Month February 2023
World Helps Turkey And Syria In Rescue Operations After The Destruction By A Deadly Earthquake
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a shocking case of neglect and poverty, a woman died of malnutrition in the chareidi community in Tiberias, leaving four orphans to fend for themselves. The Salomon family immigrated to Israel about 12 years ago. Their… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli embassy in Ankara estimates that the president of the Jewish community in Antakia was killed in Monday’s earthquake together with his wife, after their house collapsed during the course of the earthquake. Irit Lillian, Israel’s… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli-owned cybersecurity company Wiz has decided to transfer most of its money out of Israel in the wake of the planned judicial reforms being promoted by the new government. The company will leave some funds needed for… Continue Reading →
(Yaakov M) — The Chinese spy balloon fiasco is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with the Biden administration. First, President Biden sat around and did nothing while a Chinese balloon casually traversed thousands of miles in the U.S.,… Continue Reading →
CAPITOL (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Disgraced GOP Congressman George Santos, who continues to claim his mother was in downtown Manhattan on 9/11 despite immigration documents indicating she wasn’t even in the US, is bringing a former firefighter who worked… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – Nearly 150 New York City police officers committed misconduct, including using excessive force, while responding to the 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd, according to a report released Monday by a civilian review board…. Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (R’ Elchanan Poupko / VINnews) — Much, yet not enough, has been said about the North American Shidduch crisis. The age gap between Yeshiva students marrying women who are a few years younger than them in a community… Continue Reading →
ADANA, TURKEY (AP) – Rescuers in Turkey and war-ravaged Syria searched through the frigid night into Tuesday, hoping to pull more survivors from the rubble after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed more than 4,000 people and toppled thousands of buildings… Continue Reading →
MONSEY (VINnews/SandyEller) – A nine year old Monsey boy is lucky to be alive after falling through the ice on a local lake late this afternoon. The unnamed boy was one of two children who went to play on the… Continue Reading →
CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Fire swept through a commercial warehouse Monday in suburban Chicago, producing a smoke plume that could be seen for miles. The morning fire at Morgan Li, a maker of fixtures and furniture in Chicago Heights,… Continue Reading →
ATLANTA (AP) — A continuing wave of antisemitic flyers hit parts of suburban Atlanta, including the home of Georgia’s only Jewish state legislator. State Rep. Esther Panitch, a freshman Democrat from Sandy Springs, denounced the flyers from the floor of… Continue Reading →
The Israel Defense Forces dispatched a significant search-and-rescue group to earthquake-stricken southeastern Turkey on Monday. “The minute we’ll land, we’ll go straight to work, as we’re used to doing,” Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, IDF international spokesman, said. He described the… Continue Reading →
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland woman conspired with a Florida neo-Nazi leader to carry out an attack on several electrical substations in the Baltimore area, officials said Monday. The arrest of Sarah Beth Clendaniel, of Baltimore County, was the latest… Continue Reading →
Chinese authorities have confirmed that an “unmanned aircraft” flying over Latin America originated in China, even as Beijing stepped up its protests against the U.S. military’s decision to shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that traversed the United States… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Monday that improvements ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defenses against Chinese espionage helped identify last week’s spy balloon — and determine that similar flights were conducted at multiple points during the Trump… Continue Reading →
MILLER PLACE, N.Y. (AP) — An 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a New York nursing home but found to be breathing three hours later at the funeral home where she had been taken, authorities said. The woman was pronounced… Continue Reading →
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AP) — Rescue workers and civilians passed chunks of concrete and household goods across mountains of wreckage early Monday, moving tons of wreckage by hand in a desperate search for survivors trapped by a devastating earthquake. “Can anyone… Continue Reading →
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime sent Israel a “near unprecedented” appeal for aid following the severe earthquake that hit the country on Monday. Israel received the request through Russia. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake centered in southern Turkey killed more than 2,300 people, according… Continue Reading →
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A $747 million Powerball jackpot will be up for grabs Monday night for players willing to risk $2 against the long, long odds of winning the big prize. No one has won the jackpot since… Continue Reading →