Month May 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Cairo on Wednesday, part of a Middle East tour aimed at shoring up a ceasefire that ended the worst fighting in years… Read more » The post Blinken Visits Cairo as U.S…. Continue Reading →

Belarus’s authoritarian president on Wednesday defended his action to divert a European flight that triggered bruising European Union sanctions and accused the West of waging a “hybrid war” to “strangle”… Read more » The post Belarusian Leader Defends His Action… Continue Reading →

The Network Contagion Research Institute, which advises American Jewish communities on security matters, said on Wednesday it recorded an 80% rise in anti-Semitic acts in the past month amid the… Read more » The post Report: Anti-Semitic Acts in U.S…. Continue Reading →

The European Union took on vaccine producer AstraZeneca in a Brussels court on Wednesday with the urgent demand that the company needs to make an immediate delivery of COVID-19 shots… Read more » The post EU Takes on AstraZeneca in… Continue Reading →

Israel will work together with the international community to weaken Hamas, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said in a meeting with U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominc Raab on Wednesday. “This is an… Read more » The post Ashkenazi to Raab: Israel, Int’l… Continue Reading →

The U.S. is working to reopen its consulate in Eastern Yerushalayim, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday evening during a meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.… Read more » The post U.S. Wants to Reopen Consulate… Continue Reading →

The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency called Iran‘s uranium enrichment program “very concerning” in an interview with the Financial Times published on Wednesday. Iran was enriching uranium… Read more » The post IAEA Head Calls Iran’s Nuclear… Continue Reading →

Three people were arrested early on Wednesday in an investigation into a cable car disaster in northern Italy that killed 14 people, including two children, Italian newswire ANSA reported, citing… Read more » The post Three People Arrested Over Italian… Continue Reading →

With just a week to go until the end of his mandate, Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid and Meretz have finalized a coalition agreement, a joint statement released Wednesday said. As… Read more » The post After Yisrael Beytenu, Yesh Atid… Continue Reading →

Polling stations opened on Wednesday across Syria in a presidential election that is set to usher Bashar al-Assad into a fourth term in office. The government says the election shows… Read more » The post Syrians Go to the Polls… Continue Reading →

President Joe Biden is expected to name former senior State Department official Tom Nides to serve as ambassador to Israel, according to a person familiar with the matter. Nides is… Read more » The post Source: Biden to Name Tom… Continue Reading →

As first aired on our WhatsApp Status, TLS has obtained exclusive footage showing this evening’s shooting in Lakewood. In the video, a crowd can be seen gathering between Ashley Avenue and MLK Drive, when a man pulls a gun and… Continue Reading →

The Crown Heights Jewish Community held a meeting with NYC Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams on Tuesday, where the highly influential community leaders threw their full support behind the candidate. Extremely credible sources tell YWN that there are some significant developments… Continue Reading →

On Isru Chag, May 19, Rav Dovid Hofstedter called me from the United States Capitol and asked me to participate via telephone in a meeting he was having with Donald John Bacon, the representative for Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district. He… Continue Reading →

When I met Aharon Belsky,* single and age 29, I took in at a glance his jeans and black T-shirt, his dot-sized yarmulke barely clinging to his mane of hair, and I promptly set him up with a friend-of-a-friend who… Continue Reading →

A friend of mine suggested that I share our medical saga with Ami readers, in the hope that it will help another mommy out there with a very unhappy baby! Our son was born a month early, and he shocked… Continue Reading →

The photos and videos are horrifying. A man beaten on the street in Times Square. Another man, in Germany, kicked and laughed at. Diners in Los Angeles being attacked. A man chased by cars on a Los Angeles street. Men… Continue Reading →

Not long ago, a young man walked into my house on a Sunday afternoon. He was coming to talk to me because I am a shadchan. I could see that Shimmy Mermelstein was a firecracker, larger than life, a real… Continue Reading →

“The sirens went off and people should have been running to the bomb shelters, but the Jews of Lod were too afraid and stayed home. They were afraid that if they would go outside, one of their Arab neighbors would… Continue Reading →

Two Fridays ago, as Jews in Tel Aviv and Ashkelon listened to the booms of Hamas rockets and Iron Dome interceptors over their heads, Democratic members of the US Congress fired rhetorical missiles at one another, as nine representatives defended… Continue Reading →

The self-described “future leaders of the Jewish community” in the US have spoken. Those would be the hundred or so non-Orthodox rabbinic (and cantorial) school students, “training to teach the Torah and lead the rituals that will hold our joy… Continue Reading →