Month July 2022
A court in Russia ruled Wednesday to keep a prominent opposition politician in custody pending an investigation and trial over his public criticism of Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. Ilya Yashin is one of the few opposition figures that haven’t… Continue Reading →
A US Secret Service member was detained by Israel Police and sent back to the US after becoming drunk in the Machane Yehudah shuk, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Ynet reported that a woman told the police that the agent… Continue Reading →
Working Americans have lost $3,400 in annual wages in the last 18 months due to soaring inflation, which set another 40-year high in June of 9.1%, according to a Heritage Foundation expert. E.J. Antoni, who works as a researcher at… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Elkana Hendler, the son of the Rosh Yeshiva of Ramle Rabbi Aryeh Hendler and a grandson of Yeshivat Hakotel’s Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yeshayahu Hadari Zts’l, passed away Wednesday after a sudden heart attack. Elkana was 22 years… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The Supreme Court ruling that reversed Roe versus Wade brought to light another philosophical debate. The debate was between Ben Shapiro, a yarmulka-clad media personality and Rabbi Shmuel Bloom, a former vice president of… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A CNN report Wednesday claimed that Saudi Arabia may allow all commercial flights to and from Israel to overfly its airspace and also permit direct charter flights to and from Israel for Muslims participating in the annual haj… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Today, the 15th of Tammuz is the yahrtzeit of Rabbeinu Chaim Ben-Attar (1696-1743), better known as the “Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh.” He was one the greatest biblical commentators of the Acharonim, a mekubal, a Talmudic… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A request for a 28 million NIS class action suit against the Chinuch Atzmai organization was submitted to the Tel Aviv Labor Court a year ago. The petition to authorize the class action suit was submitted by… Continue Reading →
Exciting: Brand new Post High school Yeshiva in Israel starting this Year, an affordable warm and loving Yeshiva for boys who need more excitement in Yiddishkeit. Is your son not motivated enough about praying or learning? Maybe he couldn’t handle… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 7:30 amMincha: 8:10 pmMaariv: 8:25 pm Mr. Yisroel BassiurHusband Mrs. Rochel Greenbaum-StechlerDaughter Will be sitting in Teaneck, New Jersey at 497 Forest Avenue 7/15-7/19. Rebbetzin Esther MachlisDaughter Mrs. Sara LederDaughter Will be sitting in Baltimore, Maryland… Continue Reading →
A new poll from Yahoo News/YouGov finds that a stunningly low percentage of Americans – 18% – want President Joe Biden to run for a second term in office, marking the lowest such number yet. Even worse for the president,… Continue Reading →
Former President Barack Obama sent a blistering email to ex-White House doctor Ronny Jackson after the now-representative took a “cheap shot” against President Joe Biden’s cognitive health. Jackson, who is now a Republican representative for Texas in the House, has… Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 7-Eleven convenience store chain offered $100,000 Wednesday leading to the arrest and conviction of a masked gunman suspected of robbing six Southern California stores, killing two people and wounding three others. A clerk, Matthew Hirsch,… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — This year 65 girls were not accepted to high school. It was only 3 years ago that I was one of those “unlucky” ones who didn’t get accepted anywhere. As my friends and neighbors began to… Continue Reading →
Thanks to the efforts of Rabbi Pesach Lerner, chairman of Eretz Hakodesh, the status quo at the Kosel Hamaarovi did not become the subject of a resolution by the board of governors of the JAFI-Jewish Agency for Israel, a powerful… Continue Reading →
A Twitter employee told the House committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol that he spent a sleepless night on Jan. 5, 2021, worrying that people might die the next day during a rally that former President Donald Trump… Continue Reading →
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — As video taken inside Robb Elementary School puts in full view the bewildering inaction by law enforcement during the May slaughter of 19 children and two teachers, some in Uvalde are shouting: Will police face consequences?… Continue Reading →
A spate of wildfires is scorching parts of Europe, with firefighters battling blazes in Portugal, Spain and southern France on Wednesday amid an unusual heat wave that authorities are linking to climate change. In Portugal, Civil Protection commander André Fernandes… Continue Reading →
HEARTBREAKING NEWS: Shmuel Rubin, a cheder Rebbi from Beitar and beloved father of eight children has tragically passed on at the young age of 58 after an intense and unexpected six week month battle with liver cancer. Shmuel’s wife Yenta… Continue Reading →
After a successful pilot run this past Shabbos, a sit-down Shalosh Seudos will be available for mispallelim at the Kosel each week, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation announced on Wednesday. In recent years, volunteers have offered basic food, including challah… Continue Reading →
In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his White House lawyers to a plan, eventually discarded, to seize states’ voting machines and then, in a last ditch effort to salvage his presidency, summoned supporters to march on… Continue Reading →