Month April 2019
New Mexico – A café owner in New Mexico is closing shop after backlash over a post on his Facebook page full of anti-Semitic invective. Michael Palombo, owner of V Roast Bistro, a cafe in the Nob Hill neighborhood of… Continue Reading →
New York’s plan to charge a fee for motorists entering its congested midtown area won’t go into effect for another two years but is already renewing time-honored animosities between the state and its neighbor to the west. Read more on… Continue Reading →
Jewelry worth NIS 30,000, including an engagement ring and wedding band were recently stolen from a yeshiva in Telshe Stone. This past Shabbos, the Shabbos before their chasenah, a family was hosted in a yeshiva and the items mentioned were… Continue Reading →
Washington – President Donald Trump is blasting the investigation into Russian election meddling as “The Greatest Political Hoax of all time!” hours before the long-awaited released of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report Thursday. Trump’s first tweet of the day blasted… Continue Reading →
The weekly Shiur delivered by Reb Yisroel Meir Shapiro.
Berlin – German prosecutors have charged a 92-year-old former concentration camp guard with being an accessory to murder, in what will be one of the last ever cases against Nazi-era war crimes. Hamburg prosecutors accused the man, identified only as… Continue Reading →
The following is via the First Liberty Institute: A California judge has fined an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi over six thousand dollars for reporting the vandalism of his synagogue to the police. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Jerusalem – Israeli police say they detained four suspects involved in an attempt to smuggle two baby goats into Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site for a ritual sacrifice. Police said on Thursday that two Jewish minors intended “to cause provocations”… Continue Reading →
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report on Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election will be released on Thursday, providing the first public look at the findings of an inquiry… Read more » The post FOCUS: Release of Long-Awaited Mueller… Continue Reading →
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is cautiously turning up the heat after his unsuccessful summit with President Trump in Hanoi two months ago. Returning to military optics for the… Read more » The post ANALYSIS: Kim, Returning to Military… Continue Reading →
Federal authorities said Wednesday they have charged 60 people, including a doctor accused of trading drugs for sex and another of prescribing to his Facebook friends, for their roles in illegally prescribing and distributing millions of pills containing opioids and… Continue Reading →
Talmudo Beyado is a dictionary that uses a whole new approach to defining words in the Gemara. The dictionary has a compilation of every moderately hard word on every page of the Gemara and it lists them in the order… Continue Reading →
German prosecutors have charged a 92-year-old former concentration camp guard with being an accessory to murder, in what will be one of the last-ever cases against Nazi-era war crimes. Hamburg… Read more » The post German Nazi Camp Guard, 92,… Continue Reading →
Bnei Brak has the highest rate of public transportation use in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, and to better serve the area, the Transportation Ministry will build a new central… Read more » The post New Housing, Transportation Hubs for… Continue Reading →
Many Americans aren’t ready to clear President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation, with a new poll showing slightly more want Congress to keep investigating than to set aside its probes after a special counsel’s report left open the question… Continue Reading →
Global shares erased this week’s gains on Thursday after weak manufacturing surveys from Asia and Europe stoked fears of a slowdown in global growth, adding to profit taking ahead of… Read more » The post Stocks Erase Week’s Gains After… Continue Reading →
Pesach marks the start of spring, but this year winter appears to be extending its stay – and that will further benefit the Kinneret, which so far this year has… Read more » The post Kinneret Continues to Rise as… Continue Reading →
The deadly attack at Columbine High School in 1999 seemed to usher in a new era of school shootings. Two decades later, polls consistently capture growing fears among American parents that their children face imminent danger whenever they go to… Continue Reading →
Many residents of Arab and Muslim countries are interested in developing closer ties with Israel, even if their governments are not, according to polls commissioned by the Foreign Ministry. Among… Read more » The post Poll Shows Residents of Arab… Continue Reading →
A Seder is to be held this year in the Warsaw ghetto for the first time in 76 years. On Erev Pesach 5703/1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising broke out. The… Read more » The post 76 Years After Uprising, Seder… Continue Reading →