The Los Angeles community has once again suffered a painful blow with the petira of Mrs Chaya Sarah Malka Goldberg. Mrs Goldberg (38 years old) suffered in excruciating pain for
The State Department says it’s paying more than $2 million per month to provide 24-hour security to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a former top aide, both of whom face “serious and credible” threats from Iran. The department told Congress in a report that the cost of protecting Pompeo and former Iran envoy […]
Russian troops are pressing their offensive across Ukraine, pounding populated areas with artillery and airstrikes and deploying siege tactics honed in Syria and Chechnya — where front line cities were reduced to rubble. The port city of Mariupol was again a focus of intense shelling Saturday, with Russian forces striking an area around a mosque […]
The Czech Republic is asking the European Union to provide it with modular containers to house the refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said Saturday his
Chief Rabbi of Odessa HaRav Avraham Wolf returned to Odessa on Thursday after a number of days in Berlin, Germany. In an interview with COL Radio on Friday, Rav Wolf spoke about his trip to Germany and his return to his embattled city. “We took the children from our orphanage to safety last week,” he said. […]
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he’s open for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Israel, but only if there is a cease-fire in place. Zelenskyy said Saturday he told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that he would be ready to meet Putin in Jerusalem. Bennett visited Moscow for a meeting with Putin and spoke […]
Representatives from Agudath Israel of America held a high-level emergency meeting with officials from numerous European countries to discuss and streamline ongoing extensive efforts by the Agudah and other organizations
A late winter storm blowing into the northeastern United States on Saturday had forecasters warning of as much as a foot of snow and high winds after the system brought
Purim is fast approaching! Please, hear the cry of your brothers and sisters in Israel and send financial help! The money raised will be distributed on Purim Day, making this a
North Korea has tested parts of its biggest intercontinental ballistic missile in two recent launches, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said, a suggestion it is likely to fire that weapon soon to put a spy satellite into orbit in what would be its most significant provocation in years. Separately, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said […]
A shrinking number of well-known companies are still doing business in Russia, even as hundreds have announced plans to curtail ties. Burger King restaurants are open, Eli Lilly is supplying
Airstrikes are devastating cities in Ukraine while efforts to displace residents are ongoing frenziedly. What was once a cheerful, beautiful city is now a wreckage strewn with garbled metal. With
Republican U.S. senators are imploring the Biden administration to reverse course and allow the transfer of Poland’s MiG fighter jets to the Ukrainians to fight the Russian invasion, a sign the Defense Department’s rejection of the offer may be running into steep resistance on Capitol Hill. Forty GOP senators signed onto a letter Thursday from […]
The European Union’s foreign policy chief said Friday that “a pause” was needed in the ongoing talks over Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers, blaming “external factors” for the delay. The comments by Josep Borrell come as a roadmap appeared imminent for the United States to rejoin an accord it unilaterally withdrew from in […]
As Western leaders congratulate themselves for their speedy and severe responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, they’re also scratching their heads with uncertainty about what their actions will accomplish. The U.S., NATO and the European Union have focused on strangling Russia’s economy and arming Ukrainian fighters. But it’s unclear how this will stop the war. […]
As Russia intensifies its assault on Ukraine, it is getting a helping hand from China in spreading inflammatory and unsubstantiated claims that the U.S. is financing biological weapons labs in Ukraine. The U.S. has been quick to refute Russia’s conspiracy theory, and the United Nations has said it has received no information that would back […]
While the practical and medical needs of the refugees from the Ukrainian war have elicited a massive international response, the emotional and mental toll the crisis is taking on refugees—as well as the global community at large—is getting far less attention. In recent days, Chai Lifeline has been working to fill that gap by providing […]
Acheinu Bnei Yisrael, A relative of Rav Chaim Kanievsky is in great distress. He is tormented by creditors day and night. They are threatening to take away his house and
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine now in its third week, Russian forces appear to be expanding the offensive by striking new areas in the west of the country. Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the recruitment of “volunteers” from Syria and elsewhere to fight in Ukraine. The war has forced more than 2.3 million people […]
President Joe Biden will announce Friday that, along with the European Union and the Group of Seven countries, the U.S. will move to revoke “most favored nation” trade status for Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the […]
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