Month January 2022
Britain warned Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that its allies would stand together to fight for democracy against dictatorships that it said were more… Read more » The post Britain Warns Putin and Xi:… Continue Reading →
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke on the phone with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday, as the two countries continue to increase their dialogue. The Turkish minister called Lapid… Read more » The post Lapid Speaks With Turkish Counterpart… Continue Reading →
Iran, China and Russia held their third joint naval drills in the northern Indian Ocean on Friday, state media reported. Navies from Iran‘s armed forces and Revolutionary Guards are taking… Read more » The post Iran, China and Russia Hold… Continue Reading →
Israeli fighter jets took part in a large drill over the Mediterranean that included practicing mid-air refueling, according to a report in a Saudi-run website Thursday. The unverified report in… Read more » The post Report: Israeli Fighter Jets Hold… Continue Reading →
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Friday he was isolating after testing positive for COVID-19 and was in good health. “I feel good because I am vaccinated. In the coming… Read more » The post DM Gantz Isolates at Home… Continue Reading →
As winter season reaches its climax in Israel, with temperatures falling below freezing in some areas, many Israelis find themselves stuck without electricity, unable to warm their homes and prepare… Read more » The post Thousands of Israelis Without Electricity… Continue Reading →
The top diplomats of Russia and the United States are holding crucial talks on Friday as a weeks-long standoff over Ukraine teeters on the cusp of a pivotal and potentially… Read more » The post Top U.S., Russia Diplomats Talk… Continue Reading →
When the coronavirus pandemic was first declared, Spaniards were ordered to stay home for more than three months. For weeks, they were not allowed outside even for exercise. Children were banned from playgrounds, and the economy virtually stopped. But officials… Continue Reading →
What qualities are the most important for a modern, progressive woman to possess? On Thursday, Mars provided its customers with an exciting new answer: her shoes, of course. Alongside an announcement of its “global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels… Continue Reading →
Download PDF for Shabbas Table Reading Years ago, my wife and I were set to go on shlichus to Sumy, Ukraine, a small city near the Russian border. When we arrived, my family stayed by the shluchim in Kharkov while… Continue Reading →
Over 70,000 recovering Israelis who had not received the coronavirus vaccines contracted the disease again since the beginning of the year, Ynet reports. According to Israeli ministry data, there were only rare cases reported of infections in those who had… Continue Reading →
A British man conducted Internet searches for influential rabbis, an imprisoned terrorist and gun and pawnshops in the days before he took congregants hostage inside a Texas synagogue, according to… Read more » The post Texas Hostage-Taker Searched Internet for… Continue Reading →
The U.S. Treasury Department levied new sanctions Thursday against four Ukrainian officials, including two current members of parliament who administration officials say are part of a Russian influence effort to set the pretext for further invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions… Continue Reading →
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is discussing a scaled-back law focused on safeguarding election results and protecting election officials from harassment following Democrats’ twin defeats on a voting-rights bill.… Read more » The post Bipartisan U.S. Senate Group Discusses… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans for the first time disapproving of his handling of the presidency in the face of an unrelenting pandemic and roaring inflation, according to… Continue Reading →
Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman (yaakovyosefreinman@gmail.com) is a famous talmid chacham, historian and author. This week he discusses: ɚ where we see that the people did teshuvah at Sinai. ɚ how God gave Moshe an opening to deflect the sin of… Continue Reading →
An Israeli delegation on Wednesday met with top Sudanese military officials in Khartoum, according to a Sudanese military official and Israeli reports. The Sudanese official said the delegation, including officials from the Mossad spy agency, met with Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan,… Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is promising statewide coordination as law enforcement and prosecutors go after thieves who have been raiding cargo containers aboard trains nearing downtown Los Angeles for months, leaving the tracks blanketed with discarded… Continue Reading →
The Georgia prosecutor looking into possible attempts to interfere in the 2020 general election by former President Donald Trump and others has asked for a special grand jury to aid the investigation. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Thursday… Continue Reading →
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists kept the Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds to midnight for the third year in a row. The clock, which metaphorically counts the time until the end of the world, remains at the closest point… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON, DC (VINnews) — Two members of the radical “Squad” are linked with a Muslim group that has rallied for the release of terrorist Aafia Siddiqui. Siddiqui is the convicted terrorist known as “Lady al-Qaeda”, whom Malik Akram, the Texas… Continue Reading →