Month January 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is confronting the political risk that comes with grand ambition. As one of his first acts, Biden offered a sweeping immigration overhaul last week that would provide a path to U.S. citizenship for the… Continue Reading →
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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s coronavirus project manager Nachman Ash told Army Radio last week that the first dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is less effective than the pharmaceutical giant had suggested. “Many people have been infected between the first… Continue Reading →
Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved a deal to upgrade ties with Morocco, the fourth Arab country to forge relations with Israel in a parting foreign policy push by the former… Read more » The post Cabinet Approves Deal Upgrading Ties… Continue Reading →
Ben* contacted me to be upgraded in his Torah studies. Highly intelligent, Ben had been a BT (Baal teshuva) for several years. Although he had attended yeshiva in Israel for Baalei Teshuva, he knew he was still missing some of… Continue Reading →
Israel on Sunday decided to ban incoming and outgoing passenger flights from Monday at midnight (local time) in order to stop the spread of COVID-19 and new coronavirus strains. The… Read more » The post Israel Bans Passenger Flights to… Continue Reading →
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Armed pirates attacked a Turkish cargo ship off the West African coast, kidnapping 15 sailors and killing one of them, officials said Sunday as Turkey sought to recover the captured crew. The Liberian-flagged M/V Mozart was… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com They arrived on Thursday before Shabbos. Seventy young “special needs” children under the care of the Yaldeinu Organization, with seventy counselors in tow – that’s one on one for those who didn’t catch that,… Continue Reading →
Straining under record numbers of COVID-19 patients, hundreds of the nation’s intensive care units are running out of space and supplies and competing to hire temporary traveling nurses at soaring… Read more » The post 2 in 5 Americans Live… Continue Reading →
A weeklong strike at New York City’s Hunts Point Produce Market, which provides 60% of the city’s produce, ended in workers receiving a pay raise and more money toward health… Read more » The post Strike at NYC Produce Market… Continue Reading →
After violent clashes between police and protesters in Bnei Brak over the past few days, including a violent altercation on Thursday night with several undercover detectives working to enforce public… Read more » The post Chareidi Leaders: Opposed to Violence… Continue Reading →
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — At least one person was injured after a police car plowed through a crowd of pedestrians Saturday night who were watching a downtown street race, the Tacoma News-Tribune reported. The incident happened just before 7 p.m…. Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JTA) – On Jan. 18, 1945, the Nazis at Auschwitz forced David Leitner and about 66,000 other camp prisoners to march through the snow. Underfed, exhausted and wearing nothing but his camp uniform, Leitner, only 14 at the time,… Continue Reading →
House Democrats have proposed permanently and significantly expanding the child tax credit to provide thousands more to families in the form of monthly payments from the IRS, similar to the… Read more » The post Biden, Democrats Propose Family Aid;… Continue Reading →
As with anything in life, when many people contribute toward one goal, it places less of a strain on each individual. So, what do you get when thousands of Jewish families across the United States join forces? Lower healthcare costs… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is pushing for the closure of Ben-Gurion Airport for at least two weeks in order to prevent the entry of additional mutated coronavirus variants into Israel, Channel 12 News reported. The development follows the announcement by… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clashed with Israeli police in two major cities on Sunday, as authorities faced new difficulties in enforcing coronavirus restrictions in the country’s religious communities. The clashes occurred in Jerusalem and Ashdod as police attempted to… Continue Reading →
The United Arab Emirates on Sunday approved establishing an embassy in Tel Aviv in Israel, the UAE government said on its Twitter account, citing a Cabinet decision. The UAE and… Read more » The post UAE Cabinet Approves Establishment of… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — During the months leading up to the November elections, former president Donald Trump claimed numerous times that mail-in ballots could increase the risk of fraud. For example, in August 2020 Trump tweeted that “the Democrats are… Continue Reading →
After months of solicitations and Requests For Proposals, the Lakewood public school district has successfully obtained a large number of devices for its students, ameliorating the “digital divide” that exists throughout the United States as to students who have access to… Continue Reading →
After months of solicitations and Requests For Proposals, the Lakewood public school district has successfully obtained a large number of devices for its students, ameliorating the “digital divide” that exists throughout the United States as to students who have access to… Continue Reading →