Month February 2022
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile into the sea off its eastern coast. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launch was made on Sunday morning but provided no… Continue Reading →
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ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines has suspended its codesharing partnership with Russian national airline Aeroflot following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and some Baltic and European nations announced the closure of their airspace to Russian carriers. Atlanta-based Delta on… Continue Reading →
MOSCOW (AP) — As Russian troops were closing in on the Ukrainian capital, more and more Russians spoke out Saturday against the invasion, even as the government’s official rhetoric grew increasingly harsher. Street protests, albeit small, resumed in the Russian… Continue Reading →
He was a gadol who lived and breathed Torah learning. A member of Eretz Yisrael’s Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah. A master educator who influenced literally thousands of talmidim, from pre-schoolers to respected mechanchim. He was part of a family that… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS executive Chris Licht, who is currently running Stephen Colbert’s late-night show after helping to build two news programs, is expected to become the new president of CNN replacing Jeff Zucker. Licht will be named as… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] CLICK HERE to watch the video from Harav R’ Moshe Weinberger Shlita. CLICK HERE TO DONATE! The Jewish community in Ukraine is in a state of chaos! Kehilas Beis Ahron V’yisroel of Kiev has fled to Medzhybizh in an… Continue Reading →
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Leading Republicans spent much of three days avoiding Donald Trump’s chief grievances or ignoring him altogether as they unified behind a midterm message designed to win back the voters the polarizing former president alienated while in… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – Some bars and liquor stores think they’ve found a potent way to punish Russia for invading Ukraine: They’re pulling Russian vodka off their shelves and promoting Ukrainian brands instead. “I woke up yesterday morning, and I… Continue Reading →
KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian president’s office said Russian forces blew up a gas pipeline in Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city. The State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection warned that the explosion, which it said looked like a… Continue Reading →
As news of war, invasion, evacuations, and military patrols reach the ears of ourselves and our children, it is expected that we and our young ones will have a variety of reactions. For some, there is a cataclysmic implication as… Continue Reading →
UKRAINE (JTA) – Four years ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was an actor on the humorous Ukrainian TV show “Servant of the People,” starring as an unlikely president of the Eastern European country. Now, he is at the center of the continent’s… Continue Reading →
When Volodymyr Zelenskyy was growing up in southeastern Ukraine, his Jewish family spoke Russian and his father once forbade the younger Zelenskyy from going abroad to study in Israel. Instead, Zelenskyy studied law at home. Upon graduation, he found a… Continue Reading →
A woman returning from work on Thursday night, February 24, was brutally attacked by a thief who hit her on her head numerous times with a hammer as he stole… Read more » The post Woman Viciously Attacked When Entering… Continue Reading →
The Russian TikTok video has it all: a cat, puppies and a pulsing background beat. It’s cute, watchable and hardly seems the stuff of state propaganda. In 2014, Russia flooded the internet with fake accounts pushing disinformation about its takeover… Continue Reading →
The Shiur will be taking place at Kollel Ner Avrohom, 104 Arbutus Drive, Lakewood. The Shiur will also be available on Zoom. Code Password:168485 Phone number 6465588656 Meeting ID:81790422045 Password:168485 Code Password:168485 The post 9:00-9:45 PM: Novi Shiur in… Continue Reading →
MEDYKA, Poland (AP) — Dragging suitcases and carrying children, tens of thousands of Ukrainians rushed to the borders Saturday as invading Russian troops pressed on with their march toward Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv. At least 150,000 people have fled Ukraine… Continue Reading →
Moscow may respond to Western sanctions by opting out of the last nuclear arms deal with the U.S., cutting diplomatic ties with Western nations and freezing their assets, a senior Russian official warned Saturday as Russia’s ties with the West… Continue Reading →
United Hatzalah’s Ukraine branch has been operating year-round since 2016 to protect the Jewish community in the cities of Uman, Odessa, and Kyiv. As Russia has started its invasion of Ukraine, we must support our volunteers on the ground, to… Continue Reading →
Fourteen people were shot before dawn Saturday morning at a hookah parlor and police said one man died and that two of those hit by gunfire suffered critical injuries. The shooting happened at about 3:15 a.m. and preliminary information indicated… Continue Reading →
VIENNA (AP) — In a significant shift, the German government said Saturday it will send weapons and other supplies directly to Ukraine, which is fighting to keep Russia from invading its capital city. Germany is also ready to also support… Continue Reading →