Month February 2021
Damage to a fan blade on an engine that failed on a United Airlines Boeing 777 flight is consistent with metal fatigue, based on a preliminary assessment, the chairman of… Read more » The post Damage to United Boeing 777… Continue Reading →
Police in Georgia stormed the headquarters of the country’s main opposition party and arrested its leader on Tuesday. The arrest of Nika Melia, head of the United National Movement, aggravates… Read more » The post Georgian Police Storm Opposition Office… Continue Reading →
An Iranian government newspaper warned on Tuesday that overly radical actions in the nuclear wrangling with the West may lead to the country’s isolation after Tehran ended snap inspections by… Read more » The post Iran Stops Snap Nuclear Inspections,… Continue Reading →
An 11-year-old girl with no pre-existing medical issues was hospitalized in serious condition in the pediatric ICU at Kaplan Hospital in Rechovot after contracting the coronavirus. She arrived at the hospital on Motzei Shabbos with severe respiratory difficulties. “At around… Continue Reading →
Interview with JNS Senior Editor in Chief, Jonathan Tobin, discussing the Biden Administration’s mixed signals on Iran’s nuclear program, and what message are they sending to Israel and the Middle East by not calling Israel’s Prime Minister, as they resume… Continue Reading →
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a handful of cases related to the 2020 election, including disputes from Pennsylvania that had deeply divided the justices just before the election. The cases the justices rejected involved election challenges filed by former… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn man was arrested in Florida in the brazen daylight armed robbery of a SoHo luxury store after authorities say he bragged about the heist on social media, authorities said Monday as the defendant was… Continue Reading →
In an unusual and surprising move on Monday, a Haifa court placed a seven-day gag order on the investigation of the massive oil spill that has polluted the majority of Israel’s beaches in what is believed to be the worst… Continue Reading →
TLS has been inundated with messages the past few days about many potholes developing around town. Potholes particularly develop in the winter season due to the roads contracting and cracking, allowing water to seep in. Today alone, there were dozens… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – The growing risks of cyber attacks faced by all organizations and individuals around the world is a reflection of the fact that “for the first time in history, crime is being led by the smartest people in… Continue Reading →
Yisroel Gurion is a young 31 year old lubavitch father with 3 young children, with serious mental illness that began several years ago out of the blue. The broken system put him in prison instead of a hospital leaving him… Continue Reading →
The United States is prepared to return to the Iran nuclear deal if Tehran shows “strict compliance” with it, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday. It’s a new sign of Washington’s ambition to revive the deal rejected by… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times So what will Purim be like AFTER Moshiach comes? There is a famous Yalkut Shimoni (#944) referring to the time of Moshiach that states, “All the holidays are destined to… Continue Reading →
The Health Ministry’s Priority Committee recommended on Motzei Shabbos that those who have recovered from the coronavirus be vaccinated with a single dose of the vaccine. The committee also recommended that the dose be administered at least three months after… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JTA) – CPAC, the conservative political conference, has canceled the appearance of a speaker who has made several derogatory comments about Jews on social media. Young Pharaoh, an online commentator and promoter of conspiracy theories, was set to speak… Continue Reading →
By: Sandy Eller Often, the best education happens outside the classroom. Understanding that professionals frequently face halachic and ethical dilemmas in the workplace, Agudas Yisrael of America’s Torah Projects Commission held the first in a series of virtual conferences for… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – One of the world’s oldest scrolls of Esther was recently gifted to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, the library’s blog announced on Monday. The scroll, dating from medieval times, was a gift from long-standing supporters… Continue Reading →
The post Hatzalah Purim Advisory appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: We Are Orphans, Without a Father Jewish Organizations Release Guidelines for Future Reopening of Shuls Despite Closed Borders, Argentina to Fly in Shochtim, Mashgichim to Certify Kosher Meat… Continue Reading →
An open letter calling for Blue and White leader and Defense Minister Benny Gantz to resign from running in the March election was published in Israeli newspapers on Monday morning, signed by 130 senior defense officials and former army commanders…. Continue Reading →
BOSTON (JTA) – Henryk Ross risked his life to take surreptitious photographs of the brutal life in Poland’s Lodz Ghetto. Now a cache of nearly 50 of those photos taken by the Jewish prisoner has been donated to the Museum… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s attorney general nominee, vowed Monday to prioritize combating extremist violence with an initial focus on the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol as he sought to assure lawmakers that the Justice Department would… Continue Reading →