Month October 2022
LONDON (JNS) – Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Ephraim Mirvis will be an overnight guest of the royal family in May so that he will be able to attend King Charles’s coronation that will take place on Shabbat. Mirvis… Continue Reading →
LONDON (JNS) – Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Ephraim Mirvis will be an overnight guest of the royal family in May so that he will be able to attend King Charles’s coronation that will take place on Shabbat. Mirvis… Continue Reading →
An evacuation order has abruptly forced out residents of a 14-story oceanfront building on the same avenue where a condominium collapse killed nearly 100 people last year. The city posted an unsafe structure notice Thursday evening at the Port Royale… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The intruder who attacked Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in their San Francisco home confronted him shouting,”Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” according to a person briefed on the situation and granted anonymity to discuss it. Paul Pelosi… Continue Reading →
(AP) – Oil companies brought in record profits once again as people worldwide struggled with high gasoline and energy prices. Exxon Mobil broke records with its profits in the third quarter, raking in $19.66 billion in net income. The Irving,… Continue Reading →
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Friday in its first ballistic weapons launches in two weeks, as the U.S. military warned the North that the use of nuclear weapons “will result in the end of… Continue Reading →
Hawaii officials are warning residents of the Big Island that the world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa, is sending signals that it may erupt. Scientists say an eruption isn’t imminent, but they are on alert because of a recent spike… Continue Reading →
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Some 700 daily-use objects from a mass grave found at the World War II Gross-Rosen Nazi German death camp were symbolically handed Friday to the camp’s museum in Poland. The objects were found buried together with… Continue Reading →
Download For Shabbas Reading Our shlichus is unique, since we are full-time Merkos shluchim. Over the summer, bochurim are sent out in pairs to small communities all over the world. What bochurim have been doing for the better part of… Continue Reading →
(AP) – Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter after a protracted legal battle and months of uncertainty. The question now is what the billionaire Tesla CEO will actually do with the social media platform. Musk ousted three top Twitter… Continue Reading →
Russian soldiers pummeling a city in eastern Ukraine with artillery are slowly edging closer in their attempt to seize Bakhmut, which has remained in Ukrainian hands during the eight-month war despite Moscow’s goal of capturing the entire Donbas region bordering… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve remained painfully high last month, the latest sign that prices for most goods and services in the United States are still rising steadily. Friday’s report… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com And Hashem said to Noach, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for it is you that I have seen as a righteous man before Me in this generation.” (Bereishis 7:1) A… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was severely beaten by an assailant who broke into their San Francisco home, and he’s being treated by doctors for injuries, according to people familiar with the matter…. Continue Reading →
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was caught on a hot mic telling President Joe Biden that Democrats are “in danger” of losing their majority in Congress’ upper chamber, adding that the party’s electoral prospects are “going downhill” in Georgia, where… Continue Reading →
Israel is holding its fifth national election in under four years, and once again the race is shaping up as a referendum on former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fitness to rule. Netanyahu has been campaigning while standing trial on corruption… Continue Reading →
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville said this week that the country has too many “takers” instead of workers and suggested that many in younger generations — including people in their 40s — don’t understand they need to work. Tuberville, 68, made… Continue Reading →
A Washington state judge on Wednesday fined Facebook parent company Meta nearly $25 million for repeatedly and intentionally violating campaign finance disclosure law, in what is believed to be the largest campaign finance penalty in U.S. history. The penalty issued… Continue Reading →
All summer long, Aleen Hudson kept looking for a new minivan or SUV for her growing passenger shuttle service. She had a good credit rating and enough cash for a down payment. Yet dealerships in the Detroit area didn’t have… Continue Reading →
Elon Musk’s first move after taking control of Twitter? Firing the company’s top brass. Musk, the world’s richest man, took control of the social media giant on Thursday night, and immediately went to task changing the company from within. His… Continue Reading →
LONDON (VINnews) —British chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, will stay with King Charles the night before the coronation in order to observe the Shabbat. King Charles’s coronation will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2023, and Rabbi Mirvis and his wife,… Continue Reading →