Month January 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — Artificial intelligence is writing fiction, making images inspired by Van Gogh and fighting wildfires. Now it’s competing in another endeavor once limited to humans — creating propaganda and disinformation. When researchers asked the online AI chatbot ChatGPT… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Sunday (1/29/23)Morning R` Jacob SturmSon Mrs. RAchel BeissDaughter Mrs. Debra LevitanDaughter
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli group raising funds for Jewish extremists convicted in some of the country’s most notorious hate crimes is collecting tax-exempt donations from Americans, according to findings by The Associated Press and the Israeli investigative platform Shomrim…. Continue Reading →
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen told Pope Francis in a letter that war with China is “not an option” and said constructive interaction with Beijing, which claims the island as part of its territory, depends on respecting… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana Home last week, according to his attorney. “The additional records appear to be a small number of documents bearing classified markings that were… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — More landlords are taking Twitter to court over unpaid rent, this time at the social media company’s headquarters in San Francisco and its British offices — the latest sign that owner Elon Musk’s extreme cost-cutting strategy includes… Continue Reading →
PARIS (AP) — Apparently deliberately set blazes to clusters of electrical cables caused cascading cancellations on the Paris train network Tuesday, all but shutting down services at one of the French capital’s busiest stations. Two fires damaged 48 cables, Transport… Continue Reading →
(AP) – Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing health care business. The retail giant said Tuesday that it will launch RxPass, a subscription service for customers who have Prime memberships. Amazon said people will pay… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In another indication of the new government’s intent to roll back policies of its predecessor, the UTJ party submitted a bill to ban Chometz from hospitals during Pesach. In 2020 the High Court declared such bans in… Continue Reading →
FLORIDA (VINnews) — A Chasidic man was thrown off a flight from Ft. Lauderdale to New York. The official reason was that he put too much luggage in the overhead compartment. According to a witness, a flight attendant said the… Continue Reading →
BALTIMORE (VINnews) — The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2000 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, decried a lawsuit against the state of Missouri by a dozen rabbis and other faith leaders, calling the suit a “desecration… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s coastal strip has many separate beaches catering to the chareidi public, but the numerous springs at national parks have no such arrangements and many religious people cannot therefore bathe in these springs during the summer months…. Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Two 13-year-old chareidi girls from the Chabad school in Nof Hagalil [formerly Upper Nazareth] produced a surprisingly simple and ingenious invention during a “patent fair” being held by the school for inventive ideas. The two, Naomi Daniel… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com There are so many aspects of Hashem’s Divine Wisdom that they are uncountable. But here is a truly remarkable one: spiders. Darwin once made an observation when he was on a ship 60 miles… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jerusalem District Court acceded to a petition by Deputy Mayor Yossi Havilio and some thousand residents of the Har Homa neighborhood in southern Jerusalem and ruled that the local swimming pool should be open on Shabbat,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In his popular Daily Wire podcast, Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro defended the Netanyahu government’s plans to reform the Israeli judicial system, and slammed the negative media coverage of the proposed reforms. Shapiro termed the Israeli judiciary a… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com As of this writing, there are thousands of frum yidden in Miami, in Orlando, and in Boca Raton. Many of them are eating out in fleishig restaurants. There are over thirty kosher restaurants in… Continue Reading →
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr. (born July 18, 1947) is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes. The business magazine is well known for its lists and rankings, including of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400); America’s Wealthiest Celebrities; the world’s top… Continue Reading →
The story of Aron Mordechai (Mordche) Lubelsky is sure to inspire many people to make more time for learning, even as they pursue success in business. After a difficult start in life, losing his mother at only five years old,… Continue Reading →
Last Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the US had hit the debt ceiling and that the Treasury would have to start taking “extraordinary measures” to keep paying the bills for as long as it can, which she predicted… Continue Reading →
Vaccines, migrants and voter fraud allegations are slowly outliving their ability to fuel outrage and keep the population polarized. Even high officials’ carelessness with classified documents has begun to fade to ho-humness. But have no fear! Stovegate is here! The… Continue Reading →