Sinwar and other terror leaders. “Hamas’s end is near. For your future. Anyone who can present information that […] [Read More »]( [Attacker of Jewish Couple in Beverly Hills on Shabbat Faces Multiple Charges]( [Attacker of Jewish Couple in Beverly Hills on Shabbat Faces Multiple Charges]( ANGELES (JNS) – Prosecutors have charged Jarris Jay Silagi, 44, with multiple crimes following his alleged attack on Dec. 9 against a Jewish couple walking on Shabbat to their synagogue in Beverly Hills, Calif., saying it was an act of violence that “caused great bodily injury during the commission of the crime.” Silagi allegedly […] [Read More »]( [UK Ambassador to Israel: British Jews Must Feel Safe]( [UK Ambassador to Israel: British Jews Must Feel Safe]( (JNS) – Simon Walters, the British ambassador to Israel, arrived in the Jewish state a few months ago, when talk of Israel-Saudi normalization was the main topic in the region. But on Oct. 7, the Hamas massacre in southern Israel changed everything. Walters spoke with JNS about the ensuing Israel-Hamas war and its implications […] [Read More »]( [Apple Blocks Islamic Jihad and PFLP Telegram Channels on iPhone]( [Apple Blocks Islamic Jihad and PFLP Telegram Channels on iPhone]( YORK (JNS) – The official Telegram channels of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organizations were blocked this week on all devices using Apple’s iOS. The channels were the main propaganda outlets of the U.S.-designated terrorist groups, which used Telegram to share videos of kidnappings and […] [Read More »]( [Israel Sets Sights on Hamas ‘Royalty’ Living Abroad]( [Israel Sets Sights on Hamas ‘Royalty’ Living Abroad]( (JNS) – Hamas’s leadership openly embraces its lavish lifestyle, staying at five-star hotels in Qatar and Turkey and flying internationally on private jets, even as Palestinians in Gaza fight over humanitarian aid in the terrorist-ruled enclave. “A good life is a sign of success and power,” IDF Brig. Gen. (res.) Yosef Kuperwasser, senior research […] [Read More »]( [Is It Ok to Eat? Child Hostages Ask Doctors Who Treated Them]( [Is It Ok to Eat? Child Hostages Ask Doctors Who Treated Them]( (JNS) – Is it OK to eat? Can we look out the window? Is it alright to leave the room? These were among the questions that scores of traumatized Israeli children held hostage for over 50 days by Hamas in Gaza asked doctors and social workers during their first days of freedom and recuperation earlier this […] [Read More »]( [UK Police Say They’re ‘Overjoyed’ That British Teen Missing for 6 Years Has Been Found in France]( [UK Police Say They’re ‘Overjoyed’ That British Teen Missing for 6 Years Has Been Found in France]( (AP) — U.K. police said Friday that they are “relieved and overjoyed” to learn that a teenager found walking along a road in southwestern France is a British boy who went missing six years ago. Greater Manchester Police said the teen claiming to be 17-year-old Alex Batty had held a video call with his […] [Read More »]( [GOP Lawmakers Sink Aid to Penn as Statehouses Watch How Universities Are Handling Israel-Hamas War]( [GOP Lawmakers Sink Aid to Penn as Statehouses Watch How Universities Are Handling Israel-Hamas War]( Pa. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania defeated legislation to send $33.5 million to the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school over criticism that the school has tolerated antisemitism, as statehouses across the U.S. eye how higher ed is handling tensions around the Israel-Hamas war. The bill’s defeat is perhaps the starkest example of how […] [Read More »]( [More Than 100 Injured in a Beijing Rail Collision as Heavy Snow Hits the Chinese Capital]( [More Than 100 Injured in a Beijing Rail Collision as Heavy Snow Hits the Chinese Capital]( (AP) — Two subway trains collided in heavy snow in Beijing, sending 515 people to the hospital, including 102 with broken bones, authorities said Friday. The accident occurred Thursday evening in Beijing’s mountainous west on an above-ground portion of the sprawling subway system’s Changping line. Slippery tracks prompted automatic braking on the leading train. […] [Read More »]( [Denmark Widens Terror Investigation That Coincides With Arrests of Alleged Hamas Members in Germany]( [Denmark Widens Terror Investigation That Coincides With Arrests of Alleged Hamas Members in Germany]( Denmark (AP) — Denmark is holding two people in custody and four others are the target of a terrorism investigation, a prosecutor said Friday, in a case that coincided with an arrest in the Netherlands and several in Germany of alleged Hamas members. Authorities in Germany said three people arrested there were suspected of […] [Read More »]( [2 IDF Soldiers Killed In Gaza Fighting, Including Father Of 3-Week-Old Baby]( [2 IDF Soldiers Killed In Gaza Fighting, Including Father Of 3-Week-Old Baby]( (VINnews) — BDE: The IDF announced that two more soldiers have fallen in combat in the southern Gaza strip. Sergeant Oz Shmuel Aradi, 19, from Kibbutz Hatzor, fell in battle Thursday. Oz Aradi HyD In addition, three soldiers were injured in battle in the southern Gaza Strip and one soldier was seriously injured in […] [Read More »]( [Hague Court Rejects Bid to Ban Transfer to Israel of F-35 Fighter Jet Parts From Dutch Warehouse]( [Hague Court Rejects Bid to Ban Transfer to Israel of F-35 Fighter Jet Parts From Dutch Warehouse]( HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court rejected a request Friday by a group of human rights and humanitarian organizations to order a halt to the transfer to Israel of parts for F-35 fighter jets. The organizations went to court Dec. 4 arguing that delivery of parts for F-35 jets makes the Netherlands complicit […] [Read More »]( [Rav Yitzhak Yosef Criticizes Soldiers Saying Shema In Jenin Mosque: ‘Religious Matters Aren’t For Provocation’]( [Rav Yitzhak Yosef Criticizes Soldiers Saying Shema In Jenin Mosque: ‘Religious Matters Aren’t For Provocation’]( (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, wrote a letter to Rabbi Eyal Karim, the Chief Rabbi of the IDF, warning against allowing behavior such as was seen when a group of IDF soldiers used the loudspeakers in one of the mosques in the city of Jenin for the “Shema” […] [Read More »]( [IDF Retrieves 3 Bodies, 2 Soldiers And 1 Civilian, All Were Murdered In Captivity]( [IDF Retrieves 3 Bodies, 2 Soldiers And 1 Civilian, All Were Murdered In Captivity]( (VINnews) — BDE: During a special operation in Gaza, the bodies of hostages Corporal Nik Beizer and Sergeant Ron Scherman were recovered by IDF soldiers and brought back to Israel. After an identification process carried out by medical officials and military rabbis, on Friday IDF representatives informed the families of Beizer and Scherman, who […] [Read More »]( [Stoliner Rebbe in Zos Chanukah Tisch Discusses Obligation of Ahavas Yisroel for All of Klal Yisroel]( [Stoliner Rebbe in Zos Chanukah Tisch Discusses Obligation of Ahavas Yisroel for All of Klal Yisroel]( Rabbi Yair Hoffman In his Zos Chanukah tisch, the Stoliner Rebbe, Rav Boruch Meir Yaakov Schochet, discussed the obligation of Ahavas Yisroel toward all of Klal Yisroel who are suffering tremendously in the current war.  He spoke in Yiddish and said the following words: “There are so many broken and destroyed families in Klal […] [Read More »]( [Rav Gershon Weiss zt”l 3rd Yartzeit Today last day of Chanukah]( [Rav Gershon Weiss zt”l 3rd Yartzeit Today last day of Chanukah]( [Read More »]( [Prosecutors Say NYC Courthouse Fire Suspect Burned Papers With Complaints About Criminal Justice]( [Prosecutors Say NYC Courthouse Fire Suspect Burned Papers With Complaints About Criminal Justice]( YORK (AP) — The man charged with setting a small fire at the courthouse hosting Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial burned papers bearing complaints about criminal justice, prosecutors said Thursday. Wednesday’s fire forced an evacuation of the main Manhattan civil court building hours after testimony wrapped up in the former president’s trial. But […] [Read More »]( [FBI Arrests California Minor for Role in Synagogue Swatting Ring]( [FBI Arrests California Minor for Role in Synagogue Swatting Ring]( YORK (JTA) – The FBI announced the arrest of a minor who will be charged for two online swatting hoaxes perpetrated against synagogues in Orange County, California. The suspect, whose name was not released because they are a minor, was arrested Tuesday morning by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, in partnership with local […] [Read More »]( [A Man Who Accosted Former Rep. Lee Zeldin at an Upstate NY Campaign Stop Receives 3 Years Probation]( [A Man Who Accosted Former Rep. Lee Zeldin at an Upstate NY Campaign Stop Receives 3 Years Probation]( N.Y. (AP) — A man who climbed onto a campaign event platform in upstate New York last year and accosted Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin received three years probation Thursday. David Jakubonis approached the then-U.S. representative while carrying a keychain with two sharp points at a campaign rally near Rochester, New York in July […] [Read More »]( [GOP Picks Mazi Melesa Pilip, Ethiopian-Born Israeli-American, to Run To Replace George Santos]( [GOP Picks Mazi Melesa Pilip, Ethiopian-Born Israeli-American, to Run To Replace George Santos]( YORK (JTA) – Long Island Republicans selected Mazi Melesa Pilip, an Ethiopian Jewish Nassau County legislator, to run in the special election to replace George Santos, who was expelled after he was exposed for alleged fraud and lies, including that he was Jewish. Pilip emerged as a likely contender to replace Santos when his […] [Read More »]( [CAMERA billboard truck to confront newspaper for pro-Hamas coverage]( [CAMERA billboard truck to confront newspaper for pro-Hamas coverage]( – The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) has launched an aggressive campaign to counter misleading anti-Israel disinformation continually found in The Washington Post. CAMERA will send a truck with a mobile billboard to drive around the publication’s headquarters. One ad will feature the logo of the daily newspaper on […] [Read More »]( [Share]( [Share]( [Tweet]( [Tweet]( [Forward]( [Forward]( Copyright © 2023 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 600 Reisterstown Rd Suite 401Baltimore, MD 21208 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? 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