Month September 2021
I have no idea where my family picked up this recipe, but it is one of those oldies but goodies. A dense, almost brownie-like cookie with the perfect amount of marshmallow in the center is the most amazing creation. Be… Continue Reading →
I never thought I’d say, “Thank you, Hashem, for making my hands tingle.” Now, I say it with real joy. “Thank you, because the discomfort is what brought me to the doctor, which led to a test—which didn’t explain why… Continue Reading →
Twenty years after the crime, the first few cracks are appearing in the classified cover-up of Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks. I predict Congress will soon be re-examining the FBI’s knowledge of Saudi governmental participation. The key question will… Continue Reading →
Picturing Russian political prisoner Alexei Navalny forced to sit before a screen to watch state propaganda, as he recently recounted to The New York Times, conjured two similar scenes from my memory. One was a painting reproduced in “Scattered Among… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday defended the ultra-low interest rate policies he has pursued since the pandemic decimated the economy more than 18 months ago. But he acknowledged inflation has stayed higher for longer than… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan is heading to Cairo on Wednesday for talks with Egyptian government officials about rising tensions between Israel and Hamas. The Biden administration is leaning heavily on Egypt, which has long played a… Continue Reading →
The spread of COVID-19 vaccination requirements across the U.S. hasn’t had the desired effect so far, with the number of Americans getting their first shots plunging in recent weeks. And some experts worry that the move to dispense boosters could… Continue Reading →
New York State Attorney General Letitia James strongly hinted she plans to run for governor next year during a speech delivered Wednesday to a group of influential political players. James… Read more » The post NY Attorney General Letitia James… Continue Reading →
Rabbi Moshe Dovid Tendler, son in law of Hagaon Harav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, was niftar on Shemini Atzeres. He was 95 years old. Rabbi Tendler was a Rav of the Community… Read more » The post BD’E – Rabbi Moshe Dovid… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has encouraged religious-minded people to get a COVID-19 vaccine by saying it is God’s will that they get inoculated. A lawyer argued before a federal appeals court Wednesday that the Democrat’s… Continue Reading →
Former New York City Health Commissioner Mary Bassett will become the top health official in the state as it seeks to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Bassett will replace outgoing state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker,… Continue Reading →
A New York man was arrested for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol after he was spotted on surveillance video, authorities said. Richard Watrous, 59, was charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building… Continue Reading →
A key Senate official dealt a second blow to immigration advocates who are hoping to secure a path to citizenship in the Democrats’ social spending bill, ruling Wednesday that a… Read more » The post Senate Parliamentarian Rejects Democrats’ Plan… Continue Reading →
[By Rabbi Yair Hoffman] Sukkos is over, and Bereishis has begun once agin. It is time to take seriously the Mitzvah – the obligation rather, of doing the weekly Torah portion with the Tzibbur. The purpose of this article is… Continue Reading →
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A battle between gangs in a prison killed at least 116 people and injured 80 in what authorities are calling the worst penitentiary massacre in Ecuador’s history. At least five dead were reported beheaded, officials said… Continue Reading →
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal jury in Seattle on Wednesday convicted a leader of a neo-Nazi campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in three states. The jury deliberated for about 90 minutes Wednesday following a two-day trial before convicting… Continue Reading →
Nurses and hundreds of other staff members will soon begin wearing panic buttons at a Missouri hospital where assaults on workers tripled after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cox Medical Center Branson is using grant money to add buttons… Continue Reading →
Selene San Felice said she often questioned how or why she survived the shooting that left five others dead at a Maryland newspaper. Montana Winters Geimer described the grievous loss she and the community suffered when her mother, longtime local… Continue Reading →
Republican U.S. lawmakers tried on Wednesday to pick apart President Joe Biden’s defense of his withdrawal from Afghanistan as they attacked his judgment and honesty during a second day of… Read more » The post ‘Unmitigated Disaster’: Republicans Attack Biden’s… Continue Reading →
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, one of the most infamous mass slaughters of World War II. Babi Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is where nearly 34,000… Continue Reading →
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Moshe David Tendler Z”L. He was 95. Rav Tendler was the son in law of the late Posek Hador, Hagaon HaRav Moshe Feinstein ZATZAL. He was the Rov of the… Continue Reading →