Month January 2022

Shas chairman Aryeh Deri on Sunday morning submitted his resignation from the Knesset to Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy. His resignation goes into effect in another 48 hours. Deri’s resignation comes a month after he signed a plea deal with Attorney… Continue Reading →

Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected a British claim that the Kremlin is seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration, and that former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is a potential candidate. Britain’s Foreign Office on Saturday also named… Continue Reading →

The iconic Jeep Wrangler, the go-anywhere 4×4 that was born in 1941 as a U.S. military vehicle, has enlisted into today’s growing army of hybrids. Amazingly, 80 years later, there’s… Read more » The post AUTO REVIEW: Wrangler Goes Green,… Continue Reading →

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid held the coalition’s latest official meeting with a senior Palestinian Authority official on Sunday, according to Ynet. Lapid reportedly sat down with Hussein Al-Sheikh, who heads… Read more » The post Lapid Meets Senior PA Official… Continue Reading →

The Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers on Sunday tried to distance themselves from a protest staged by a pro-Iranian group that harshly attacked Saudi Arabia over its role in Yemen’s civil… Read more » The post Hamas Plays Down Pro-Iran Demonstration… Continue Reading →

If all sedans looked as sleek as the Karma GS-6, most of us would still be driving cars, not SUVs. But they don’t. That makes the GS-6’s very long, very… Read more » The post AUTO REVIEW: The Karma GS-6… Continue Reading →

In his raspy smoker’s voice, the middle-aged Ukrainian soldier urged a visitor to hurry through a stretch of muddy trench that traversed an open clearing. Gesturing eastward, he warned of… Read more » The post In Eastern Ukraine, Trench Warfare… Continue Reading →

A Lakewood business received this bill on Friday, mixed between several other $100 bills.  

California would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent under a proposal introduced Friday by a state senator who said youngsters “deserve the right to protect themselves” against infectious disease. Currently in California, minors… Continue Reading →

Israel is preparing to launch a major tree-planting campaign—not in Bedouin areas of the Negev, but in the cities. As a means of providing shade and fighting climate change, the… Read more » The post Israeli Cities Get a Shady… Continue Reading →

Councilmember Kalman Yeger has proposed legislature to the New York City Council that will dismiss any violation of any coronavirus-related executive order, as well as refund any fines previously incurred… Read more » The post Council Proposes Bill to Cancel… Continue Reading →

Some conservatives are taking aim at policies that allow doctors to consider race as a risk factor when allocating scarce COVID-19 treatments, saying the protocols discriminate against white people. The wave of infections brought on by the omicron variant and… Continue Reading →

Police fired water cannons and thick clouds of tear gas in Brussels on Sunday to disperse protesters demonstrating against COVID-19 vaccinations and restrictions that aim to curb the fast-spreading omicron… Read more » The post Water Cannon, Tear Gas at… Continue Reading →

As the world braces for a likely Russian invasion of Ukraine, Israeli officials met on Sunday to discuss possible evacuation of Jewish communities under threat in the region, Haaretz reported.… Read more » The post Israel Dusts Off Evacuation Plans… Continue Reading →

Preliminary data from medical centers in Israel, Britain and the United States indicate that omicron causes fewer cases of pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS) in children, and that the cases… Read more » The post Initial Report: Omicron Causes Less… Continue Reading →

Watch: Riveting expedition reveals the heart, soul and stories behind the Mishnah Yomi renaissance Call it a resurgence. Call it a renaissance. Call it a revolution. However you refer to it, know this: It’s changing lives all over the world…. Continue Reading →

  A Jewish man was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after a car crash on I-78 East in Bethel Township. WFMZ reported that his car was rear-ended by… Read more » The post Jewish Man in the Hospital… Continue Reading →

The weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday approved an increase in the state’s participation in Yad Vashem’s 2022 budget. The 29 million-shekel budgetary addition was proposed by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett,… Read more » The post Cabinet Ups Contribution to Yad… Continue Reading →