Month December 2020
Britain on Wednesday authorized emergency use of a second COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first country to greenlight an easy-to-handle shot that its developers hope will become the “vaccine for the… Read more » The post U.K. Approves Use of 2nd… Continue Reading →
Syrian state news reported early Wednesday that air defenses intercepted Israeli missiles over targets Damascus and in the country’s southwest. According to a Syrian military source, rockets were fired from… Read more » The post Report: Israeli Missiles Hit Targets… Continue Reading →
Jonathan and Esther Pollard landed in Israel early Wednesday morning a month after the US Parole Commission lifted restrictions on him and 35 years after he was arrested for spying for Israel. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met the Pollards at… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Berach Steinfeld In Bereishis 47:28 the posuk tells us how long Yaakov lived in Mitzrayim. It tells us he lived for 17 years in Mitzrayim and his total lifetime was 147 years. The Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh questions, why is it so important to know how long Yaakov lived in Mitzrayim? The Ramban on Bereishis 26:5 says… Continue Reading →
Words cannot express the sadness and emptiness I felt when I heard the news of the passing of my dear friend Abe “Avrumi” Wolfson. Nonetheless, I wanted to write a few words about one of the people whose presence in… Continue Reading →
A week after Purim, Shira Alexander felt mildly sick. “I was coughing and had difficulty breathing for around ten days,” she told me. An energetic 34-year-old resident of Gateshead in the UK, she quickly regained what seemed to be perfect… Continue Reading →
If there were a prize for the most audacious and successful prank of the year—maybe even of all time—Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny’s phone call should get it. The vocal critic and political opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin… Continue Reading →
This past Thursday morning, arguments erupted between passengers returning to Israel and Health Ministry officials stationed at Ben Gurion International Airport. “Shame on you! You should learn from Dubai how to treat people!” one man shouted. Similar scenes repeated themselves… Continue Reading →
Can it be that we parents may unknowingly be impeding our children’s abilities to form strong relationships later in life? This thought came to me after speaking to numerous parents and young adults themselves in the shidduch parshah. Stories of… Continue Reading →
Don’t skip this soup! It’s divine! I teach it often, and to my students’ surprise, they love it! I know, these are ingredients that are new, and chickpea soup sounds strange, but it’s really, really delicious. The chickpeas are creamy… Continue Reading →
On a muggy evening in late September (fall offering no respite from the stifling heat of the previous months; airless and oppressive, the physical universe both mirrored and intensified our surreal sense of having been hurled into Dante’s Inferno), my… Continue Reading →
On the outside, Netta Marrom looks like your average, gentle religious person whom some people might underestimate. That he is still living in the same Tel Aviv neighborhood in which he grew up certainly contributes to that misconception. But underestimate… Continue Reading →
Every time she woke up with the swelling, I felt a niggling unease. Something told me we were on the wrong track. I just didn’t know how to get on the right one. Two years ago, my daughter Devorie, who… Continue Reading →
Because every family needs a dairy dinner night! This is a classic Italian eggplant Parmesan, much like lasagna but with slices of eggplant taking the place of pasta. With multiple layers of breaded and fried eggplant, pasta sauce, and loads… Continue Reading →
John A. Catsimatidis (born September 7, 1948), the billionaire owner of Red Apple Group, a real estate and aviation company, and New York-based radio station 770 WABC, has formed an exploratory committee for a 2021 New York City mayoral bid…. Continue Reading →
Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, 41, passed away this evening due to complications from COVID-19, his campaign manager Andrew Bautsch said. Letlow, a Republican, was admitted into a Monroe Hospital on December 19 after testing positive for the coronavirus and was… Continue Reading →
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Luke Letlow, Louisiana’s incoming Republican member of the U.S. House, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being sworn into office. He was 41. Letlow spokesman Andrew Bautsch confirmed the congressman-elect’s… Continue Reading →
British officials are considering tougher coronavirus restrictions as the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients surpasses the first peak of the outbreak in the spring. Authorities are blaming a new, more transmissible variant of the virus, first identified in southeast England,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Jonathan Pollard finally arrived home in Israel, more than 3 decades after being arrested for spying for Israel. Pollard flew, with his wife Esther, in a private jet from newark Airport in New Jersey. The Pollards were… Continue Reading →
At the age of 39, Moshe Hogeg has made millions of dollars trading in cryptocurrency, bought one of Israel’s most prominent soccer teams and brought in a wealthy Emirati sheikh as his new co-owner. Now comes what may be his… Continue Reading →
Neha loved the hymns that filled her church with music. But she lost the chance to sing them last year when, at the age of 14, she was forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam and married to a 45-year-old man… Continue Reading →