Month January 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden had his first call with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, raising concerns about the arrest of opposition figure Alexei Navalny while pressing the Russian president on his nation’s involvement in a massive cyberespionage campaign and… Continue Reading →
The pension funds of New York City employees and New York City public school teachers have voted to divest $4 billion worth f funding from fossil fuel and polluting industries.… Read more » The post NYC Pension Funds Divest from… Continue Reading →
A long, snaking path is mapped out on the floor of the exhibit hall at the Atlantic City Convention Center, ready to guide more than 2,000 people a day as they arrive to get their COVID-19 vaccines. On Tuesday morning,… Continue Reading →
The Israeli military said on Tuesday cows which crossed from Lebanon would be returned, after cattle herders from a Lebanese border village accused Israeli soldiers of taking the animals which… Read more » The post IDF Will Return Cows That… Continue Reading →
A horrible fire broke out in Airmont destroying a family’s home. B”H everyone is ok. We ask you to help as much as you can to help them buy clothing, housewares, furniture, and rental expense to help them get back… Continue Reading →
Israeli medical experts were said on Tuesday to be stymied by the failure of the current lockdown to reduce the coronavirus infection rate. The Health Ministry reported that 74 more… Read more » The post Lockdown Not Working As Expected… Continue Reading →
Israel’s High Court has said there must be a stop to arbitrary demands for Ethiopian-Israeli citizens to produce identification cards without a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, The Jerusalem Post… Read more » The post Court Disallows Arbitrary ID Demand… Continue Reading →
Iran must end its provocations and return to the terms of a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers if it expects the United States to rejoin the accord, but even… Read more » The post France Warns Iran Needs to… Continue Reading →
A Hatzalah volunteer found himself “under the gun” in a new way Monday night when two males attempted to mug him in Crown Heights. The volunteer had just parked his… Read more » The post Attempted Mugging of Hatzalah Member… Continue Reading →
Easing off a stalemate, the Senate moved forward Tuesday with a power-sharing agreement in the evenly-split chamber after Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that Senate Democrats preserve… Read more » The post Senate Filibuster Fight Cools, but… Continue Reading →
New York’s Democratic-led Assembly plans to pass legislation Tuesday to help workers and small businesses financially survive the coronavirus pandemic. Workers could collect unemployment insurance while working part time, small… Read more » The post NY Assembly to Pass Bills… Continue Reading →
A major winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the middle of the country while another system blanketed parts of the Southwest with snow, disrupting travel for a second consecutive day Tuesday and shuttering many… Continue Reading →
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday it was restoring relations with the Palestinians and renewing aid to Palestinian refugees, a reversal of the Trump administration’s cutoff and a key element of its new support for… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – A 12-branch copper candelabra kindled on holidays by Jews in 18th-century Italy. Sheets of prayers handwritten in Hebrew by an unknown scribe in 15th-century Spain. An oven for baking matzah from 19th-century Portugal. A Passover Haggadah in… Continue Reading →
Internet users the northeast U.S. reported widespread outages Tuesday. Verizon reported via Twitter that a fiber was cut in Brooklyn, although it’s not clear if that issue is responsible for… Read more » The post Widespread Internet Outages hit Northeast… Continue Reading →
BROOKLYN (AP) – Users across the northeast U.S. reported widespread internet outages Tuesday. Verizon reported a fiber cut in Brooklyn via Twitter, although it’s not clear if that issue is responsible for the entire outage. The internet service provider didn’t… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — There are no warning sirens, nor a rush for shelter. No neighborhoods of collapsed rubble with bodies buried inside from Nazi Germany bombardment. It is quieter than all that. But the United Kingdom has now suffered its… Continue Reading →
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected twice as many firearms per million passengers screened at airport security checkpoints nationwide in 2020 compared to 2019, and at a significantly higher rate than any other year since the agency’s inception. Throughout 2020,… Continue Reading →
The Biden administration will be reopening Palestinian Authority diplomatic offices in Washington, DC that were shuttered by former President Donald Trump. Biden’s acting envoy to the United Nations, Richard Mills,… Read more » The post U.S. to Reopen Palestinian Mission… Continue Reading →
Montreal’s public health department has issued an apology to members of the charedi community for its contradictory messaging regarding gatherings, which lead to the community being fined for gatherings in… Read more » The post Montreal Health Officials Apologize to… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com If someone were keeping tabs on these things, it is perhaps the Parnassah Segulah that has gone most viral of all other Segulos. Numerous Torah internet sites link to the parsha of the Mahn… Continue Reading →