Month November 2019
Richard Spencer, who was fired as Navy secretary for his handling of a SEAL war crimes case championed by President Donald Trump, wrote that the commander in chief “has very little understanding” of how the American military works. Read more… Continue Reading →
A Palestinian man was convicted on Thursday of three acts of homicide in terror attacks on December 2018 that led to the deaths of two soldiers and an unborn baby.… Read more » The post Terrorist Convicted of Murders in… Continue Reading →
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised on Thursday to allocate 40 million shekels ($11.5 million) for security and emergency response stations in Yehuda and Shomron and the Jordan Valley. In… Read more » The post Netanyahu Pledges Security Funding for… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to spend time with U.S. troops on Thanksgiving. Trump arrived at Bagram Air Field shortly after 8:30 p.m. local time and… Read more » The post Trump in Afghanistan for Surprise… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to spend time with U.S. troops on Thanksgiving. Trump arrived at Bagram Air Field shortly after 8:30 p.m. local time and spent more than two-and-a-half hours on the ground. Read more… Continue Reading →
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to spend time with U.S. troops on Thanksgiving. Trump arrived at Bagram Air Field shortly after 8:30 p.m. local time and spent more than two-and-a-half… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian terror organization Hamas cancelled its weekly March of Return demonstration on the border with Gaza. It is the third week in a row that the demonstrations, which have taken place every week for more than… Continue Reading →
More than 50,000 people in East Texas remained under a mandatory evacuation order Thursday as a fire continued to burn at a chemical plant, one day after two massive explosions… Read more » The post Fire Continues at Texas Plant;… Continue Reading →
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Security forces in Iraq shot dead 27 anti-government protesters in a 24-hour period, amid spiraling violence in the capital and the country’s south, as Iran condemned the burning of its consulate. Read more on Yeshiva World News
PARIS (AP) — Dozens of French activists blocked an Amazon warehouse south of Paris in a Black Friday-inspired protest, amid increased opposition to the post-Thanksgiving sales phenomenon that has seen a group of French lawmakers push to ban it altogether…. Continue Reading →
The Jerusalem District Prosecutor has filed an indictment against a daycare center caretaker who was working in a facilty in the Ramot neighborhood. The woman is charged with physical abuse and negligence, including leaving a 1-year-old child alone, without any… Continue Reading →
The directors of yeshivos ketanos are concerned with planned budgetary cuts for public institutions under the Ministry of Social Welfare, which provides the budgets for dozens of yeshivos with dormitories for talmidim. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Bolivia plans to renew diplomatic ties with Israel, the country’s interim foreign minister Karen Longaric said on Thursday in a press briefing. Longaric took office on November 14, following the… Read more » The post Bolivia Announces Renewal of Ties… Continue Reading →
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT) Some call it the great MO versus Yeshivish Community Divide. However, the question has not yet entered the list of “Shidduch questions” that are generally posed to parents of children who have now entered… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — The beloved balloons flew, but lower than usual, in a windy Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade after an anxious weather watch. Wind had threatened to ground the giant inflated characters. But officials announced less than an hour… Continue Reading →
Israel has corrected a message sent by the ambassador to Myanmar wishing the country “Good Luck” ahead of World Court hearings on accusations the state committed genocide against Rohingya Muslims,… Read more » The post Israel Retracts ‘Good Luck’ Message… Continue Reading →
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has praised Britain’s chief rabbi and expressed support for an article he wrote this week that offered scathing criticism of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s record on anti-Semitism. Read more on Yeshiva World News
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