Month March 2021
Do you need to say Birchos Hatorah after sleeping in an airplane? from Jewish Content Network on Vimeo. A new Dirshu video visually illustrates the halachic dilemmas solved in the Sefer Hamafteach ⌃ Sefer Hamafteach, a posek in your… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – New Yorkers can now possess and use up to 3 ounces of cannabis under a legalization bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, while sales of recreational-use marijuana won’t become legal for an estimated 18 months… Continue Reading →
In a sharp rebuke to Trump-era policies, Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday formally scrapped a blueprint championed by his predecessor to limit U.S. promotion of human rights abroad to causes favored by conservatives like religious freedom and property… Continue Reading →
As of Monday, April 5, 2021, individuals in New Jersey, age 16 and over with intellectual and developmental disabilities are eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The Lakewood School District, with the assistance of Senator Singer, has partnered with Chemed… Continue Reading →
This video, a visit to Kedem Winery and more Pesachim for Pesach videos available on the All daf app and at https://alldaf.org/series/4105
Israeli election officials Wednesday handed over the results of last week’s vote to President Reuven Rivlin, nudging forward the country’ elusive efforts to break the political deadlock, form a government and avoid an unprecedented fifth consecutive round of balloting. Rivlin… Continue Reading →
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Students who once shopped at a downtown mall in Burlington, Vermont, are now attending high school in the former Macy’s department store, with gleaming white tile floors and escalators whisking them to and from classes. The… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated a racially diverse and overwhelmingly female group to federal and other judgeships, including three Black women for the U.S. courts of appeals, one pathway to the Supreme Court. Biden promised as a candidate to… Continue Reading →
Thank you Mendy Schwartz!
The Lakewood community was mourning the tragic Petira of Yaakov Ben-David Z”L, 20, who was Niftar in a tragic boating accident. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office in Iowa, say that the Niftar along with another victim identified as Derek Nanni,… Continue Reading →
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Wednesday that they have dropped an investigation of a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard after he declined to be questioned following his deportation from the United States. Friedrich Karl Berger arrived in his… Continue Reading →
Volkswagen of America issued false statements this week saying it would change its brand name to “Voltswagen,” to stress its commitment to electric vehicles, only to reverse course Tuesday and admit that the supposed name change was a joke. Mark… Continue Reading →
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s new foreign minister says she considers the opening of the country’s embassy in Jerusalem to be “a done deal.” Foreign Minister Donika Gervalla was asked during an interview about the pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip… Continue Reading →
Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before they head back to school in the fall. Most COVID-19 vaccines… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli election officials Wednesday handed over the results of last week’s vote to President Reuven Rivlin, nudging forward the country’ elusive efforts to break political deadlock, form a government and avoid an unprecedented fifth consecutive round of… Continue Reading →
By Boaz Bismuth, Caroline Glick and Ariel Kahane On Nov. 21, 1985, at 10 a.m., Jonathan Pollard and his then-wife arrive at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. He still recalls what happened in those moments, second by second, as if… Continue Reading →
The House Ethics Committee upheld a $5,000 fine against Rep. Louie Gohmert on Tuesday after he was accused of failing to submit to a full security screening when entering the chamber’s floor last month. The penalty levied on the Texas… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A parolee convicted of killing his mother nearly two decades ago was arrested on charges including felony assault as a hate crime for attacking an Asian American woman near New York City’s Times Square, police said… Continue Reading →
The last three Jewish families in Yemen were quietly deported from the country by the Iranian-supported Houthi rebels, leaving only five elderly Jews in the country, according to a report over the weekend by the London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat…. Continue Reading →
After a year during which HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein refrained from holding kabalas kahal due to the pandemic, thousands arrived for “kabbalas pnei rabo” at his home in Bnei Brak on Monday, the first day of Chol Hamoed in Israel…. Continue Reading →