Month August 2022
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Wednesday it has discharged four soldiers for attacking Palestinians without cause, after video circulated on social media showing them beating and kicking two detainees. The soldiers had stopped a Palestinian vehicle north of… Continue Reading →
The retiring Dr. Anthony Fauci is hoping you have memory loss, because he doesn’t want you remembering the fact that he pushed for nationwide shutdowns in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, he explicitly denies it ever… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his long-awaited plan to deliver on his campaign promise to provide $10,000 in debt cancellation for millions of Americans — and up to $10,000 more for those with the greatest financial need. Borrowers who… Continue Reading →
Tens of thousands of Jews from all walks of life streamed into Kiryas Joel Tuesday to mark the 43rd Yahrtzeit of the Satmar Rebbe, Reb Yoel Teitelbaum Zatzal, the founder of the Satmar Chasidic movement and namesake of the Satmar… Continue Reading →
Tens of thousands of Jews from all walks of life streamed into Kiryas Joel Tuesday to mark the 43rd Yahrtzeit of the Satmar Rebbe, Reb Yoel Teitelbaum Zatzal, the founder of the Satmar Chasidic movement and namesake of the Satmar… Continue Reading →
Uvalde’s embattled school police chief on Wednesday could become the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant response by hundreds of heavily armed law enforcement personnel during the May massacre at Robb Elementary School. The Uvalde Consolidated Independent… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – An Israeli kidnapped in Brazil was released unharmed hours later after his family agreed to pay a ransom, the Israeli Foreign Ministry revealed on Wednesday. According to the ministry, the Israeli was kidnapped on Tuesday evening along… Continue Reading →
Hello, My name is Nachman and I live in Yerushalayim. I supported my family, which grew to nine children, through my work as a Sofer. We owned our own apartment, 40 square meters, which was just about enough for us…. Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister called on President Joe Biden and Western powers to call off an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, saying that negotiators are letting Tehran manipulate the talks and that an agreement would reward Israel’s enemies…. Continue Reading →
Ukraine nervously braced for what President Volodymr Zelenskyy warned could be especially brutal Russian attacks Wednesday as the country observed its Independence Day — and marked the war’s six-month point — under conditions considered too dangerous to allow any major… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — In a cluster of contentious Democratic primaries Tuesday, two New York incumbents were ousted from the U.S. House after redistricting shuffled congressional districts in one of the nation’s largest liberal states. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a 15-term… Continue Reading →
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is headed to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the university’s schools of government and public health. De Blasio, a Democrat who served as mayor from from 2014 to 2021,… Continue Reading →
Millions of Americans were waiting to learn the fate of their federal student debt on Wednesday as President Joe Biden prepared to deliver on his campaign promise to provide up to $10,000 in debt cancellation. Details of the plan have… Continue Reading →
US National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said on Tuesday that US President Joe Biden understands Israel’s concerns about the nuclear deal with Iran but nevertheless, remains determined to rejoin the JCPOA. Biden apparently not only believes that diplomacy will… Continue Reading →
In a cluster of contentious Democratic primaries Tuesday, two New York incumbents were ousted from the U.S. House after redistricting shuffled congressional districts in one of the nation’s largest liberal states. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a 15-term incumbent who chairs a… Continue Reading →
BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. military said early Wednesday it carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria that targeted areas used by militias backed by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activist collective… Continue Reading →
Video Editing is the process of planning, capturing and combining footage, audio and sometimes motion graphics to convey a message or tell a story. Aside from its educational and entertainment uses, video is an essential marketing tool for businesses, nonprofits,… Continue Reading →
The NYPD is on the lookout for two thugs who knocked a man unconscious in Kings Plaza in Brooklyn last weekend. The NYPD tells YWN that “unknown individuals approached the victim and unprovoked, punched the victim in the face, causing… Continue Reading →
The U.S. military said early Wednesday it carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria that targeted areas used by militias backed by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. There was no immediate acknowledgment by Syria’s state-run media of the strikes hitting Deir Ez-Zor…. Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of a number of tragedies which have occurred during the Bein Hazmanim (recess) period between Tisha B’Av and Elul, the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem which is currently the largest yeshiva in the world has… Continue Reading →
A few days before HaGaon HaRav Shalom Cohen’s last hospitalization, he was visited at his home by the heads of a company that imports esrogim from Morocco. They asked for a bracha for the esrogim, which are certified by the… Continue Reading →