Month December 2022
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s largest medical center and health care workers from hospitals around the country have spoken out against remarks by allies of Benjamin Netanyahu calling for a law to allow discrimination against LGBTQ people in hospitals and businesses…. Continue Reading →
Two seemingly isolated and random outdoor murders at the height of the holiday season and of the kind New Yorkers have increasingly feared since the pandemic began were blamed by police officials Monday on a city resident with a criminal… Continue Reading →
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Thousands of Iranians on Tuesday attended state-organized funerals for 400 soldiers killed in the 1980s Iran-Iraq war. Iran’s president, meanwhile, lashed out at the United States and its allies, accusing them of fomenting anti-government… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 8:00 amMincha: 4:20 pmMaariv: Following Mincha R’ Beryl PhillipsHusband R’ Shmuel FreedmanBrother Starting Wednesday will be sitting in Lakewood at 319 Miller Rd, 08701 Mrs. Etty SoskinSister Starting Thursday will be sitting in Brooklyn at 978… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Eli Cohen’s daughter said on Monday that she plans to formally appeal to the United Arab Emirates to help secure the return of the notorious Israeli spy’s body to the Jewish state. “I am asking the Emiratis,… Continue Reading →
South Korea’s president on Tuesday called for stronger air defenses and high-tech stealth drones while the military apologized for failing to shoot down North Korean drones that crossed the border for the first time in five years. South Korea’s military… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli Ambassador to Turkey Irit Lillian presented on Tuesday her credentials to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, taking up a post that had been vacant for four years. In August, Jerusalem and Ankara announced the restoration of full… Continue Reading →
Google has apologized and changed the results of the search term “Jew” on its website after widespread outcry. In a tweet, a representative for the search said it outsources its definitions to a third party and the result is a… Continue Reading →
Following the New York Times’ and Washington Post’s recent diatribes against Jews, it is only fitting that Google, the world’s largest search engine, joins the fray, becoming just the latest in a long string of companies mainstreaming antisemitism. When searching… Continue Reading →
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — State and military police were sent Tuesday to keep people off Buffalo’s snow-choked roads, and officials kept counting fatalities three days after western New York’s deadliest storm in at least two generations. Amid some signs of… Continue Reading →
Wow. After @libsoftiktok wax doxxed and threatened, @GovRonDeSantis reached out and told her she could stay at the Governor’s Mansion. pic.twitter.com/PVJkqCt12H — David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) December 27, 2022 WASHINGTON (VINnews) — In a blockbuster interview, Chaya Raichik,… Continue Reading →
When he ran for the White House, Joe Biden told voters his presidency would be a bridge to the next generation. His first two years on the job have revealed it to be a much more ambitious venture. As he… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) – Hip-hop mogul Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is not the only one taking a huge financial hit from the fallout of his series of antisemitic remarks. Following the plunge in the rapper’s estimated net worth… Continue Reading →
CHICAGO (AP) — A Lufthansa flight from Los Angeles to Frankfurt, Germany, made an unscheduled landing at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after a passenger’s laptop caught fire, the airline said. Monday night’s landing at O’Hare was a precautionary step after… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – Major U.S. airlines were broadsided by the massive weekend winter storm that swept across large swaths of the country but had largely recovered heading into Monday, except for one. Problems at Southwest Airlines appeared to snowball… Continue Reading →
Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday warned anew Ukraine that it must demilitarize, threatening further military action and falsely accusing Kyiv and the West of fueling the war that started with Moscow’s invasion. Sergey Lavrov said Ukraine must remove any military… Continue Reading →
In an extraordinary event organized by Ichud Mosdos Gur, about 200 people were tested on entire masechtos or perakim of Gemara by heart. This is hardly earth shattering, considering that these tests are regularly administered. What was unique was the… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – George Santos, the congressman-elect whose resume and personal story have collapsed under scrutiny this month, said Monday that he still identifies as “Jew-ish” despite reports showing that his grandparents were Catholics born in Brazil, not Jews… Continue Reading →
A fourth electrical substation was vandalized late on Christmas Day in Washington state, leaving homes in Kapowsin and Graham temporarily without power, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. By 7 a.m. Monday, more than 10,500 Puget Sound Energy customers… Continue Reading →
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Storm-battered Buffalo braced Tuesday for fresh snow while still counting fatalities and striving to recover from the deadliest storm in western New York in at least two generations. Mayor Byron Brown’s office announced seven additional storm-related… Continue Reading →