Frum News From The Greater Lakewood Area

Month June 2023

YouTube Changes Policy To Allow False Claims About 2020 Presidential Election

YouTube will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election or other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by “widespread fraud, errors or glitches,” the platform announced Friday. The change is a reversal for the Google-owned video service, which… Continue Reading →

Israeli Under-20 Soccer Team Reaches Semi Final Of Junior World Cup- ‘Mondialito’

JERUSALEM (VINnews)— In a major sports upset, Israel’s youth soccer team stunned the world Saturday night by eliminating the Brazilian team in the quarterfinals of the FIFA U20 World Cup with an overtime score of 3:2. Israel’s youth team, which… Continue Reading →

New Details Emerge About Lone Terrorist Who Killed 3 Israeli Soldiers On Egyptian Border

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — New details have emerged about the deadly attack on the Egyptian border early Saturday morning, in which a lone terrorist killed three IDF soldiers, Ori Yitzhak Illouz, Lia Bin-Nun, and Ohad Dahan, raising questions about the level of… Continue Reading →

Apple Set To Unveil Long-Awaited Virtual Reality Headset

Apple appears poised to unveil a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter’s ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public’s imagination. After years… Continue Reading →

DeSantis Wraps Up 1st Early States Tour As Candidate With More Personal Touch In South Carolina

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was wrapping up his first tour of early voting states as a presidential candidate on Friday, showcasing his personal side in South Carolina with a lighthearted sit-down with his wife and an… Continue Reading →

MK Simcha Rothman Grabs Megaphone From Heckler In Manhattan, Who Filed Charges For Harassment

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Protesters against Israeli government policies heckled MK Simcha Rothman as he walked in New York Friday, with some using megaphones behind him to taunt and criticize him. At one point Rothman, who heads the Knesset Law… Continue Reading →

Law Giving Preference To Army Vets In Negev And Galilee Will Also Recognize ‘Value Of Torah Study’ As Criterion

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A bill dubbed “the value of Zionism” submitted by the Jewish Force party last week was postponed due to fears by chareidi MKs that it would harm the value of Torah study. The bill sought to implement… Continue Reading →

Mrs. Chavee Levovitz ע”ה חוה טובה

Family getting up: Shacharis: 8:00 amMincha: 1:45 pmMaariv: 9:30 pm

AOC Parody Account Deleted From Twitter, Possibly Due to Death Threats

(VINnews) — The AOC parody account which made big headlines this week has been deleted from Twitter. According to an unconfirmed report, the operator of the account had received death threats. The account disappeared from Twitter Friday, along with the account… Continue Reading →

Twitter Executive Responsible For Content Safety Resigns After Elon Musk Criticism

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A top Twitter executive responsible for safety and content moderation has left the company, her departure coming soon after owner Elon Musk publicly complained about the platform’s handling of posts about transgender topics. The departure pointed… Continue Reading →

India Train Crash Kills Over 280, Injures 900 In One Of Nation’s Worst Rail Disasters

BALASORE, India (AP) — Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country’s deadliest rail crashes… Continue Reading →

Israelis Rally Against Proposed Judiciary Overhaul Continue For 22nd Week

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered Saturday to protest judicial overhaul plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, the most hard-line in Israel’s history. The weekly protests, now in their 22nd week, continue despite… Continue Reading →

DeSantis Signs Bible, Pence Hops On Motorcycle At ‘Roast and Ride’ Event In Iowa

Amid plates of sliced pork, statement-making leather ensembles and piles of political T-shirts, eight Republican presidential hopefuls descended on Iowa to pitch themselves to voters and, in Mike Pence’s case, hop on a motorcycle. The former vice president and Florida… Continue Reading →

3 Israeli Soldiers Killed After Egyptian Policeman Opens Fire On Them At Southern Border

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a terrorist attack which occurred on Israel’s Southern border early Saturday morning, an Egyptian policeman shot and killed two Israeli soldiers who were manning a guard post near the border. The IDF said that in a… Continue Reading →

Officials: 5,000-acre Wildfire 50% Contained; New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway Still Shut Down

BASS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A long stretch of New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway remained shut down Friday as firefighters worked to contain a 5,000-acre forest fire spewing thick plumes of smoke. The fire broke out Wednesday night in the… Continue Reading →

Minority Owned Businesses, Women Owned Businesses and Shomer Shabbos Owned Businesses

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Go to Amazon and you will see that you can check off buying only from women own businesses or minority owned businesses.  Keeping Shabbos is a declaration to the world that we believe that… Continue Reading →

Israeli, US National Security Advisors Meet At The White House

WASHINGTON (JNS) – Jake Sullivan, national security advisor to U.S. President Joe Biden, hosted Tzachi Hanegbi, his Israeli counterpart, and Ron Dermer, minister of strategic affairs, at the White House on June 1 “to discuss a broad range of global… Continue Reading →

Dev Shah Wins The Scripps National Spelling Bee On The Word ‘Psammophile’

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Fifteen months ago, Dev Shah spent a miserable five hours spelling outdoors in chilly, windy, damp conditions at a supersize regional competition in Orlando, Florida, only to fall short of his dream of returning to… Continue Reading →

The Rabbi in Uniform: Rabbi Chesky and Chani Tenenbaum, JUSA-Chabad, Baltimore, Maryland

Rabbi Chesky and Chani Tenenbaum, JUSA-Chabad, Baltimore, Maryland   The Rabbi in Uniform   Downlaod for Shabbas Reading   After 9/11, my uncle, Colonel Jacob Goldstein, was Chief National Guard Chaplain at Ground Zero. I went to visit him a… Continue Reading →

‘Shrink The Room’: How Biden And McCarthy Struck A Debt-limit Deal And Staved Off A Catastrophe

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was advice that Mitch McConnell had offered to Joe Biden once already: To resolve the debt-limit standoff, he needed to strike a deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — and McCarthy alone. But after the first… Continue Reading →

Bug In Chase Bank Online Banking Causing Double Transactions, Fees

NEW YORK (AP) — Customers of Chase’s online banking services were seeing double transactions, fees and/or payments in their accounts, with the situation not immediately being resolved as of late morning on Friday. Numerous Chase customers were posting on social… Continue Reading →

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