Month June 2023
California Investigating Whether DeSantis Involved In Flying Asylum-seekers From Texas To Sacramento
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Officials were investigating Tuesday whether Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis was behind a flight that picked up asylum-seekers on the Texas border and flew them — apparently without their knowledge — to California’s capital, even as faith-based… Continue Reading →
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The dramatic rupture of the dam that upheld Ukraine’s largest reservoir released a torrent of water Tuesday, raising fears of widespread damage and flooding in areas where tens of thousands of people live. It’s not clear… Continue Reading →
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The wall of a major dam in southern Ukraine collapsed Tuesday, triggering floods, endangering Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and threatening drinking water supplies as both sides in the war rushed to evacuate residents and blamed… Continue Reading →
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran claimed on Tuesday that it had created a hypersonic missile capable of traveling at 15 times the speed of sound, adding a new weapon to its arsenal as tensions remain high with the… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Chagit Leviev, president and CEO of Leviev Group USA and daughter of billionaire Lev Leviev, spoke at the Arutz Sheva Jerusalem Conference in New York, and discussed the philanthropic acts that the group is performing in… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a moving assembly which took place at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Rabbi Meir Tzvi Bergman, the son-in-law of the late Ponovezh Rosh Yeshiva Rav Shach, spoke in honor of Adirei HaTorah, honoring the students… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) — Leading up to its New York City conference, the Jerusalem Post tried to avoid the anti-government protests that had bedeviled other recent gatherings where Israeli government officials had spoken. And until 3 p.m., it appeared the… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The three largest chasidic groups in Israel- Gur, Belz and Vizhnitz- are set to hold weddings on the same day, Tuesday June 6th, although the Vizhnitz event will be taking place in the US. Thousands of chasidim… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VIN Podcast) — In this exclusive interview, Rockland GOP Congressman Mike Lawler discussed multiple hot-button issues, including antisemitism at CUNY, migrants being sent upstate by Mayor Adams, the Debt-Ceiling bill, and more. LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW: Last… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Rep. George Santos’ lawyer said Monday the indicted New York Republican would risk going to jail to protect the identities of the people who cosigned the $500,000 bond enabling his pretrial release. The lawyer, Joseph Murray,… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Gilad Zwick, who just started a new job as a media adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, no longer believes President Joe Biden is “ruining America” or that Donald Trump should rightfully be in Biden’s place…. Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he spoke by phone with Elon Musk on Sunday, calling the businessman and Twitter CEO “a person whose intelligence and contribution to humanity I greatly appreciate.” The tech mogul, currently the… Continue Reading →
BOSTON (AP) — A New Jersey lawyer charged with sexually assaulting four women in Boston about 15 years ago was ordered held on $500,000 bail Monday during a hearing in which a prosecutor said authorities helped tie him to the… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK CITY (VINnews) — In his latest sanctuary twist, Mayor Eric Adams has announced a new plan to have illegals in New York City be sheltered in houses of worship. The program is expected to host nearly 1,000 so-called… Continue Reading →
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York state trooper was charged with manslaughter on Monday for fatally shooting a Pennsylvania man after a high-speed car chase last year. Trooper Anthony Nigro was arraigned in state court in Buffalo for the… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It was an impromptu Sheva Bachos in Englewood, New Jersey at Cong. Ahavath Torah at the Nefesh B’Nefesh Homecoming Celebration. The couple, Joey and Tzophia, got married this past Thursday, and the idea came… Continue Reading →
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — People living in and around the nation’s capital on Sunday experienced a rare, if startling, sound: A sonic boom. The boom was heard after U.S. military dispatched a fighter jet to intercept an unresponsive business plane… Continue Reading →
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Candidates to be Guatemala’s next president are taking a cue from the leader of neighboring El Salvador and promising their voters they will build mega-prisons and hammer criminal gangs into submission. The formula of Salvadoran President… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — DNA is all around us — even in the air we breathe. Now scientists have found that air quality monitoring stations — which pull in air to test for pollution — also pick up lots of… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former FBI agent who took more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Russia and the former Soviet Union in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history died in… Continue Reading →
Two soldiers were injured after a Palestinian terrorist rammed his vehicle into troops in Huwara in the northern West Bank on Monday evening. The terrorist fled the scene in the vehicle. One soldier was moderately injured while another sustained light… Continue Reading →