Month June 2023
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Vietjet plane carrying 214 people made an unscheduled but safe landing in the northern Philippines on Wednesday morning after encountering an unspecified technical problem. None of the passengers and crew were hurt. The Civil Aviation… Continue Reading →
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit area woke up Wednesday to some of the worst air quality in the United States as smoke from Canada’s wildfires settled over most of the Great Lakes region and unhealthy haze spread southward, as far… Continue Reading →
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities arrested on Wednesday a man they accused of helping Russia direct a missile strike that killed at least 10 people, including three teenagers, at a popular pizza restaurant in east Ukraine. The Tuesday evening… Continue Reading →
Families Worry Over the Future of Medicaid Caregiver Payments That Were Expanded During the Pandemic
WASHINGTON (AP) – Nathan Hill started receiving $12.75 an hour from a state Medicaid program to help care for his severely disabled son during the pandemic, money he said allowed his family to stop using food stamps. The program was… Continue Reading →
Introducing the Future of Shidduchim with AI-Assisted Suggestions For some people, shidduchim is a dream. They marry the first person who is suggested. They get engaged after a few dates. For many people, shidduchim is a nightmare. With one disappointing… Continue Reading →
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led an armed rebellion against the Russian military — and walked free. Others who merely voiced criticism against the Kremlin weren’t so lucky. On Tuesday, Russia’s main domestic security agency, the FSB,… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, who as a member of Donald Trump’s legal team sought to overturn 2020 presidential election results in battleground states, was interviewed recently by investigators with the Justice Department special counsel’s office, according to a person… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Nearly four in 10 Jerusalemites are Muslim, statistics released Tuesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics show. Some 371,000 Muslims live in Israel’s capital, making up 38% of residents, according to the figures published for the current… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Marine veteran pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the fatal chokehold of a man who was behaving erratically on a New York City subway train. Daniel Penny, 24, pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem on Wednesday with Republican Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, who signed a proclamation of support for the Jewish state on the occasion of 75 years of independence. Netanyahu thanked Reynolds… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JNS) – U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller confirmed on Monday that the United States would be freezing scientific and technological cooperation with Israeli entities in areas over the 1949 armistice line, i.e. in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A conference for educators that featured supporters of LGBTQ conversion therapy went ahead at a hall in Jerusalem on Tuesday after two other locales declined to host the event. The conference, organized by the Even Yisrael organization,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A 12-year-old pupil at a haredi school in Ashkelon was suspended from her studies after the school claimed that her Bat Mitzvah celebration had violated school policy. According to Kan News, the school administration has not allowed… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh raised a storm of controversy after he revealed on Israel’s Galei Tzahal radio station that police had believed that prime minister Netanyahu would resign over the indictments being issued against him. Likud… Continue Reading →
You were in the Borscht Belt during its golden age. I was born in the old Monticello Hospital on Pesach in 1951, so yes. The place was hopping in the 1950s, and I remember it well. There was no way… Continue Reading →
“I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night, and many people… Continue Reading →
During my conversation with Israeli pilot and war veteran turned entrepreneur Kobi Regev, I suggested that he make a specific addition to the lessons and methodology that he and his team impart at The Squadron. But I’ll come back to… Continue Reading →
In a widely viewed recent video clip, an Israeli woman on a bus gave a chareidi man a hard time—about his being chareidi. The bus was in Hod Hasharon, a largely secular town, and the woman probably hadn’t had many… Continue Reading →
TERRA CEIA ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Department of Health has issued a statewide mosquito-borne illness advisory after four locally contracted cases of malaria were reported along the Gulf Coast south of Tampa. On Monday, a health alert issued… Continue Reading →
(VINnews) — Comedian Roseanne Barr has been slammed for comments she made about Jews and the Holocaust during an appearance on a recent podcast. However her comments were taken out of context, and if one listens to the entire clip,… Continue Reading →
(VINnews) — Controversial comedian Roseanne Barr, who has a history of bigoted remarks, made vicious comments about Jews and the Holocaust during an appearance on a recent podcast, sparking an uproar. During the June 14 episode of This Past Weekend,… Continue Reading →