Month February 2023
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Nikki Haley is swinging through Iowa this week fresh off announcing her presidential campaign. Her fellow South Carolinian Republican, Sen. Tim Scott, will also be here as he decides his political future. And former Vice… Continue Reading →
There are few true heroes in our midst. The people who stick their necks out to help others, and who do it not for money or fame, but because they truly care to help those whom nobody cares about. Those… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 8:00 amMaariv: 7:35 pm Mr. Chaim BlasbagSon will be getting up sunday Feb 26 Mrs. Chaya SchweitzerDaughter will be getting up sunday Feb 26 Mrs. Sara SheinfilDaughter will be getting up friday Feb 24 Mr. Avrohom… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s no urban legend: An alligator was found in a chilly New York City lake on Sunday, far from the subtropical and tropical climates where such creatures thrive. The 4-foot (1.2-meter) reptile was pulled from Prospect… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is one of those dilemmas that tens of thousands of Torah-observant families have grappled with for decades. Many have posed the question to Rav Chaim zatzal. And now, a remarkable Talmid Chochom, Rabbi… Continue Reading →
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Joe Biden’s motorcade slipped out of the White House around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. No big, flashy Air Force One for this trip -– the president vanished into the darkness on an Air Force C-32, a… Continue Reading →
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — New 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Turkey’s Hatay province devastated by massive tremor 2 weeks ago. Panic in Turkey as two new earthquakes hit the Turkey-Syria border. A 6.4 magnitude tremor followed by a 5.8, again in… Continue Reading →
MOSCOW (AP) – Vladimir Putin says he learned from his boyhood brawls in his native St. Petersburg: “If you want to win a fight, you have to carry it through to the end, as if it were the most decisive… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 6:30 pmMincha: 5:15 pmMaariv: 5:45 pm Mrs. Debbie Schwartz Sister Mr. Nussi MutterperlSon Mr. Yoseph Mutterperl Son Yosef will be sitting shiva in Toms River Shachis 7am Mincha/Mariv 5:20pm Shiva hours till 10pm Mrs. Rifky TaubDaughter
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday announced a new $5.5 billion financial aid for Ukraine and will mark the first anniversary of the war by hosting an online Group of Seven summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr… Continue Reading →
BERLIN (AP) — Russian pranksters posing as Ukraine’s ex-President Petro Poroshenko managed to contact Angela Merkel by phone to discuss developments in Ukraine and Belarus, although the former German chancellor appeared wary during the call. Merkel’s office said Monday that… Continue Reading →
Mass protests were held on Monday against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plans to enact judicial reforms, with thousands of protesters making their way to Jerusalem and demonstrating outside the Knesset, where preliminary votes on two of the judicial reform laws… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Amid ongoing criticism over his comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, Don Lemon was absent Monday from “CNN This Morning.” Co-host Poppy Harlow told viewers that “Don has the day off.” Lemon has not been… Continue Reading →
One of the thousands of left-wing protesters who came to the Knesset on Monday to protest against the judicial reforms spotted UTJ MK Uri Maklev on his way from the Prime Minister’s Office to the Knesset building. He ran after… Continue Reading →
Heavy rain caused flooding and landslides that have killed 36 people on the northern coast of Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, officials said Monday, while fatalities could rise. Sao Paulo’s state government said in a statement that 35 died in the… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has told the Biden administration it will rein in the approval of new West Bank settlement outposts, the prime minister’s office said Monday, a day after a potential diplomatic crisis was averted at the United Nations… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Journalist Sivan Rahav-Meir described in an Arutz Sheva article the demise of one of the most ancient Jewish communities, which has existed for over 2,200 years. “Look at this picture. The last Jew of Antakya, Turkey, is… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Thousands of women converged on the Binyanei Ha’Uma auditorium in central Jerusalem for a gathering marking the shiva of the two brothers murdered in a terrorist attack last Friday, Yaakov Yisrael and Asher Menachem Paley HyD. The… Continue Reading →
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Joe Biden paid an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a defiant display of Western solidarity with a country still fighting what he called “a brutal and unjust… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an interview prior to a crowdfunding campaign, terror victim Benaya Peretz, who was shot through the neck and critically injured in 2021, described his experiences and the aftermath of the brutal attack. “We were on the… Continue Reading →
U.S. intelligence suggests China is considering providing arms and ammunition to Russia, an involvement in the Kremlin’s war effort that would be a “serious problem,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. Blinken said the United States long has been concerned… Continue Reading →