Month June 2023
PELLA, Iowa (AP) — Kathleen Evenhouse took a break from her work in the corner of a small-town Iowa coffee shop to slam the federal criminal indictment of Donald Trump as patently political, the work of a U.S. Justice Department… Continue Reading →
GARDNERVILLE, Nevada (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday condemned Walt Disney World and the U.S. Justice Department — not his chief Republican rival, Donald Trump — as he courted Nevada Republicans deep in the heart of Trump country…. Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Intel is making the biggest foreign investment ever in Israel with the building of a chip manufacturing plant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday. The U.S. semiconductor company will spend $25 billion on a third factory… Continue Reading →
DETROIT (AP) — Multiple U.S. owners of Hyundai’s popular Ioniq 5 electric SUV have complained of completely or partially losing propulsive power, many after hearing a loud popping noise, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Saturday. Hyundai said it… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and accessibility. “Reddit is… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that parts of his coalition’s judicial reform initiative will move ahead this week. “We will meet this week and begin practical steps in the legal reform,” Netanyahu told Cabinet members… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 8:00 amMincha: 1:45 pmMaariv: 9:45 pm Rebbetzin Vella HorowitzWife Sitting until Tuesday Morning Harav Mordche HorowitzSon Sitting until Wednesday morning Harav Chaim Avrohom HorowitzSon Will be sitting in Monsey Monday evening 6pm to 12, 11 Murray… Continue Reading →
In a 2024 Republican presidential field full of long-shot candidates, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez may be — on paper anyway — the longest long shot of all. No sitting mayor has ever been elected U.S. president, a job that historically… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Mrs. Faigy Arielli Daughter Mrs. Chaya Weinstein Daughter Mrs. Rochel Altusky Daughter Mrs. Laya LibermanDaughter Harav Chaim Leib Perkowski Son Harav Chanoch Perkowski Son
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday she wants the state to have regulatory authority over boats that operate in caves and similar waterways following a fatal tour boat accident in an underground water tunnel off the Erie… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The British government is set to submit a bill which will prevent local councils and other public bodies from boycotting Israeli goods, according to a report by the British-based Daily Telegraph Saturday. The legislation was set… Continue Reading →
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — All 120 passengers and crew members aboard a Philippine ferry that caught fire at sea on Sunday were rescued safely and the fire was extinguished, the coast guard said. The M/V Esperanza Star caught fire at… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) — Ben Helfgott, one of two known Holocaust survivors to go on to compete in the Olympics, died Friday at 93. Helfgott survived the Holocaust as a teenager, and he went on to become a champion weightlifter… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The chief executive of airline Ryanair has apologized after a flight attendant announced that the Israeli city of Tel Aviv was “in Palestine.” According to the BBC, Eddie Wilson, Ryanair CEO, told the Simon Wiesenthal Center that… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli government is set to take a dramatic decision which will cut most of the bureaucracy involved in building in Judea and Samaria and place the power to decide on construction issues in the hands of… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) — Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that other Jews think Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not Jewish, despite his having “Jewish blood.” “I have a lot of Jewish friends,” Putin said on Friday at the St. Petersburg… Continue Reading →
(JTA) — South Africa’s president has taken heat for not cutting off ties with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine — but his country’s chief rabbi sees an opportunity in the relationship to lobby for an imprisoned Jew. South African… Continue Reading →
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will reopen within two weeks, Pennsylvania’s governor said Saturday, after joining President Joe Biden on a helicopter tour over the critical segment of the highway closed to East Coast… Continue Reading →
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Bush pilot Jim Tweto, known for his starring role in the Discovery Channel’s “Flying Wild Alaska” series, was killed along with a hunting and fishing guide from Idaho when their small plane crashed shortly after takeoff,… Continue Reading →
MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has offloaded cocaine in Miami worth an estimated $186 million that was seized in international waters of the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. The Coast Guard said in a news release that more… Continue Reading →