New York - Footage of John McCain being interviewed as a bedridden prisoner during the Vietnam War has been released by the French national archive. The video portrays the Republican as a hero. In the footage an emotional and shirtless McCain passes a message to his wife saying he will get well and loves her. He also describes being shot down over Hanoi in 1967, and parachuting into a...

Monroe, NY - Orange County is threatening to impose fines of $1,000 a day on the village of Kiryas Joel for the illegal sidewalk it built along County Route 44, undermining the guardrail and forcing the road to be closed while repairs are completed. [County executive have since negotiated an agreement with Kiryas Joel] It is vitally important that the threat become a reality, that the...

London - A man from Cricklewood has been found guilty of a double stabbing in Golders Green. Mohamed Jawa Ahmed, 37, of North Circular Road, was found guilty at Wood Green Crown Court of stabbing two men aged 43 and 47 on April 25. The 47-year-old man was stabbed at around 6pm in the right of the abdomen, as was reported at that time here on Vos Iz Neias, the man has now made a full...

New York - When Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld testified on Capitol Hill, he attributed the firm’s demise to “a litany of destabilizing factors,” including “rumors, widening credit default swap spreads, naked short attacks, credit agency downgrades and a loss of confidence.” The underlying factor, professor Aaron Levine says, is one Fuld and fellow Wall Street honchos neglect to...

York City - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the public artwork by Olafur Eliasson that put four waterfalls in the East River and New York Harbor brought in an estimated $69 million for New York City, exceeding initial expectations of $55 million. The work drew 1.4 million visitors from June 26 to Oct. 13 to view the installation off Manhattan's East Side. ``People didn't buy tickets or pass through...

Wesley Hills, NY - A 14-year-old boy was hurt in the second hit-and-run crash in the village in a week while walking with his friends. Vin News has learned that the boy was walking walking last night to a shul on Lime Kilm Road to Hakafos when he was hit by a car near the Lime Kiln Elementary school. Another boy walking with him was slightly injured. A third boy with them was not struck. Both...

Berlin - It was almost exactly seven decades ago that Nazi SA thugs spread out across Germany to spread terror among the Jewish population. The event, which saw thousands of Jewish shops destroyed, hundreds of synagogues torched and dozens of Jews killed, came to be known as Kristallnacht. Now, an Israeli journalist conducting research near Berlin has stumbled upon what might be a massive dump...

Kiryas Joel, NY - A 9-year-old boy struck by a vehicle in the driveway of a condominium complex on Ruzhin Road remained in critical but stable condition at Westchester Medical Center Monday, said Kiryas Joel Public Safety Director Moses Witriol. Witriol said the incident was unrelated to an apartment fire that happened around the same time – also on Ruzhin Road – and left six families...

New York City - A judge denied this afternoon a petition filed by two Brooklyn council members aimed at delaying tomorrow's City Council vote on term limits. The petition, filed by council members Bill de Blasio and Letitia James, says that the vote would violate the city's Conflict of Interest law, as the council would be voting on the extension of term limits for its own members, as well as...

New York - Pollster John Zogby: Democrat Barack Obama moved very close to a double–digit lead over Republican John McCain in the national horserace for President, continuing his slow push forward above the 50% mark, gaining 1.3 points in the last day. Data from this poll is available here McCain is slowly losing ground, having lost another 0.4 points in this latest report on the...

Israel - Five Torah crowns and several finials were stolen from a synagogue for Cochin Jews in the town of Nevatim in the Negev, during the Simchat Torah holiday. Among these were 300-year-old crowns that had survived the journey from India to Israel. "The night watchman called me frantically from the synagogue late last night," the town's security officer said. "When I arrived, I was appalled...

Williamsburg, NY - The Obama campaign plunged into the heart of the ultra-Orthodox community at a Sukkot event hosted by a rabbi in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, wearing a yarmulke with “my bubbe votes for Obama” written on it, spoke in a Sukkah with a delegation of rabbis and members from different ultra-Orthodox sects. As at most Jewish Obama...

New York - Stocks fell sharply Two days of 'Yom Tov' Tuesday and Wednesday after the latest bevy of big names reporting earnings issued gloomy outlooks or missed their targets altogether. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down Tuesday 231 points to close at 9,033.00 and today Wednesday the Dow finished down 514.45, to close at 8519.21. The blue-chip index saw wild swings and...