Month September 2022
It was a steamy summer evening in 1961. A light breeze wafted in from the seashore towards the magnificent mansion on Wadi Abu Jamal Street in western Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Some members of the Kishik family were lounging… Continue Reading →
The small blue house is located on a relatively quiet street in Austin, Texas. It’s quite late on a Friday afternoon, and I’ve just arrived in the city after driving for many hours. I’ve been expecting a calm Shabbos, but… Continue Reading →
We’re so used to the phrase, we don’t think about what it means. I speak of “Ultra Orthodox,” the common description of Jews for whom, like Jews since Sinai, the Torah is Divine and halachah is sacrosanct. What does “ultra”… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart announced it will be hiring 40,000 U.S. workers for the holidays, a majority of them seasonal workers. The move, announced Wednesday, comes as the nation’s largest retailer and largest private employer said it’s in a… Continue Reading →
In what has become an annual ritual, the CEOs of the major U.S. banks will appear in front of Congress this week to sell themselves as shepherds of a helpful industry at a time of financial and economic distress for… Continue Reading →
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Large numbers of Russians rushed to book one-way tickets out of the country while they still could Wednesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of military reservists for the war in Ukraine. Flights… Continue Reading →
The website of Iran’s Central Bank was briefly taken down on Wednesday as the Anonymous hacking group claimed it had targeted the websites of several Iranian state agencies. The apparent cyberattack came amid days of protests over the death of… Continue Reading →
Hertz plans to order up to 175,000 electric vehicles from General Motors over the next five years. The agreement announced Tuesday includes electric vehicle deliveries through 2027 and will include SUVs, pickups and luxury automobiles from Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac… Continue Reading →
CHICAGO (AP) — Lottery officials say two people claimed a $1.337B Mega Millions jackpot after ticket was sold near Chicago in July. According to the Illinois Lottery. The two winners want to remain anonymous, according to lottery officials. They agreed… Continue Reading →
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists in Russia on Wednesday, risking a deeply unpopular step that follows a string of humiliating setbacks for his troops nearly seven months after invading Ukraine. It’s the first call-up in… Continue Reading →
The manhunt for the terrorist who brutally murdered an elderly woman in Holon on Tuesday afternoon ended on Wednesday morning when his body was found in an abandoned building in Tel Aviv. He had hanged himself to death. The terrorist… Continue Reading →
A former Republican Party official in Georgia who was a fake elector in 2020 misrepresented her role in an alleged breach of voting equipment at a rural elections office two months after the last presidential election, a court filing says…. Continue Reading →
The independent arbiter tasked with inspecting documents seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home said Tuesday he intends to push briskly through the review process and appeared skeptical of the Trump team’s reluctance to say… Continue Reading →
Federal authorities charged 47 people in Minnesota with conspiracy and other counts in what they said Tuesday was the largest fraud scheme yet to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic by stealing $250 million from a federal program that provides… Continue Reading →
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked revoked the residency of the family members of the terrorist who murdered four IDF soldiers in a ramming attack in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem in 2017. “In accordance with the ruling given today in… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On Tuesday evening an elderly woman was brutally attacked and murdered on a Holon street. Police investigating the incident concluded that the attack was actually perpetrated by a Palestinian terrorist. After a large manhunt, the terrorist’s body… Continue Reading →
A new Senate study warns that U.S. spy agencies’ efforts to stop China and other adversaries from stealing secrets are hampered by miscommunication and a lack of money and staff at the office intended to coordinate those efforts. The report… Continue Reading →
Hurricane Fiona strengthened into a Category 4 storm Wednesday after devastating Puerto Rico, then lashing the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It was forecast to squeeze past Bermuda later this week. The storm has been blamed for… Continue Reading →
Venezuelan migrants flown to the upscale Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his transportation secretary Tuesday for engaging in a “fraudulent and discriminatory scheme” to relocate them. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Boston,… Continue Reading →
The Food and Drug Administration acknowledged Tuesday that its response to the U.S. infant formula shortage was slowed by delays in processing a whistleblower complaint and test samples from the nation’s largest formula factory. A 10-page report from the agency… Continue Reading →
A top executive at plant-based food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery after a fight outside a college football game in which he was accused of biting a man’s nose. Doug Ramsey was also charged with making… Continue Reading →