Month January 2021

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is likely to protect against a more infectious variant of the virus, which was discovered in Britain and has spread around the… Read more » The post Study Shows: Pfizer Vaccine Effective… Continue Reading →

Israel Police on Wednesday removed a warning sign that was put up at the entrance to Bat Ayin, the Gush Etzion community where 16-year-old Ahuvia Sandak, z”l, was from. The… Read more » The post Police Remove ‘You Murdered Our… Continue Reading →

Global shares were mostly higher ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration as U.S. president Wednesday, though worries about surging coronavirus cases sapped the Japanese market’s early gains. France’s CAC 40 added… Read more » The post Global Shares Rise on Hopes… Continue Reading →

The coldest day of this winter season so far has brought thunderstorms across the country and snowfall in Israel’s north. A cold weather front hit the country earlier this week,… Read more » The post Coldest Day of Winter Brings… Continue Reading →

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the incoming U.S. administration on Wednesday to return to a 2015 nuclear agreement and lift sanctions on Tehran, while welcoming the end of “tyrant” President… Read more » The post Iran’s Rouhani Says ‘Ball in… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump granted clemency to former White House aide Steve Bannon as part of a wave of pardons and commutations issued in his final hours in office, but did… Read more » The post Trump Pardons Ex-Aide Bannon But… Continue Reading →

Democrat Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, assuming the helm of a country beset by deep political divides and battered… Read more » The post Biden to Assume Presidency Amid… Continue Reading →

The Health Ministry said Wednesday that over 8,000 new daily coronavirus cases were recorded Tuesday, while the number of ventilated patients has reached a record high. The Health Ministry said… Read more » The post Over 8,000 New COVID-19 Cases;… Continue Reading →

Lottery players will have another shot at the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history after Tuesday night’s drawing didn’t turn up a winner. The Mega Millions top prize climbed to an… Read more » The post Mega Millions Jackpot Now $970M;… Continue Reading →

President Trump on Tuesday granted clemency to 143 people, including well-connected celebrities and nonviolent drug offenders – but did not preemptively pardon himself or his family. Two of those pardoned of most interest to the Jewish community are Eli Weinstein… Continue Reading →

President Trump has issued a pardon to George Gilmore, the former leader of the Ocean County Republican party. Gilmore was convicted and sentenced in early 2020 to serve one year and one day in prison over tax and loan fraud… Continue Reading →

Lakewood resident Eli Weinstien is being released from prison shortly, after having his sentence commuted by President Trump. Weinstein served for approximately eight years out of a lengthy sentence. Sources tell TLS this pardon was in the works for an… Continue Reading →

Shia Weinstock grew up watching his father suffer from diabetes-related ulcer wounds that wouldn’t heal. As an adult, he pushed against the norm and created a formula that, he says, “works even if you scoff at natural remedies.” His childhood… Continue Reading →

A middle age man, a patient in a psychiatric hospital, sits in the back of a room where his doctor is explaining to a judge and to several lawyers why he needs to be given psychiatric drugs against his will…. Continue Reading →

Having grown up in a small city in Ontario, Canada, Dr. Heather Ferguson hadn’t heard much about Jews at all. “I knew that there were Jews, and I knew that every religion had different sects, but I didn’t know anything… Continue Reading →

Most newlyweds would love to have their own car, but on our kollel budget, leasing a new car or even owning a secondhand one was simply not affordable. Whenever we wanted to go somewhere, we’d try to borrow a car… Continue Reading →

This world became a poorer place on the 20th of Teves, when my beloved father-in-law, Yisrael Yitzchok Cohen of Toronto, was summoned to the next one.  Poorer not only because he was a talmid chacham, a Gerrer chasid who was… Continue Reading →

One evening, during that in-between time after camp ends and school hasn’t started yet, our family spontaneously scheduled a get-together at a local restaurant. I was talking to my mother on the phone trying to figure out whom I could… Continue Reading →

The Penguin Book of Interviews, a rather fascinating anthology of interviews ranging from Joseph Stalin to Sigmund Freud, is of particular appeal for anyone who has interest in the art of the interview. But the interview that is perhaps the… Continue Reading →

Families that are dealing with a member who has an eating disorder need help to make it through the difficult process of treatment. For many, Rabbi Dovid Dewick of Magen Avrohom is the person they turn to for assistance with… Continue Reading →