Month June 2023

NEW YORK (JTA) – On Wednesday morning, Alfred Moses, 94, sat in a small white armchair at a round wooden table in a Manhattan office building as a historian gingerly turned the pages of a more than 1,000-year-old book in… Continue Reading →

MADRID (JTA) — Ada Colau, Barcelona’s left-wing mayor who made headlines for breaking off the city’s long-standing relationship with Tel Aviv, was unseated in Sunday’s municipal elections after eight years in power. She was defeated by Xavier Trias, the right-wing… Continue Reading →

POLAND (JTA) – Polish-Canadian historian Jan Grabowski was about to deliver a lecture in Warsaw Tuesday related to his battle against efforts by Polish leaders to suppress uncomfortable truths about the history of antisemitism in the country before and during… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers stepped up their hiring in May, adding a robust 339,000 jobs, well above expectations and evidence of enduring strength in an economy that the Federal Reserve is desperately trying to cool. Friday’s report from… Continue Reading →

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that there can be no cease-fire in the war in Ukraine unless it is part of a “just and lasting” peace deal that includes Russia’s military withdrawal. Blinken… Continue Reading →

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Yesterday, I received a phone call from a Rosh Yeshiva concerning an article that the frum websites had posted about President Biden falling down after a speech he made at the US Airforce Academy… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (JNS) – The recent incident featuring Twitter owner Elon Musk comparing nonagenarian financier and philanthropist George Soros to the supervillain Magneto again opened debate about where legitimate ideological criticism of the prolific political funder ends and antisemitic hate… Continue Reading →

(AP) – JetBlue Airways said Thursday it has agreed to sell Spirit Airlines’ holdings at New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Frontier Airlines if it succeeds in buying Spirit. The announcement seemed designed to persuade regulators to approve JetBlue’s proposed $3.8… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Airbnb sued New York City on Thursday over an ordinance that the company says imposes arbitrary restrictions that would greatly reduce the local supply of short-term rentals. The 2022 ordinance, which the city plans to begin… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fending off a U.S. default, the Senate gave final approval late Thursday to a debt ceiling and budget cuts package, grinding into the night to wrap up work on the bipartisan deal and send it to President… Continue Reading →

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com He uniquely combined Torah knowledge, love of Mussar study, the Lithuanian Torah notion of a Mussar Shmuess, leadership, and a profound love of man. For Torah knowledge, Moreinu HaRav Gershon Edelstein zt’l was unparalleled…. Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money for the long term with these apps because their funds might not be safe during a crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned on Thursday…. Continue Reading →

Budapest (JNS) – Hungary will become the first European Union member state to open an embassy in Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced in Budapest on Wednesday. Speaking at a synagogue affiliated with the Chabad movement, Cohen said that… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (JNS) – The U.S. seeks to silence Israeli opposition to a revived Iran nuclear deal by offering to broker a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal in exchange, Israel Hayom reported on Thursday. Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security… Continue Reading →

(Yaakov M / VINnews) — The Jerusalem Post has again shown its bias against Charedim. In a story Wednesday about a bus driver arrested for abuse of a special-needs child, the Post used an image of a Charedi mother and… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JNS) – After 30 years of legal and political battles, Israel will inaugurate an elevator to improve handicap accessibility at Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs on June 8. The Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration sent out invitations on Wednesday. The… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (JTA) – The largest ever official delegation from the British House of Lords is visiting Israel on a four-day fact finding mission, in a reflection of increasingly close relations between Jerusalem and London. The cross-party group of 20… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK / (JNS) — A New York man has pleaded guilty to assaulting a Jewish man wearing an Israeli military hoodie last December. Suleiman Othman of Staten Island, N.Y., will spend two months in jail and serve three years… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) – Twitter may now be worth one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social media platform just seven months ago. The Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund has reduced the market value of its equity stake in… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Thursday announced sanctions against a group of Iranian and Turkish people and firms accused of plotting to assassinate former U.S. government officials, dual U.S. and Iranian nationals, and dissidents. Three Iran- and Turkey-based… Continue Reading →