Month February 2023
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The leaders of the Netanyahu-led coalition sharply criticized the High Court of Justice for hearing a petition seeking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be declared unfit for office, claiming that even deliberating such a possibility was akin to… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the course of the Shabbos, a third victim of the brutal ramming attack which occurred in Jerusalem Friday was declared dead. 8-year-old Asher Paley was critically injured in the attack and died of his injuries on… Continue Reading →
(AP) — The IRS announced Friday that most relief checks issued by states last year aren’t subject to federal taxes, providing 11th hour guidance as tax returns start to pour in. A week after telling payment recipients to delay filing… Continue Reading →
ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Rescue crews on Saturday pulled more survivors, including entire families, from toppled buildings despite diminishing hopes as the death toll of the enormous quake that struck a border region of Turkey and Syria five days ago… Continue Reading →
Yaakov Yisroel Paley Hy”d, the six-year-old boy who was killed in a car-ramming attack in Yerushalayim today, was buried in Yerushalayim before the start of Shabbos. Yaakov Yisroel’s brother was hurt in the terror attack and is in critical condition… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon shot down an unknown object flying in U.S. airspace off the coast of Alaska on Friday on orders from President Joe Biden, White House officials said. The object was flying at about 40,000 feet and… Continue Reading →
By: Chaya Chazan Download for shabbos reading As a bochur, I had the zechus to be part of the second group of shluchim the Rebbe sent to South Africa. We spent 2 years there, assisting the head shliach, Rabbi Lipsker,… Continue Reading →
(AP) – Dutch police said Friday they are investigating a stunt that saw a text alluding to an antisemitic conspiracy theory projected onto the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, causing outrage across the country. The words “Ann (sic) Frank… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Within hours of an Air Force F-22 downing a giant Chinese balloon that had crossed the United States, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reached out to his Chinese counterpart via a special crisis line, aiming for a quick… Continue Reading →
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — An unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile has been launched from California to test the defense system, the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command said. The Minuteman III missile lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is getting a new communications director at the White House as he inches closer to an expected re-election campaign. The administration tapped a veteran of the Obama-Biden years to lead the team, Ben LaBolt…. Continue Reading →
(AP) – Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink is being probed over its shipping methods after an animal rights group contacted the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. officials said. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine said that public records show untrained… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is searching former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home as part of a classified records probe, according to a person familiar with the search. The person was not authorized to discuss the law enforcement action… Continue Reading →
R’ Alter Shlomo Lederman Hy”d, who was killed in today’s attack in Ramot, Yerushalayim, was just 20 years old. A member of the Pinsk Karlin kehillah, he was a talmid of Yeshiva Tal Torah. R’ Alyter Shlomo got married this… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The 20-year-old victim of the terrorist ramming attack in Jerusalem is Alter Shlomo Lederman, a Pinsk-Karlin chasid who recently got married and studied at the Tal Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem. He was on the way to his… Continue Reading →
Nearly half of all public school students in the U.S. that entered the 2022-2023 academic year are lagging behind benchmarks, according to a new Department of Education report. The National Center for Education Statistics School Pulse Panel report, published Thursday,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: In a ramming attack which occurred in the Ramot neighborhood in Jerusalem, a terrorist rammed into a bus stop and hit a number of people standing at the stop. The attack occurred at the last stop… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com Seven years ago, today, Klal Yisroel had lost an extraordinary Rosh Yeshiva, a world-class Posek, and a remarkable Tzaddik – Rav Yisroel Belsky, zichron tzaddik v’kadosh livracha. I was once doing research in libraries… Continue Reading →
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TURKEY (VINnews) — Israel’s Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau has published an open letter to the Israeli delegation to Turkey. His instructions included a halachic message to Jewish rescue workers to continue operations on Friday night and Shabbos day, in… Continue Reading →