Month May 2021
Congress approved legislation Tuesday intended to curtail a striking rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, sending President Joe Biden a bipartisan denunciation of the spate of brutal attacks that have proliferated during coronavirus pandemic. The bill,… Continue Reading →
The Biden administration said Tuesday it will repeal changes made by the Trump administration to a law aimed at stopping banks from discriminating against racial minorities and the poor. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, one of the… Continue Reading →
Climate change-triggered sea level rise added $8 billion in damage during 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, one of nation’s costliest weather disasters, a new study said. During Sandy — a late fall freak combination of a hurricane and other storms that struck… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Guardian of the Walls operation entered its second week Monday after Hamas continued to rain missiles on targets in Israel. The IDF reported Monday morning that over 3,150 missiles had been fired towards Israel, of which… Continue Reading →
Our Simcha would not be complete without the participation of all our family members. B’Chasdei Hashem, we have arranged plenty of seating for the ENTIRE MISHPACHAS MIR to join in the Simcha. Reserve your seat today! The post Join… Continue Reading →
A 32-year-old woman was killed in a drive-by shooting in Brooklyn while attending an outdoor vigil for an earlier shooting victim, police said. Shalimar Birkett, of Queens, was shot in the head at 11 p.m. Monday by someone who fired… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The two victims in the bleacher collapse at the new Karlin center in Givat Zeev are 13-year-old Meir Gloiberman and 23-year-old Mordechai Binyamin Rubinstein, both of Beitar Illit. The two were brought to burial after the Shavuos… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A woman came to an Arco AM/PM convenience store in Norwalk,Los Angeles County claiming that she had won a $26 million dollar lottery jackpot. However the woman said that the ticket she had received from the… Continue Reading →
Arab rioters opened fire at IDF soldiers near Beit El and the northern entrance to Ramallah on Tuesday afternoon. Two soldiers, a male and a female, were shot in their legs in a violent riot by hundreds of Palestinians. One… Continue Reading →
Minutes after an IDF soldier was lightly injured by a mortar fire launched by Hamas early Tuesday afternoon, a new mortar barrage hit the Eshkol region of southern Israel, killing two and wounding nine. The residential units of foreign workers… Continue Reading →
An Arab terrorist was killed by his own bomb on Tuesday morning as he attempted to carry out a bombing attack on IDF soldiers in Chevron. The terrorist approached the Jewish section of Chevron armed with weapons and a number… Continue Reading →
Seven Border Police officers were wounded in a ramming terror attack at a police checkpoint in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Sunday, Erev Shavous, at 5 p.m. Two of the policemen were moderately injured and the others… Continue Reading →
The Biden administration distanced itself Monday from growing calls by Democrats and others for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers as fighting entered a second week. The United States, Israel’s top ally, also blocked for the third… Continue Reading →
Lod resident Yigal Yehoshua, z’l, who was critically injured six days ago by Arab rioters in the mixed Israeli-Arab city of Lod, passed away on Monday. Yehoshua, 56, was on his way home on Tuesday evening when Arabs hurled rocks… Continue Reading →
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip continued to launch rockets at Israel over Shavuos, firing about 250 rockets into southern Israel on Monday. Fortunately, about 90% of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome and about 25 rockets fell… Continue Reading →
LONDON (JNS) – A rabbi was assaulted near London in what members of his community say appears not to have been an antisemitic attack. Two young men gave the rabbi, Rafi Goodwin, cuts on his head an around his eyes… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com We, in the Torah community, have had a series of tragedies of late that are truly heart-wrenching. Rachmana litzlan 45 korbanos in Meron with many injured. 2 korbanos in Stolin, with many injured. And… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com We, in the Torah community, have had a series of tragedies of late that are truly heart-wrenching. Rachmana litzlan 45 korbanos in Meron with many injured. 2 korbanos in Stolin, with many injured. And… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the Israel Defense Force’s strike on a Gaza high rise that housed the Associated Press and Al Jazeera bureaus, saying that it hosted a terrorist intelligence office. “An intelligence office for… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli medics say two people are dead and more than 150 injured after a bleacher collapsed at an uncompleted West Bank synagogue. The bleacher was packed with ultra-Orthodox worshippers and collapsed during prayers at the beginning of… Continue Reading →
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