Month January 2023
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two helicopters collided in an Australian tourist hotspot Monday afternoon, killing four passengers and critically injuring three others in a crash that drew emergency aid from beachgoers enjoying the water during the southern summer. One helicopter… Continue Reading →
The House Jan. 6 committee is shutting down, having completed a whirlwind 18-month investigation of the 2021 Capitol insurrection and sent its work to the Justice Department along with a recommendation for prosecuting former President Donald Trump. The committee’s time… Continue Reading →
Everyone knows and feels that a picture album is a piece of nostalgia. Magic flashes of sweet memories. Childhood memories, family and times of together are folded in and broadens the heart. Yudale, has a picture album too. His mother… Continue Reading →
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of people in the Philippines remained in emergency shelters in the wake of devastating Christmas flooding, as the death toll climbed to 51 with 19 missing, authorities said Monday. Images showed residents in southern Misamis… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Friday (1/06/23)Morning Reb. Esty HalberstamSister Shiva Hours 4:00-9:30, Thursday sitting at 4910 17th Ave #6J
NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — In this exclusive interview, noted author Rabbi Elchanan Poupko, Rebbi at Park East Day School, discusses the Nazi past of the German Pope Benedict, his support of the pro-Hitler Pope Pius, and Benedict’s… Continue Reading →
LONDON (JNS) – United Kingdom Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honors, according to a statement released Friday by the U.K. cabinet office. Mirvis was given… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 7:30 amMincha: 4:00 pmMaariv: 8:00 pm R’ Dovid GoldsteinSon
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin McCarthy is set to face a case of deja vu come Tuesday. The political future of the 57-year-old will once again be at stake as Republican lawmakers decide if he should be elected as House speaker…. Continue Reading →
JERUSAELM (JNS) – Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer was sworn in Thursday as strategic affairs minister. Dermer, a confidante of Prime Minister Netanyahu and known as “Bibi’s Brain,” is set to resurrect a ministry closed down… Continue Reading →
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The death toll from an explosion of a tanker truck on Christmas Eve near eastern Johannesburg has risen to 34, including 10 health workers at a nearby hospital, officials report. The truck was carrying gas when it… Continue Reading →
When lawyers argue before the Supreme Court, a small white light goes on to tell them when their time is almost expired and then a red light signals when they should stop. But arguments this term are extending well beyond… Continue Reading →
OHIO (JNS) – The Kol Israel Foundation Holocaust Memorial in Ohio was designated a national memorial as part of the 2023 omnibus spending bill passed last week. The monument, located in Zion Memorial Park, Bedford Heights, was built by the… Continue Reading →
Are you dreaming of getting a good job, starting a business, or expanding your skills so you can increase your salary? Stop dreaming and join the PCS Business Enrichment Course, a proven path to parnassah success since 2004. Gain valuable… Continue Reading →
Some of the big buzzwords of 2022 have been placed on Lake Superior State University’s annual banished words list—starting, literally, with the greatest of all time or GOAT. Over 1,500 language nit-pickers submitted choices, which include “inflection point,” “quiet quitting,”… Continue Reading →
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania family of a man arrested in the slayings of four University of Idaho students expressed sympathy for the families of the victims but also vowed to support him and promote “his presumption of innocence.”… Continue Reading →
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. national park comprising a cluster of uninhabited islands in the Florida Keys was closed Monday after 300 migrants made 10 landings there over the weekend, officials said. Dry Tortugas National Park, about 70… Continue Reading →
We are post the Jewish holiday of Chanukah where the heroine in the historic victory of the saga schemed to take on Holofernes. How apropos to this show about a woman who was a Zionist pioneer, spy, and patriot, a… Continue Reading →
She is a Muslim Arab woman. She’s an iconoclast and a pioneer. An army officer who has received both the President’s Award of Excellence and that of the minister of defense, she is the first Muslim Arab woman to publicly… Continue Reading →
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Three construction workers were killed and two others were hurt on Monday when scaffolding collapsed in an industrial accident at a job site in Charlotte, North Carolina, authorities said. The collapse happened at a construction site… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A strike by thousands of New York City nurses loomed Monday even as nurses at one hospital reached a tentative agreement hours before their contract was set to expire. The pact affecting 4,000 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian… Continue Reading →