Month July 2023
IRAQ (JNS) – The Iran-backed Shi’ite militia Kata’ib Hezbollah, which the U.S. State Department designates as a Foreign Terror Organization, is holding a dual Israeli-Russian citizen hostage in Iraq, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office revealed on Wednesday. Elizabeth Tsurkov, a… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The Chazon Ish loved him, and wrote some 80 letters to him in learning.about sugyos throughout Shas. Approximately, 42 years ago (1981-1983), this author was zoche to hear shiurim from HaGaon HaTzaddik Rav Eliezer… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Friday (7/07/23)Morning Mrs. Betty MuehlgayWife R` Heshy MuehlgaySon R` Yehuda (Jefrey) MuehlgaySon Friday will be sitting in Clifton 40 Woodward Ave, Friday Shacharis 7:30, Mincha 1:40 shiva hours until 5:00 PM, Maariv Motzei Shabbos 9:50 / Zman,… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Friday (7/07/23)Morning Mrs. Betty MuehlgayWife R` Heshy MuehlgaySon R` Yehuda (Jefrey) MuehlgaySon Friday will be sitting in Clifton 40 Woodward Ave, Friday Shacharis 7:30, Mincha 1:40 shiva hours until 5:00 PM, Maariv Motzei Shabbos 9:50 / Zman,… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Mincha: 8:10 pm Mrs. Faigy SchwartzDaughter Mrs. Raizy GutweinDaughter
JERUSALEM (JNS) – The number of visitors to the Jewish state has yet to return to pre-COVID levels, according to figures the Tourism Ministry released on Wednesday. In the first half of 2023, 1.97 million tourists entered Israel, spending 11.7… Continue Reading →
ISTANBUL (JNS) – An Israeli father and son were arrested on Tuesday in Istanbul Airport, after attempting to stop a plane by jumping from the passenger boarding bridge. Video footage shared on social media showed the two, who had reportedly… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Dozens of anti-judicial reform demonstrators gathered for a rally on Wednesday morning in front of Har Hamor, a Religious Zionist yeshiva in Jerusalem. The yeshiva is headed by Rabbi Zvi Thau, the spiritual leader of the Noam… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – The Israeli military struck Hamas weapons-making facilities in the Gaza Strip overnight Tuesday, in response to a barrage of rockets launched from the Hamas-controlled enclave. Five rockets were fired into Israeli territory from Gaza, all of which were intercepted… Continue Reading →
Maran Hamekubal, Hagaon Harav Yaakov Meir Shechter, shlit”a, opened his home to the avreicheim geonim of Kollel Shas Yiden UK, who were visiting Eretz Yisroel, for them to celebrate their completion of the entire Shas. They were in Eretz Yisroel to participate in… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On the day when IDF Sergeant-Major David Yitzchak HyD is brought to his final rest at Jerusalem’s Mt. Herzl, Yehonadav Cohen will celebrate his Bar-Mitzvah. Yehonadav had a special attachment to David, who used to meet him… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Although the Three Weeks and the other two fasts are a period of mourning and introspection, Zechariah the Navi tells us (Zechariah 8:19) that eventually, the four fasts of Klal Yisroel will be a source… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A ‘devastating’ house fire apparently caused by a charging electric bike claimed the lives of a British mother and her two children and critically injured her partner, according to a report by the Daily Mail. Gemma… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: IDF soldier Sergeant-Major David Yehuda Yitzchak, a 23-year-old resident of Beit El, was killed in action Tuesday evening during the final stages of the Bayit V’Gan operation in Jenin. Yitzchak, who was a member of the… Continue Reading →
המראיינת מה-BBC העזה לטעון בפניי ש״חיילי צה״ל שמחים להרוג ילדים״ (!). ממש במילים אלה. צפו בתשובה שלי. (מתוך ראיון שלי הערב ל-BBC). pic.twitter.com/RUTZfdmAfo — Naftali Bennett בנט (@naftalibennett) July 4, 2023
David Melech Friedman (born August 8, 1958) served as the United States ambassador to Israel under President Trump from May 15, 2017, until January 20, 2021, having previously been a bankruptcy attorney with the law firm of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres… Continue Reading →
David Melech Friedman (born August 8, 1958) served as the United States ambassador to Israel under President Trump from May 15, 2017, until January 20, 2021, having previously been a bankruptcy attorney with the law firm of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres… Continue Reading →
David Melech Friedman (born August 8, 1958) served as the United States ambassador to Israel under President Trump from May 15, 2017, until January 20, 2021, having previously been a bankruptcy attorney with the law firm of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres… Continue Reading →
“This is an important victory for Americans of all faiths, who may now follow their religious consciences in the workplace.” —Aaron Streett of Baker Botts, attorney for Gerald Groff in Groff vs. DeJoy; Groff was fired by the USPS when… Continue Reading →
“This is an important victory for Americans of all faiths, who may now follow their religious consciences in the workplace.” —Aaron Streett of Baker Botts, attorney for Gerald Groff in Groff vs. DeJoy; Groff was fired by the USPS when… Continue Reading →
Although Mortin (Matisyahu Aharon) Levy, a longtime commodities trader, is now retired, we had to schedule our conversation for early evening because he still follows the stock market throughout the day. Mortin was born in the US in 1937 to… Continue Reading →