Month July 2023
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The two leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination courted conservative women at the Moms for Liberty conference in Philadelphia on Friday, elevating a group that has gained substantial influence within the GOP with its fierce opposition… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) – Nearly a week after a controversial Brandeis University advertisement, which many saw as critical of Orthodox Judaism, appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Ronald D. Liebowitz, president of the university, emailed a July 30 statement to… Continue Reading →
PICKENS, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump marked a return to the large-scale rallies of his previous presidential campaigns, speaking to a massive crowd gathered in the streets of a small South Carolina city on a blazing summer weekend…. Continue Reading →
(AP) – Social media companies are once again under scrutiny, this time in France as the country’s president blames TikTok, Snapchat and other platforms for helping fuel widespread riots over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver. On Friday,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – In a move that caught travel insiders by surprise, El Al Israel Air Lines and Delta Air Lines announced a “strategic partnership” the companies say will make traveling easier for passengers flying between Israel and the United States. Under the… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows. Humans and animals naturally pick up static charges as they… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – After years of delays, the Tel Aviv Light Rail’s first line is scheduled to start operating by the end of the month, the Transport Ministry announced Sunday. The 24-km. (15-mile) Red Line, which connects the coastal city… Continue Reading →
BERLIN (AP) — A new cable car that allows visitors without skis to cross between Switzerland and Italy near the Matterhorn, one of the most famous Alpine peaks, went into service on Saturday. The operator, Matterhorn Zermatt Bergbahnen, says the… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has gifted outgoing U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides with a diplomatic passport in appreciation of the latter’s service. “That’s so, so cool,” said Nides upon receiving the document during a send-off meeting with… Continue Reading →
Australia is now the first country to allow psychiatrists to prescribe certain psychedelic substances to patients with depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. Beginning Saturday, Australian physicians can prescribe doses of MDMA, also known as ecstasy, for PTSD. Psilocybin, the psychoactive… Continue Reading →
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia is now the first country to allow psychiatrists to prescribe certain psychedelic substances to patients with depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. Beginning Saturday, Australian physicians can prescribe doses of MDMA, also known as ecstasy, for PTSD…. Continue Reading →
Airline passengers who have endured tens of thousands of weather-related flight delays this week got a welcome respite from the headaches Saturday, despite concerns about possible disruptions caused by new wireless 5G systems rolling out near major airports. The number… Continue Reading →
Satellite images analyzed by the Associated Press on Saturday showed what appeared to be a newly built military-style camp in Belarus, with statements from a Belarusian guerrilla group and officials suggesting it may be used to house fighters from the… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Mayor Eric Adams doubled down on comments he made Wednesday, comparing an 84-year-old whose family fled the Holocaust to a plantation owner. At a town hall event in Hamilton Heights on Wednesday, Adams was interrupted by… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — By the time Martin DuPain got back home from a short walk Thursday afternoon, he was covered with a smattering of tiny flying critters. They were in his hair, on his shirt and in his nose…. Continue Reading →
PARIS (JTA) – A Holocaust memorial in a suburb of Paris was defaced late last week amid widespread protests of the police killing of a French teen. The memorial in Nanterre — the inner-ring suburb where the teen, who has… Continue Reading →
Two patients are in critical condition following a fire in an apartment building in Flatbush. The fire started at around 9:40AM, in a 6th floor apartment at 1347 East 17th Street between Avenue M and Avenue N. Flatbush Hatzolah and… Continue Reading →
Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the amount of tweets that most users can view each day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform. The site is… Continue Reading →
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby apologized Friday for hopping on a private plane to get out of the New York area earlier this week while thousands of United passengers were stranded because the airline canceled so many flights. “Taking a… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A chareidi couple from Antwerp attempted to pass through the green route at the Ben Gurion airport customs checkpoint but were brought back for suitcase checking, which revealed that they were carrying 868 packets of imported cigarettes… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — For the fourth consecutive time, the Chabad House in Rehavia, a neighborhood in central Jerusalem, has been targeted for vandalism by anonymous elements. Surveillance cameras showed the suspect early Friday morning breaking property and tearing up and… Continue Reading →