Month January 2020

Iran is preparing a site for launching a satellite, a government minister said on Monday, highlighting a program the United States says is a cover for ballistic missile development. “Yes,… Read more » The post Iran Prepares Site for Satellite… Continue Reading →

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that he is withdrawing his bid for Knesset immunity from prosecution on corruption charges, just hours before parliamentary proceedings were set to begin.… Read more » The post Netanyanu Withdraws Bid for Parliamentary… Continue Reading →

The State Department Correspondents’ Association says the State Department has denied a National Public Radio reporter a seat aboard Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s plane for an upcoming trip to Europe and Central Asia. The decision came a few days… Continue Reading →

U.S. stocks fell sharply Monday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down by more than 450 points, as investors grappled with fresh worries about the spread of a new virus in China that threatens global economic growth. The sell-off gave… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — A “terrible mistake” in cropping an African climate activist out of a photo sent to customers of The Associated Press prompted soul-searching and some tense staff conversations over issues of racism and inclusion Monday at the… Continue Reading →

On Monday, Trump’s attorneys, including high-profile lawyers Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz, launched a historical, legal and political attack on the entire impeachment process. They said there was no basis… Read more » The post Lawyers Defend Trump for Second… Continue Reading →

It’s been released for publication that 22 members of an alleged smuggling ring were arrested on Monday, including six IDF soldiers and 16 Palestinian and Israeli Arabs, two of whom are Israeli citizens. The Palestinians and Israeli Arabs are accused… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (JTA) — Earlier this month, Deborah Lauter stood in a Holocaust museum among students of color from a Brooklyn public school trying to explain why the museum is relevant to the current rise in anti-Semitism in their borough…. Continue Reading →

Two weeks after the arrest of Aharon Ramati, suspected of running a cult, the police investigation is not yet completed and the prosecution is requesting to carry out further investigations, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. The court acceded to the request and… Continue Reading →

A Hamas spy operation that took advantage of Gazan residents with Israeli mothers to gain access to Israel to gather intelligence for terror purposes was uncovered by Israeli security forces, the Shin Bet stated on Monday. Indictments were filed on… Continue Reading →

CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — Coroner’s officials worked to recover victims’ remains Monday from the hillside outside Los Angeles where a helicopter carrying former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and eight others crashed in a wreck that aviation experts said may have… Continue Reading →

Elizabeth Warren is fighting to regain momentum in the turbulent tussle for the Democratic presidential nomination amid lingering questions about her consistency and ability to defeat President Donald Trump. Warren was considered a leader in the crowded race through the… Continue Reading →

The body of an Israeli hiker who has been missing since Sunday was found Monday morning in New Zealand’s Whanganui River, a Mako report said. The 24-year-old Israeli man was hiking with a group of fellow Israelis and as they… Continue Reading →

LONDON (JTA) – Kate Middleton, the duchess of Kensington, has released photo portraits she took of two Holocaust survivors with their grandchildren. The photos released on Monday, marked as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, are part of a project of the… Continue Reading →

The chief of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Monday that it will retaliate against American and Israeli commanders if the U.S. continues to threaten top Iranian generals. “I warn them to withdraw from this field,” Gen. Hossein Salami told state… Continue Reading →

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Over 30,000 people have been displaced by heavy rains in southeast Brazil that also killed 54 people and left 18 missing. The storms in recent days caused floods and landslides, submerging entire neighborhoods and sending… Continue Reading →

Baba Sali zt”l We (Yad L’Achim) have arranged for a special tefillah by grandsons of the Baba Sali & Talmidei Chachamim of Yad L’Achim, to take place Thursday, 4th of Shevat, at the hilula (yahrtzeit) of the holy BABA SALI,… Continue Reading →

It’s a prayer of passion. Of feeling. And of yearning. Vezakeini. A woman stands in front of the flickering candles on Erev Shabbos, slowly reciting the words, one by one, a prayer from her heart. For her children. For children… Continue Reading →

Israel’s reception of world leaders last week for the World Holocaust Forum involved much more than meeting leaders at the airport with flower bouquets and laying out the red carpet. Israel’s cyber defense system was hard at work fighting hundreds… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON – (AP-THE CONVERSATION) The legal and constitutional battles sparked by President Trump’s behavior could affect how the U.S. government works for generations, long after the impeachment trial is over. After the last Senate staffer turns out the lights, major… Continue Reading →

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