Month July 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother to his eldest children, died accidentally from blunt impact injuries to her torso, the New York City medical examiner’s office said Friday. Police had… Continue Reading →
YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of Hagaon HaRav Shmuel Yehuda Levin ZT”L, the Rosh Yeshiva of Telshe Chicago. He was 63. The Rosh Yeshiva suffered a massive heart attack at his home on Moztei Shabbos. Chicago… Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two men were arrested Friday in connection with a series of robberies at Southern California 7-Eleven stores that left two people dead and three wounded. Police said the men are suspected in another killing and other… Continue Reading →
MIDDLE EAST (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Following President Biden’s trip to Israel this week, his official @POTUS Twitter account posted a tweet, affirming his support for Israel’s security. Strangely, that tweet has been deleted, for no apparent reason. The… Continue Reading →
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, was captured Friday by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and returning… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — The British government held an emergency response meeting Saturday to plan for record high temperatures next week after weather authorities issued their first-ever “red” warning for extreme heat. The alert covers large parts of England on Monday… Continue Reading →
The House committee investigating the Capitol riot has subpoenaed the Secret Service for text messages agents reportedly deleted around Jan. 6, 2021, as the panel probes Donald Trump’s actions at the time of the deadly siege. The committee chairman, Rep…. Continue Reading →
Russian officials visited an airfield in central Iran at least twice in recent weeks to view weapons-capable drones it is looking to acquire to use in its war against Ukraine, the White House said. The Biden administration released the intelligence… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Sunday, the 18th of Tammuz is when we observe the 17th of Tammuz Fast Day! Let’s get some background. But first, some crucial times: In New York City, the fast begins at dawn –… Continue Reading →
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat on Saturday downplayed talk of normalization with Israel after the kingdom opened its airspace to Israeli commercial flights and hammered out a complex deal over islands in the Red Sea that required… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden seemed to bow Friday to Sen. Joe Manchin’s demand for a slimmed-down economic package, telling Democrats to quickly push the election-year measure through Congress so families could “sleep easier” and enjoy the health care savings it proposes…. Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It was featured last Thursday on the Jimmy Kimmel Show that was hosted by Mark Roper. The goal of the show was to see if anyone would help out another human being when the… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 100,000 monkeypox vaccine doses are being sent to states in the next few days, and several million more are on order in the months ahead, U.S. health officials said Friday. They also acknowledged the… Continue Reading →
All are asked to daven and say Tehillim for the Rachmastrivka Rebbe, who has been transferred to Cleveland in order to stabilize his condition. The rebbe, Rav Chai Yitzchok Isaac Twersky, is a son of Rav Yochanan Twersky of Rachmastrivka and a son-in-law of Rav… Continue Reading →
The Georgia prosecutor investigating potential criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election is considering requesting that former President Donald Trump testify under oath to a grand jury, while several Georgia Republicans already subpoenaed as part of the probe have received… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military attacked what it said was a Hamas military site in the Gaza Strip early Saturday in response to a pair of rocket attacks overnight. The exchange that took place hours after U.S. President Joe… Continue Reading →
(AP)- Two children are among the six people who died in a Montana pileup after a Friday evening dust storm caused blackout conditions on Interstate 90, a major route in both Montana and the Western U.S. Montana Highway Patrol Sgt…. Continue Reading →
Four years, five months and four days after Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, his trial for the deadliest U.S. mass shooting to reach a jury begins Monday with opening statements. Delayed by the COVID-19… Continue Reading →
The IDF attacked a Hamas underground military site in the Gaza Strip early Shabbos morning in response to four rocket attacks overnight, only hours after U.S. President Joe Biden concluded a visit to Israel. “IDF fighter jets struck a Hamas… Continue Reading →
In contradiction to statements by President Joe Biden, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Farhan bin Faisal denied that the kingdom’s decision to open its airspace to all Israeli flights was a step toward normalizing ties with Israel. In a press… Continue Reading →
In contradiction to statements by President Joe Biden, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Farhan bin Faisal denied that the kingdom’s decision to open its airspace to all Israeli flights was a step toward normalizing ties with Israel. In a press… Continue Reading →