Month August 2021
Swedish payments firm Klarna said on Wednesday it would continue to enter new markets, as it reported a jump in transactions using its platform in the second quarter. The “buy… Read more » The post Klarna Bets on Further Growth… Continue Reading →
Alta Fixsler’s parents have appealed to Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) to allow their two-year-old daughter to come home and spend the rest of her life with her family.… Read more » The post Fixsler Parents: Let Alta Come… Continue Reading →
British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said on Wednesday that the deadline for evacuating people from Afghanistan was up to the last minute of this month. Raab was asked after a… Read more » The post U.K.: Deadline for Afghanistan Evacuation… Continue Reading →
Protection against COVID-19 offered by two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines begins to fade within six months, underscoring the need for booster shots, according to researchers… Read more » The post U.K. Researchers: COVID Jab Protection… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita was once asked an interesting question by a woman who was in need of surgery (Derech Sicha p, 174): She inquired of the Rav: “May I delay my surgery so… Continue Reading →
Rebbetzin Sara Finkel, mother of the late Mirrer Rosh Yeshivah Harav Noson Tzvi Finkel, zt”l, was niftar at her home in Gush Shemonim, aged over 100. The levayah is scheduled… Read more » The post BDE Rebbetzin Sara Finkel, a”h… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Torah world mourns the passing of Rebbetzin Sara Finkel, mother of Mir Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel Zts’l, at the age of 101. Rebbetzin Finkel was lucid until her last day but on Tuesday night… Continue Reading →
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rebbitzen Sara Finkel A”H, who was the mother of the late Mir Yerushalayim Rosh Hayeshiva, Hagaon HaRav Noson Tzvi, ZATZAL. She was approximately 101. The Rebbitzen, a’h, was clear-headed until her… Continue Reading →
A frisson of fright is sent up the spine of every sensitive Jew when Unesaneh Tokef is intoned on the Yomim Nora’im. Because of the image it conjures of the Dayan uMochiach, the One “Who judges and proves and knows… Continue Reading →
The two barely discernible dots on the video showing the ascent of an American military plane from Kabul were horrifying emblems of the desperation of Afghans after the Taliban takeover of their country. Because the dots were people, falling from… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two members of Congress flew unannounced into Kabul airport in the middle of the ongoing chaotic evacuation Tuesday, stunning State Department and U.S. military personnel who had to divert resources to provide security and information to the… Continue Reading →
Last week, Israel’s Yediot Achranot reported the dramatic testimony of a doctor who fights for the lives of coronavirus patients – and his attack on anti-vaxxers. “If only I could invite the anti-vaxxers for a shift with me to see… Continue Reading →
All of Israel’s COVID patients currently attached to ECMO machines are under age 60 and unvaccinated, Yediot Achranot reported. Additionally, all coronavirus patients who died after being attached to an ECMO machine during the current fourth COVID wave were unvaccinated,… Continue Reading →
SEATTLE (AP) — An organizer of a neo-Nazi campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in three states was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after apologizing for what he did and saying he’s a changed man. Cameron Shea… Continue Reading →
A VinNews Editorial America is a wonderful country and we should all be praying for the safety of American citizens still stuck in Afghanistan. Although many errors have been made, President Biden can still turn it around. This is the… Continue Reading →
With Kathy Hochul officially taking the reins as New York’s governor, a historic number of women are currently leading U.S. states — a push towards equality and representation that could continue into next year’s midterm elections. There are now nine… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — From Walt Disney World to Goldman Sachs, a flurry of private and public employers are requiring workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after the federal government gave full approval to the Pfizer shot. And the number is… Continue Reading →
MADRID (JTA) — Bernardo Pulido spent over $29,000 on genealogical documentation, Jewish heritage certificates, attorney fees and trips to Spain to prove his Sephardic heritage. But last month, like so many others attempting to gain Spanish citizenship through a 2015… Continue Reading →
Rosh Hashanah is fast approaching. Please, hear the cry of your brothers and sisters in Israel and send financial help! The money raised will be distributed before Yom Tov. Every donation to this cause will bring you countless zechusim and… Continue Reading →
Sharply divided leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized democracies clashed Tuesday over U.S. President Joe Biden’s insistence on withdrawing from Afghanistan by August 31 in the face of the Taliban takeover of the country. “The president conveyed that our… Continue Reading →
Twenty Six bachurim returning on a flight from Ukraine were stricken with serious food poisoning after they landed Tuesday evening in New York City. A large group of Visnitz chassidim of… Read more » The post Twenty Six Bachurim Returning From… Continue Reading →