Month January 2023
Family getting up: Friday (1/20/23)Morning R` Yehuda AshkenaziHusband R` Matisyahu HochmanBrother Not sitting at main address the full time R` Yisroel Meir HochmanBrother Not sitting at main address the full time Hayeled Yisroel AshkenaziSon Mrs. Rina FinkelSister Mrs. Chaya BleierSister… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — A hundred years after taking in scores of children whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide, a 19th-century orphanage in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter has reopened its doors as a museum documenting the community’s rich, if pained,… Continue Reading →
ROME (AP) — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was captured on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said. Messina Denaro was captured at the… Continue Reading →
BERLIN (AP) — German police said Monday that a man has died after crashing a car into Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. Images from the scene show the mangled wreck of the dark-colored sedan between two pillars of the capital’s popular… Continue Reading →
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s much-criticized defense minister announced her resignation Monday, as her department steers the massive project of modernizing the country’s military and oversees expanding weapons deliveries to Ukraine. Christine Lambrecht said in a written statement that she had… Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES (VINnews) — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has formally charged a man who allegedly cheated over 2 dozen Orthodox Jews out of $47 million. The SEC claimed in a lawsuit Thursday that from December 2018 to January… Continue Reading →
POKHARA, Nepal (AP) — A spokesman for Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash of a passenger plane that went down on approach to… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A number of videos documenting the tragic crash in Nepal have been released on social media, including one video taken by a passenger on the ill-fated plane flight to Kathmandu. Another passenger, identified as one Elena… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi took over Tuesday as the 23rd commander in chief of the Israel Defense Forces, replacing Aviv Kohavi, who completed a four-year tenure as the IDF chief of staff. During a ceremony which took… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews PODCAST) — In this exclusive interview, Reb Chaskel Bennett, writer, political activist, and Board of Trustee member of Agudas Yisrael, discusses the NY Times’ targeting of the frum community, as well as the Agudah’s new awareness campaign,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On Sunday evening, about a thousand protesters demonstrated against a cell phone in the Geula neighborhood in Jerusalem. Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Chassidim went to the store to demonstrate, led by the Rebbe, who himself came to demonstrate… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly empowered House Republicans on Sunday demanded the White House turn over all information related to its searches that have uncovered classified documents at President Joe Biden’s home and former office in the wake of more records… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Officials are investigating a close call at a New York airport Friday night between a plane that was crossing a runway and another that was preparing for takeoff. “(Expletive)! Delta 1943, cancel takeoff clearance! Delta 1943,… Continue Reading →
(Yaakov M / VIN Podcast) — The White House narrative of the ‘Garage-gate’ scandal is filled with lies, omissions, and glaring contradictions. Why were Biden’s lawyers cleaning out a closet? Shouldn’t that have been done by a cleaning crew? Or… Continue Reading →
With social media opening the eyes to the world about issues that were previously unknown to others, it has been normalized to those who in the past used to suffer silently. One of those issues is abuse. That word is… Continue Reading →
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday his government plans to charge ahead with an overhaul of the country’s judicial system, despite fierce criticism from top legal officials and protests against the changes that drew… Continue Reading →
POMPTON LAKES, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey house where smoke had been reported exploded with volunteer firefighters inside, injuring five of them and sending two to a hospital for treatment of burns, authorities said. The Pompton Lakes Volunteer Fire… Continue Reading →
POKHARA, Nepal (AP) — A plane making a 27-minute flight to a Nepal tourist town crashed into a gorge Sunday while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. At least… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider what employers must do to accommodate religious employees, among eight new cases it added. The cases are expected to be argued in April. In one involving a former postal… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden offered himself to Americans as a president they wouldn’t have to think about after the tumult of his predecessor. But an excruciating week of awkward disclosures and the appointment of a special counsel to investigate… Continue Reading →
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol received an honor guard welcome Sunday on a trip to the United Arab Emirates as he hopes to expand its military sales here. Yoon’s visit comes as… Continue Reading →