Month March 2022
An Israeli man in his 30s was lightly wounded Shabbos morning after he had been stabbed by a knife-wielding Palestinian in Yerushalayim. The terrorist, a Palestinian man in his early… Read more » The post Jewish Man Wounded in Yerushalayim… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) – At least 600,000 Israelis are expected to attend the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in Bnei Brak, Israel Police assessed ahead of the funeral, slated to begin at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday. Following a situational assessment on… Continue Reading →
China’s health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years driven by a surge in the… Read more » The post China Reports First COVID-19 Deaths… Continue Reading →
Israel on Friday urged the United States not to remove Iran’s Revolutionary Guards from its foreign terrorist organization blacklist in exchange for “empty promises.” The United States was considering such… Read more » The post Israel Urges U.S. Not to… Continue Reading →
Russian forces pushed deeper into Ukraine’s besieged and battered port city of Mariupol on Saturday, where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more… Read more » The post Russians Push Deeper Into Mariupol… Continue Reading →
Israeli police are anticipating around one million participants on Sunday at the levayah of Sar HaTorah Hagaon Chaim Kanievsky, zt”l, who was niftar on Friday afternoon at 94. The levayah… Read more » The post Hundreds of Thousands Expected to… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Thousands of refugees are coming to Eretz Yisroel from Ukraine, and many are registering their children in Shuvu schools for a Torah education, even though the Israeli government is directing many Ukrainian children to public schools. It is only… Continue Reading →
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Saturday expanding the state’s Opioid Settlement Board from 19 members to 21 members. Hochul also appointed two women to the board, which is responsible for helping distribute settlement money from opioid manufacturers and… Continue Reading →
A former Virginia police officer pleaded guilty on Friday to storming the U.S. Capitol with another former officer who is scheduled to be tried next month on charges related to the riot. Former Rocky Mount, Virginia, police officer Jacob Fracker,… Continue Reading →
When HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein was informed about the petira of HGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, zt’l, on Erev Shabbos, he was silent for several long moments while sighing deeply, ‘oiy, oiy.” HaRav Edelstein then said: “How many zechuyos he had,… Continue Reading →
During the last moments of the life of the Gadol HaDor, HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, zt’l, his grandsons, Reb Yanky Kanievsky and HaRav Gedalia Honisberg, were in in the room with him and noticed that his oxygen level had decreased… Continue Reading →
Tens of thousands of people in Bnei Brak began streaming to the home of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, zt’l, on Friday upon hearing of his collapse and davened fervently outside his home while resuscitation techniques were taking place. After the… Continue Reading →
HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein instructed principals of Talmudei Torah who consulted with him on Motzei Shabbos that all boys aged 9 and above throughout Eretz Yisrael should attend the levaya of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl on Sunday. The Rosh… Continue Reading →
U.S. oil field services companies Halliburton Co. and Schlumberger said they are suspending operations in Russia as the Houston, Texas-based businesses respond to U.S. sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Halliburton announced Friday that it suspended future business in the… Continue Reading →
A second Amazon warehouse in the New York City borough of Staten Island will have a union election in April, the National Labor Relations Board said Friday. In-person voting will be held at the facility known as LDJ5 every day… Continue Reading →
Bnei Brak Rabbanim HaGaon HaRav Chaim Yitzchak Issac Landau, HaGaon HaRav Shevach Tzvi Rosenblatt, HaGaon HaRav Tzvi Weber and HaGaon HaRav Massoud Ben-Shimon on Motzei Shabbos announced a bitul melacha at the time of the levaya of HaGaon HaRav Chaim… Continue Reading →
PDF FOR SHABBAS READING Doing shlichus was always a given for me. My wife and I both come from Chabad backgrounds – my wife was born while her parents were on shlichus in Manchester, and I went to Yeshiva in… Continue Reading →
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JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israel is the ninth happiest place in the world to live, according to this year’s World Happiness Report. The 158-page listing for 2022 was published on Friday. Israel is two spots higher than last year and five… Continue Reading →
Local humanitarian and educational projects championed by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) will receive a total of $3 million in modest but critical federal funding to boost health care, autism and food assistance services and to help schools expand educational programs… Continue Reading →