Month January 2023
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — Seven people were killed in two related shootings Monday at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm in a coastal community south of San Francisco, and a suspect was in custody, officials said. San… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Some audience members leaving a concert by Drake at a Manhattan theater came outside to see a New York Police Department officer filming those filing out, raising concerns from privacy advocates over what would be done… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – The Israel Defense Forces and U.S. Central Command on Monday launched Exercise Juniper Oak 2023, which is taking place in Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. The drills will include a live-fire event with more than 140… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] A hungry 1-year-old whose Tatty got laid off…For the third time this year. A shivering little girl whose mother is deciding how to use her last few pennies– A warm coat, or bread and milk? Harav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi,… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) – It’s a book filled with the names of 4.8 million murder victims. The blank pages at the end, though, are especially haunting. In recognition of this year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem is set to… Continue Reading →
forget what has happened. We cannot forget because of the victims, their persecutions and horrible deaths. We cannot forget because of the survivors, who witnessed and lost so much, and we cannot forget because Jews, and other victims were targeted… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a simplified approach for future vaccination efforts, allowing most adults and children to get a… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — New York State’s Education Department (NYSED) has imposed a deadline for New York City to complete its investigations into yeshivas. The NYSED set a six month deadline for the city to complete its probes into dozens… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 7:00 amMincha: 4:50 pmMaariv: 5:30 pm Mrs. Shavy ItzkowitzDaughter Mr. Shloima KohlSon Mr. Sam KohlSon Afternoon Mr. Menachem KohlSon Will return from Israel to sit shiva starting Wednesday morning. Shiva end date Jan 31
NEW YORK (AP) – Across the country, there’s a silent frustration brewing about an age-old practice that many say is getting out of hand: tipping. Some fed-up consumers are posting rants on social media complaining about tip requests at drive-thrus,… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 7:30 amMincha: 4:45 pmMaariv: 5:05 pm Rabbi Ephraim Silber Husband Rabbi Mayer Silber Son Mrs. Brookie Silber Daughter Mrs. Dina Silber Daughter
PARK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Two sisters escaped from a car that went into a lake in western Michigan and then shivered for hours in soggy coats and bare feet before finally finding help, authorities said. Their 52-year-old father, who… Continue Reading →
(AP) – Microsoft says it is making a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and other tools that can write readable text and generate new images. The tech giant on Monday described its… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Coalition lawmakers gathered at a Shas faction meeting at the Knesset in a show of support for party chairman Aryeh Deri on Monday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed Deri from the Cabinet on Sunday, in accordance with… Continue Reading →
AMMAN (JNS) – A Jordanian court ordered Israel’s embassy in Amman to pay $500,000 in compensation to a Jordanian citizen injured by an embassy security guard on July 23, 2017. The court accepted the claim of the plaintiff, Maher Fares… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has been indicted on charges he helped a Russian oligarch, in violation of U.S. sanctions. He was also charged, in a separate indictment, with taking cash from a former foreign… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) – American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch said he is working with his Israeli friends to prevent the government in Jerusalem from changing the Law of Return. Under the current law, an individual with a single Jewish… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Democrats, dismayed by a steady stream of startling disclosures, expressed criticism Sunday of how President Joe Biden handled classified material after leaving office as vice president and disappointment that the White House has not been more… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Rabbi Harvey ZupnikBrother Rabbi Menachem ZupnikBrother Sitting in Passaic (263 Pennington Avenue) from Wednesday morning. Rabbi Dov ZupnikBrother Sitting in Har Nof Rabbi Binyomin SegalSon Sitting in Providence RI (45 Vassar Ave) through Wednesdays afternoon Mrs. Dvora… Continue Reading →
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — Authorities searched for a motive for the gunman who killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club during Lunar New Year celebrations, slayings that sent a wave of fear through Asian American communities… Continue Reading →
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency has closed a more than six-year investigation into exhaust odors in Ford Explorer passenger cabins, determining that the SUVs don’t have high levels of carbon monoxide and don’t need to be… Continue Reading →