Month February 2023
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 →
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revive an ACLU lawsuit challenging a portion of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international email and phone communications. The justices left in place an appeals court ruling against the Wikimedia… Continue Reading →
An Orthodox Jewish teen was left shaken after he was robbed of his electric scooter at knifepoint by three black teenagers in Crown Heights. The victim was reportedly scootering near Empire Blvd. and Troy Ave. on Monday afternoon when he… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews Podcast) — In this powerful episode, Yaakov M discusses the latest Chinuch Roundtable question — should parents choose a High School with strong academics and a better reputation, or the school where the girls’ friends are going?… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – Home Depot said Tuesday it’s investing $1 billion in wage increases for its U.S. and Canadian hourly workers. The Atlanta-based home improvement chain said every hourly employee will get a raise starting this month. Starting pay… Continue Reading →
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki will debut a weekly MSNBC political program on Sundays at noon next month, the network said on Tuesday. “Inside with Jen Psaki” will contain one-on-one interviews with newsmakers, and discuss policy issues like… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu chided the United Nations Security Council for its “one-sided” statement on Monday denouncing Israeli settlement activity and condemned the United States for supporting it. “The UN Security Council has issued a one-sided statement which denies the… Continue Reading →
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s latest missile launches are a demonstration of the country’s avowed ability to use nuclear force against South Korea and the mainland U.S. How immediate is that threat? North Korea claims its nuclear forces… Continue Reading →
A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate five years ago with claims that he made the world’s first genetically edited babies said Tuesday that he hopes to research rare hereditary diseases in Hong Kong. He Jiankui shocked the… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Renowned Chinuch expert Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz has posted a video on Instagram, discussing whether it is acceptable to have pictures of women in frum publications and the “public sphere.” Rabbi Horowitz prefaced that he has ”very… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of Enfamil announced a recall of about 145,000 cans of infant formula due to the possibility of cross-contamination with a bacteria that can cause serious illness or death. Reckitt, a U.K.-based consumer health and nutrition… Continue Reading →
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to step into a legal fight over state laws that require contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel. The justices rejected an appeal on behalf of an alternative weekly newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas,… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up its first case about a federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet by shielding Google, Twitter, Facebook and other companies from lawsuits over content posted on their… Continue Reading →
Iranian attacks in the waterways of the Middle East and elsewhere in the region “have the attention of everyone” as tensions rise over Tehran’s advancing nuclear program, the head of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet said Tuesday. Vice Adm. Brad… Continue Reading →
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — On the shores of the Persian Gulf, a new complex houses a Catholic church, a Jewish synagogue and an Islamic mosque in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The Abrahamic Family House… Continue Reading →
The maker of Enfamil announced a recall of about 145,000 cans of infant formula due to the possibility of cross-contamination with a bacteria that can cause serious illness or death. Reckitt, a U.K.-based consumer health and nutrition company, said over… Continue Reading →
MOSCOW (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the U.S., announcing the move Tuesday in a bitter speech where he made clear he would not change his strategy in… Continue Reading →
Human rights advocates on Tuesday urged South Korea to offer radiation exposure tests to hundreds of North Korean escapees who had lived near the country’s nuclear testing ground. Tests conducted by the South Korean government on 40 people in 2017… Continue Reading →
A four alarm fire ripped through a Williamsburg lumber yard, Tuesday morning, spewing smoke across the entire area. The FDNY says they was notified around 10:50 a.m. after a storage area belonging to R&R Lumber and Building Supplies, located at… Continue Reading →
MEDLEY, Fla. (AP) — An explosion and fire at an industrial complex in suburban Miami killed two people and left three others injured Tuesday morning, officials said. The explosion in the small city of Medley shot a large fireball into… Continue Reading →