Facebook said Tuesday it will temporarily pause its ban on political advertising in the U.S. to allow ads for the Georgia runoff elections for the state’s two Senate seats. The broader political ad ban for the rest of the country still stands. The social media giant banned new election and political ads six weeks ago, […]
A Dutch court on Wednesday rejected a restitution case brought by heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned a painting by Wassily Kandinsky that was bought by the city of Amsterdam at an auction in 1940. Amsterdam District Court upheld a 2018 ruling by the Netherlands’ restitution committee that the artwork titled “Painting With […]
Rabbanit Orit Salomon tells the inspiring story of Lala Sulika HY”D Click HERE or visit www.YadLachim.org to submit names or call 866-923-5224 Yad L’Achim, the organization that helps rescue Jewish women and children
More than a month after the election, top Republicans finally acknowledged Joe Biden as the next U.S. president on Tuesday, a collapse in GOP resistance to the millions of voters who decisively chose the Democrat. Foreign leaders joined the parade, too, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Speaking from the floor of the U.S. Senate where Biden […]
A western Kansas mayor announced Tuesday that she is resigning, effective immediately, because of threats she has received after she publicly supported a mask mandate. Dodge City Mayor Joyce Warshaw
Some of America’s most deeply held secrets may have been stolen in a disciplined, monthslong operation being blamed on elite Russian government hackers. The possibilities of what might have been purloined are mind-boggling. Could hackers have obtained nuclear secrets? COVID-19 vaccine data? Blueprints for next-generation weapons systems? It will take weeks, maybe years in some […]
By: Sara Yocheved Rigler Like all the residents of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, our family was dedicated to Kiruv Rehokim. We routinely had Shabbos guests for whom it was their very first Shabbos, for whom introducing them to a little Yiddishkeit was like opening a door to an unknown world. Many of […]
California is distributing 5,000 body bags mostly to the hard-hit Los Angeles and San Diego areas and has 60 refrigerated trailers standing by as makeshift morgues in anticipation of a
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro congratulated U.S. President-elect Jose Biden, becoming the last major Latin American leaders to do so. Both the Mexican and Brazilian leaders were seen as close to Donald Trump. Bolsonaro wrote in his Twitter account: “Greetings to President Joe Biden, with my best wishes and the […]
The amazing dream and the tefila that was accepted * The remarkable Gaon, head of the Sanhedrin in the time of Napoleon * New from the House of ‘Machon Yerushalayim’
Was it real? It’s all been erased so completely, so much blood has been shed and destruction wreaked over the past decade. The idea that there was a moment when millions across the Middle East wanted freedom and change so much that they took to the streets seems like romantic nostalgia. “It was very brief, […]
A New York judge on Tuesday ordered President Donald Trump’s company to give state investigators documents related to a suburban estate that’s the subject of a civil investigation into the family’s business practices. Judge Arthur Engoron said the Trump Organization must turn over to the New York attorney general’s office all communications involving Ralph Mastromonaco, […]
Fending off a messy fight that could damage Republicans ahead of Georgia Senate runoffs, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned fellow GOP senators on Tuesday not to join President Donald Trump’s extended assault on the Electoral College results. In public remarks and private warnings, McConnell worked to push ahead to the Biden era and unite a […]
Hashem’s Hidden Hand By Rabbi Shaya Winiarz Here’s a riddle: has Covid-19 been good for the Jews or bad? The answer is: yes. (Classic Jewish answer!) You surely know how
MK Zvi Hauser (Derech Eretz), chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, warned the Israeli public on Monday about a potential prisoner swap that Israel is reportedly negotiating with Hamas. Hamas is currently in desperate need of medical aid due to the spread of the coronavirus in the Gaza Strip and Israel is […]
As we celebrate the miracles of Chanuka, we also daven for miracles yet to come. And this year, we are going to stand before that wide-open gate, together. On Zos
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada has contracted to receive up to 168,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine before the end of December, pending approval by the
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein spoke to Israeli media station Reshet Bet on Tuesday and said that should Israel continue on its current trend of increase in morbidity rate that it is currently undergoing, then another lockdown is looming and is expected to begin next week. “We will be forced to shut down retail and trade,” […]
A military court in Lebanon on Monday sentenced a political activist to three years of hard labor for collaborating with Israel, Lebanon’s state-run news agency reported. The National News Agency said Kinda El-Khatib was sentenced for allegedly visiting Israel, contacting Israeli agents and providing them with security information. Lebanon and Israel are in a state […]
Rabbanit Orit Salomon tells the inspiring story of Lala Sulika HY”D Click HERE or visit www.YadLachim.org to submit names or call 866-923-5224 Yad L’Achim, the organization that helps rescue Jewish women and children
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