Month February 2021
This photo was taken on Purim night at the home of the Gadol HaDor, Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, as he heard Megilas Esther. The post PHOTO: Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky By Megilah On Purim Night appeared first on The Yeshiva… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS/Israel21C)- When you think of Israel, castles probably aren’t the first thing that come to mind—which is a shame, considering that the country boasts some truly magnificent ones. Some date back thousands of years, while others are more recent,… Continue Reading →
Facebook, following in Google’s footsteps, says it plans to invest $1 billion to “support the news industry” over the next three years. The social networking giant, which has been tussling with Australia over a law that would make social platforms… Continue Reading →
Under fire from Defense Minister Benny Gantz and others, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has suspended the transfer of coronavirus vaccines to other countries, according to media reports on Thursday… Read more » The post Netanyahu Halts Deliveries of Covid… Continue Reading →
Delivery companies UPS and FedEx are scaling up vaccine distribution by as much as 40%, with more possibly coming if the FDA approves the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine for… Read more » The post UPS and FedEx Ramping Up… Continue Reading →
Israel’s defense minister on Thursday called for an immediate halt of plans to ship surplus coronavirus vaccines to a group of friendly nations, suggesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using… Read more » The post Israeli DM Moves to Halt… Continue Reading →
The acting U.S. Capitol Police chief was pressed to explain Thursday why the agency hadn’t been prepared to fend off a violent mob of insurrectionists, including white supremacists, who were… Read more » The post Chief: Capitol Assault Much Bigger… Continue Reading →
On Sunday morning, the Claims Conference initiated a new project in partnership with United Hatzalah that will orchestrate a national operation with the goal of making sure that all 11,000 homebound Holocaust survivors living in Israel are able to go… Continue Reading →
VILNIUS (JTA) – Construction was documented near a mass grave of Jewish Lithuanian Holocaust victims on privately owned land that the government had promised to reclaim. Ruta Vanagaite, a well-known author who has written extensively on the Holocaust, earlier this… Continue Reading →
Qatar on Thursday pledged $60 million to build a natural gas pipeline from Israel into the Gaza Strip that will end the energy crisis that has helped cripple the Gaza… Read more » The post Qatar Says to Fund $60… Continue Reading →
A recently uncovered top secret report revealed that the Saudi Arabian assassins that killed dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Turkey hastily left the country in private… Read more » The post Report: Khashoggi Assassins Used Crown… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS/Rabbi David Baruch Lau) – During my visits to coronavirus wards at hospitals across Israel, I encountered a most worrying statistic. All of the hospitalized were relatively young people who had not been vaccinated. A few minutes after one… Continue Reading →
In the outer Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, there has long been a debate about whether the neighborhood is halachicly part of Jerusalem, with Purim celebrated on the 15th, on Shushan Purim, or whether it’s halachicly separate from Jerusalem, with Purim… Continue Reading →
10K Batay Yisroel is a project rooted in a horrific accident and the reaction of two ordinary– yet extraordinary– families who transcended that tragedy and transformed it into an incredible organization. Yisroel Levin a”h and Elisheva Kaplan a”h, were engaged… Continue Reading →
By: Rabbi Abe Friedman Law Enforcement Liaison/Community Activist No, not a good idea at all, not for the person behind the bars, nor for his family, and neither for those trying to help. Every year, early Purim afternoon, the phones… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israel’s Health Ministry on Wednesday announced a temporary ban on the sale of fish from Mediterranean Sea, due to the massive tar spill last weekend along the country’s shores. Although so far there is no indication of… Continue Reading →
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Germany’s foreign minister on Wednesday urged Iran to accept diplomatic overtures coming from the West in order to preserve the 2015 nuclear accord. Heiko Maas accused Tehran of further undermining the transparency it is required to show under the 2015… Continue Reading →
L’chvoid all the Purim Shluchei Mitzvah, As the events of this past year has caused all of us to alter our plans, traveling this Purim to collect for the Mosdos Hatorah and Chesed are unfortunately no different. As someone living… Continue Reading →
Republicans rallied solidly Wednesday against Democrats’ proposed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill as lawmakers awaited a decision by the Senate’s parliamentarian that could bolster or potentially kill a pivotal provision… Read more » The post GOP Rallies Solidly Against Democrats’… Continue Reading →