Month January 2022
Jury selection began Thursday in the federal trial for three former Minneapolis police officers who are charged with violating George Floyd’s constitutional rights while fellow Officer Derek Chauvin used his knee to pin the Black man to the street. J…. Continue Reading →
Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg accused Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan of presenting a misleadingly negative view of the ministry’s relations with the Palestinian Authority. “In his speech to the… Read more » The post Environment Minister Corrects UN Ambassador… Continue Reading →
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been receiving medical advice from an Israeli doctor, Ynet reported on Thursday. The doctor was identified as Prof. Itzhak Shapira, deputy director-general of Sourasky… Read more » The post Report: Erdogan Being Treated by… Continue Reading →
An ex-employee was charged with arson after setting a Lakewood business on fire. Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on January 19, 2022, Jorge Euxaque-Ballesteros, 25, of Toms River, was charged with Aggravated Arson in violation of N.J.S.A…. Continue Reading →
Israeli senior government officials have reached a decision to end mandatory quarantine for students exposed to COVID, Israeli media reported on Thursday evening. Students who are exposed to COVID and are asymptomatic will no longer be required to isolate. Instead,… Continue Reading →
BERLIN (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Thursday that there would be a “swift, severe” response from the United States and its allies if Russia sends military forces into Ukraine. Blinken’s comments in Berlin appeared to be… Continue Reading →
WEST VIRGINIA (VINnews) — Live TV is always unpredictable, but this story takes the cake. Viewers were shocked Wednesday when a reporter was hit by a car, smack in the middle of a live report. Even more amazing, after a… Continue Reading →
A young Lakewood student was injured when she banged her head in a school bus window, parents say. The eight-year old girl was reportedly on her way home from school yesterday when she banged her head in the window while… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon says it plans to open a clothing store in a Southern California mall later this year, a first for the online behemoth and a fresh challenge for already struggling traditional retailers. Amazon said Thursday that… Continue Reading →
Police shot and killed an armed man who was causing a disturbance at a train station near the San Francisco airport Thursday after he allegedly ignored their orders and continued advancing toward them, an airport spokesman said. Spokesman Doug Yakel… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Yes, it seems that it is one of those things that go around, that actually does bring in significant money. But the halachic and hashkafic issues that are possibly involved may be dividing a… Continue Reading →
The post Dvar Torah on Parashas Yisro by Harav Aharon Kahn, shlita appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Harav Aharon Yaakov Brandwein, Strettiner Rebbe, zt”l Horror at Desecration of Tziyun of Harav Shlomo of Karlin, Hy”d, zy”a The… Continue Reading →
[Video below.] Eretz Hakodesh, the chareidi faction in the World Zionist Congress, has revealed, in a stunning exposé, that in an informational video distributed by the Reform movement, its leaders fully admit that despite the struggle that they are waging… Continue Reading →
Researchers on Thursday reported the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs. This time around, surgeons in Alabama transplanted a pig’s kidneys into a brain-dead man —… Continue Reading →
Textbooks in the United Arab Emirates have been updated to reflect normalization with Israel, except on maps of the Mideast where Israel still does not exist. According to a report… Read more » The post UAE Normalizes Textbooks But Not… Continue Reading →
The New Jersey State Police Troop “D” Criminal Investigation Office is seeking the public’s assistance with an arson investigation that occurred on the Garden State Parkway in Ocean County. On Wednesday, January 19, at approximately 5:00 PM, troopers responded to… Continue Reading →
KENTUCKY (JNS) – A top Presbyterian reverend on Sunday accused Israel of enslaving the Palestinians, and American Jews of not doing enough to stop it. “The continued occupation in Palestine/Israel is 21st-century slavery and should be abolished immediately,” said Rev…. Continue Reading →
A year into his first term as president, more than a third of all Americans say that Joe Biden is failing as commander-in-chief, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll. The survey found that 37% of Americans give the president… Continue Reading →
The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riots is asking Ivanka Trump to voluntarily cooperate with its probe. The committee sent a letter Thursday requesting a meeting with Ivanka Trump, who served as an adviser to her father, in early… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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… Continue Reading →