Month February 2023
Real estate businessman Jacob Eisenbach had a problem that all businesses face at some point: he had issues with his computer. While such problems are common, Jacob’s solution was anything but. In a world where we want everything done yesterday,… Continue Reading →
Whenever Renewal, the organization that helps facilitate kidney transplants, emails a notification that operations are taking place, I stop what I’m doing and say a kapitel Tehillim for the refuos of the donors and recipients. It’s inspiring that there are… Continue Reading →
Stillness. As Malkie Klaristenfeld looked at the perfect form on the screen, she saw the stillness and she knew. Again. Her baby’s life was over before it began. After delivery, she was left alone with her daughter, her neshamahle. Malkie wrote… Continue Reading →
My world was encased in fog. And so was my reflection in the mirror. Listless eyes, pale lips. And the acne breakout on my skin didn’t make things any better. Something inside me was crumbling. I did my best to… Continue Reading →
Serves 7 1 cup honey ¾ cup deli mustard ¾ cup dark brown sugar ¼ cup duck sauce, plus more to brush the roll ¼ cup mayonnaise 2 teaspoons soy sauce 1 sheet puff pastry 8 slices navel pastrami … Continue Reading →
Serves 15-20 1 pickled tongue, vacuum-packed Sauce: 6 cups water 3 cups duck sauce 3 cups sweet chili sauce 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar ½ cup chicken soup mix ½ cup honey Bring a pot of water to… Continue Reading →
JORDAN (VINnews) — In a disgraceful display, Jordanian government officials cut the leather straps off the Tefillin of Dubai’s Chief Rabbi. Airport security officials in Amman slashed Rabbi Moshe Haliwa’s Tefillin as he attempted to board a connecting flight to… Continue Reading →
The nation’s housing slump deepened in January as home sales fell for the 12th consecutive month to the slowest pace in more than a dozen years. The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that existing U.S. home sales fell to… Continue Reading →
Former President Donald Trump has made it quite clear that he no longer likes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is almost certain to put up a strong fight against him for the GOP nomination in 2024. Trump has attacked DeSantis… Continue Reading →
MIAMI (VINnews) – Detectives with the Broward Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Unit have arrested 28-year-old Tevin Grant in connection with a violent antisemitic attack that took place earlier this month. The crime occurred at approximately 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 7,… Continue Reading →
A Jewish educational and outreach center on wheels was vandalized for the second time in a few months, police said, 1010 WINS reports. According to police, The “Mitzvah Tank” was targeted by the vandal as it was parked on Broadway… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia, after a series of short hospital stays. The Carter Center said in a statement Saturday that Carter, 98, “decided to spend his remaining time at… Continue Reading →
Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today. A case coming before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, Gonzalez v. Google, challenges this… Continue Reading →
The well-known Maggid, HaRav Baruch Rosenbloom, spoke in his weekly shiur last week about the Ramot terror attack, which took the lives of the two Paley brothers, h’yd, and Altar Shlomo Lederman, h’yd. HaRav Rosenblum mentioned that this wasn’t the… Continue Reading →
Top state election and cybersecurity officials on Thursday warned about threats posed by Russia and other foreign adversaries ahead of the 2024 elections, noting that America’s decentralized system of thousands of local voting jurisdictions creates a particular vulnerability. Russia and… Continue Reading →
Work less, get more. A trial of a four-day workweek in Britain, billed as the world’s largest, has found that an overwhelming majority of the 61 companies that participated from June to December will keep going with the shorter hours… Continue Reading →
The mayor of East Palestine, Trent Conaway, has criticized President Joe Biden for traveling to Ukraine instead of visiting Ohio’s toxic train derailment site. Biden’s surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has angered… Continue Reading →
A monster winter storm took aim at the Upper Midwest on Tuesday, threatening to bring blizzard conditions, bitterly cold temperatures and 2 feet of snow in a three-day onslaught that could affect more than 40 million Americans. The storm was… Continue Reading →
Stocks tumbled to their worst day in two months Tuesday, buckling under worries about higher interest rates and their tightening squeeze on Wall Street and the economy. The S&P 500 fell 2% for its sharpest drop since the market was… Continue Reading →
The Yeshiva Bochrim at Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel Chofetz Chaim in Flatbush were in for a Rosh Chodesh Adar surprise on Tuesday. Singer Eli levin surprised the Bochrim with a beautiful musical Hallel in honor of Chodesh Adar. The Bochrim also… Continue Reading →