Month June 2022
NEW YORK (JNS) – If he isn’t already, Rabbi Ari Sitnik will soon be the most-seen rabbi in the history of the internet, all because of a single video. The Brazil-born Sitnik, 52, appears at the beginning of Drake’s new… Continue Reading →
Last year, as my son prepared to board the coach bus taking him to summer camp, I kissed him goodbye and asked if there was anything I could help him with. He looked at me and shyly asked for a… Continue Reading →
The Rav gave them words of Chizuk before dancing with them and their friends. The post VIDEO: Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen Celebrates Siyum with Minyan Shelanu Boys appeared first on The Lakewood Scoop.
The Knesset plenum on Wednesday passed in second reading a motion to disperse, with 74 Knesset members voting in favor and five against. The motion will now return to the House Committee ahead of a third reading, which will require… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Wednesday evening to the members of his Yamina party that he does not intend to run in the next election. Bennett will remain in the government after the Knesset dissolves and serve as alternate… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the U.S. will significantly increase its military presence in Europe for the long haul, including by establishing its first permanent presence in Poland, to bolster regional security after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Meeting with… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said there’s “no guarantee” the central bank can tame runaway inflation without hurting the job market. Speaking Wednesday at a European Central Bank forum in Sintra, Portugal, Powell repeated his hope that… Continue Reading →
Indirect negotiations between Iran and the U.S. over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers will end Wednesday in Qatar, authorities in Tehran said. A semiofficial news agency reported the talks wouldn’t break a diplomatic deadlock over the accord. The… Continue Reading →
A newly discovered remote access trojan horse malware is compromising small office and home routers as part of targeting North American as well as European networks. Researchers from Lumen Black Lotus Labs reported the malware “grants the actor the ability… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel is airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings when they occur in daytime hours and a striking number of the network’s viewers have made clear they’d rather be doing something else. During two daytime… Continue Reading →
The U.S. economy shrank at a 1.6% annual pace in the first three months of the year, the government reported Wednesday in a slight downgrade from its previous estimate for January-March quarter. It was the first drop in gross domestic… Continue Reading →
Miami-area residents woke up to Disney-themed, antisemitic rhetoric littered across their yards. The bigoted flyers, placed in plastic bags, included Disney characters with blue Magen Davids stamped across their heads to represent Disney executives, whose names were provided under the… Continue Reading →
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts’ Jewish community is on edge after a mysterious pro-Palestine website launched earlier this month listing the names and addresses of scores of local institutions — a number of them Jewish — and calling to “dismantle” and… Continue Reading →
A rare Republican who supports abortion rights found success in Colorado in the first primary elections held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, while New York’s first female governor positioned herself to become a major voice in the… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Mrs. Perry AskalSister Friday 1-4 and Motzei Shabos
Thousands attended the wedding last Thursday for the son of HaRav Sholom Ber Sorotzkin, the Rosh Yeshiva of Ateres Shlomo kollel and Yeshiva network. In attendance were Admorim and Rabbonim, Roshei Yeshiva and askonim, and thousands of yeshiva alumni from… Continue Reading →
Ben & Jerry’s Israel will continue to sell ice cream throughout Israel, including in Yehudah and Shomron, Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever announced on Wednesday. According to an agreement signed earlier on Wednesday between Unilever and the Israeli Ben… Continue Reading →
The dramatic development in the case of missing teen Moishe Kleinerman reported on Tuesday began with a phone call on Monday, Kikar H’Shabbat reported, adding that further details of the phone call cannot be published due to the gag order… Continue Reading →
A date has been set for the final arguments on the motion for a new trial for SCHI founder Rabbi Osher Eisemann, TLS has learned. Last week, both sides submitted briefs, and the judge scheduled oral arguments – the final… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Nine months after she stepped into the job of New York governor as a relative unknown, Democrat Kathy Hochul easily locked up her party’s nomination Tuesday, setting her on an expected glide path to win the… Continue Reading →
NATO declared Russia the “most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace and security, as the military alliance met Wednesday to confront what NATO’s chief called the biggest security crisis since World War II. It also promised to “step… Continue Reading →