Month January 2023
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group on Tuesday condemned the cartoons published recently by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that mocked Iran’s ruling clerics and urged France to punish the publication. The Iran-backed Hezbollah said the offensive caricatures… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase is cutting approximately 20% of its workforce, or about 950 jobs, in a second round of layoffs in less than a year. The company cited adverse economic conditions and disruptions within cryptocurrency… Continue Reading →
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The director of the World Health Organization’s Europe office said Tuesday that the agency sees “no immediate threat” for the European region from a COVID-19 outbreak in China, but more information is needed. China is battling… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who killed eight people on a New York City bike path in 2017 smiled as he proudly spoke of the carnage, asking to hang the flag of an Islamic militant group in his hospital… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has accused his stepmother, Camilla, the queen consort, of leaking private conversations to the media to burnish her own reputation as he promotes a new book that lays bare his story of his life behind… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com This January 26th, the 4th of Shvat will be the 57th yahrtzeit of the renowned Gaon Rav Yechiel Yaacov Weinberg zt”l. He came from Poland originally and was a student of both the Slabodka… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is set to meet Prime Minister Netanyahu during a future trip to Israel. Sullivan told reporters that currently the US has “set aside” attempts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is set to meet Prime Minister Netanyahu during a future trip to Israel. Sullivan told reporters that currently the US has “set aside” attempts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A journalist and research analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), has called out television host Christiane Amanpour after she implied on her television program there is a comparison between the… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Mirel Dzaslowski, the mother of 11 and member of the Karlin Chasidic group who was severely injured by a burning dumpster which rolled on her during a demonstration in Geula three weeks ago, has been released home… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (Yaakov M / VINnews) — The Biden administration may impose a ban on a convenience that many Americans benefit from. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is considering a national ban on gas stoves — due to the harmful… Continue Reading →
LAS VEGAS (AP) — From an AI oven that promises to warn you when your food is about to burn to a mixing bowl designed to take the hassle out of tracking calories, food tech was a key theme at… Continue Reading →
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Suggesting that New Jersey’s recent concealed carry law infringes on the public’s Second Amendment rights, a federal judge on Monday put a temporary hold on the legislation drafted after the U.S. Supreme Court expanded gun rights… Continue Reading →
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Doctors who treated Damar Hamlin said the Bills safety was moved to a hospital in Buffalo on Monday, an uplifting sign of the remarkable progress he has made a week after going into cardiac arrest… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is reviewing a batch of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden’s former institute, the White House said Monday. Special counsel to the president Richard Sauber said “a… Continue Reading →
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — The entire community of Montecito, California and surrounding canyons were ordered to evacuate Monday amid a deluge of rain that has flooded roads and swollen waterways. The evacuation order affecting about 10,000 people came on… Continue Reading →
GERMANY (VINnews) — The Mossad has done it again. Predictably, the Israeli spy agency provided the information that led to the arrest of an Iranian who planned a major chemical weapons attack in Germany. According to i24 News, Israeli sources… Continue Reading →
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — As Brazil reels from mobs of rioters swarming its seats of power, its former leader has decamped to a Florida resort, where droves of supporters flocked to cheer on their ousted president. Devotees have traveled in… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 8:00amMincha: 4:35pmMaariv: Mon: 4:55pm, rest of week: 7:00pm R’ Yossi LefflerFather R’ Shea ReissHusband R’ Dovid Shmuel LefflerBrother Miss Sara Faiga ReissDaughter Miss Rikki ReissDaughter Miss Hadassah Miriam ReissDaughter Hayeled Dovid Tzvi ReissSon Hayalda Aliza ReissDaughter
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced the cancelation of a regulation implemented by the previous government that allowed any lawmaker to meet with jailed Palestinian terrorists. Ben-Gvir said that he took the step after “concluding that these visits resulted… Continue Reading →
DETROIT (AP) — The number of traffic deaths on U.S. roadways fell slightly during the first nine months of 2022, but pedestrian and cyclist deaths continued to rise. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 31,785 people were killed… Continue Reading →