Month September 2022
Stocks are back to falling on Wall Street as worries about a possible recession and rising bond yields put the squeeze back on markets. The S&P 500 fell 2.1% Thursday, reaching its lowest level since late 2020. The washout erased… Continue Reading →
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Judah Samet, a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped a shooting rampage at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, died Tuesday. He was 84. Samet, who survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in World War II, was running a few… Continue Reading →
Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, appeared on Thursday for a voluntary interview with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. The committee has for months sought an interview with Thomas in… Continue Reading →
We are days before Yom Kippur and we all want a year of Nachas from our children. What is the secret? Rav Pam zt”l started Shuvu 30 years ago to help the thousands of children in Eretz Yisroel coming from… Continue Reading →
FAIR LAWN, NJ (VINnews) — Following misleading info that has been circulating, the Fair Lawn Va’ad Ha-Rabbanim have released a statement to the public asserting that the Fair Lawn Chinese Kosher Express establishment is fully Kosher, and not affiliated with… Continue Reading →
The Senate passed a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a partial government shutdown when the current fiscal year ends at midnight Friday and provide another infusion of military and economic aid to Ukraine as it seeks to… Continue Reading →
By Dr. Shloimie Zimmerman, Psy.D. As a psychologist, countless frum boys have shared their stories with me, relaying how they struggled mightily during their adolescence and subsequent years. The vast majority received their only “education” from indecent sources, experienced puberty,… Continue Reading →
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that he believes his party now has a “50-50 shot” of getting the chamber back less than six weeks away from the midterm elections. “We are in a bunch of close races,” McConnell… Continue Reading →
Moments after Hurricane Ian passed Fort Myers, Hatzalah South Florida in coordination with Hatzalah Baltimore and Orlando Hatzalah, mobilized and dispatched teams to assist affected Jewish communities on Florida’s West Coast. The First Responders were called to provide assistance to… Continue Reading →
Police said Wednesday that they are searching for five shooters who ambushed a group of teens outside a Philadelphia high school killing one 14-year-old and wounding four other teenagers after a football scrimmage. Nicholas Elizalde, of suburban Havertown, was killed… Continue Reading →
HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — About 20 members of an extreme ultra-orthodox Jewish sect overpowered guards and escaped a government shelter in southern Mexico where they had been held since one of their leaders was arrested last Friday on organized crime… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Tuesday (10/04/22)Morning Mrs. Sarah SlaterWife Mrs. Rivka BorishDaughter R` Reuven SlaterSon R` Aron Dovid SlaterSon Mrs. Devorah CytrynDaughter Mrs. Tova FriedmanDaughter Mrs. Shana RubinDaughter
Family getting up: Mincha: 6:15 amMaariv: 6:45 pm R’ Akiva Shlomo KrieserFather Mrs. Sare Dena KrieserMother Mrs. Eliza WeitschnerSister Mr. Mordechai Yosef KrieserBrother Mrs. Ruchie LyonsSister
The sentencing of a California man who pleaded guilty to plotting to firebomb the state Democratic Party’s headquarters and other buildings in Northern California after the defeat of former President Donald Trump was delayed Wednesday after a federal judge rejected… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: R’ Shloime KreiserFather Mrs. Dina KreiserMother R’ Mordechai KreiserBrother
FORT MYERS (AP) – Hundreds of hospital patients were being evacuated from facilities across the Fort Myers region Thursday after damage from Hurricane Ian cut off water supplies. One area hospital began assessing the full damage from ferocious winds that… Continue Reading →
All the members of the Lev Tahor cult who were arrested a week ago in Mexico escaped their jail on Wednesday at midnight. However, two Lev Tahor members who were accused of serious crimes are still in Mexican custody as… Continue Reading →
Video from last year shows Rav Chaim Kanievsky Z”L giving a tremendous bracha to all the donors of this organization. The beautiful Yom Tov of Sukkos is almost here. Please, hear the cry of your brothers and sisters in Israel… Continue Reading →
A fire broke out overnight Wednesday in the cardiac surgery department on the fifth floor of Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petach Tikvah. Eight children on respirators were safely evacuated to the hospital’s emergency area and several premature babies were evacuated… Continue Reading →
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A fourth leak on the Nord Stream pipelines has been reported off southern Sweden, the Swedish coast guard said Thursday. “We have leakage at two positions” off Sweden, coast guard spokesperson Mattias Lindholm. There are two more… Continue Reading →
A Johns Hopkins University scientist who created a website to track COVID-19 cases worldwide is the recipient of this year’s Lasker award for public service. The $250,000 awards, announced Wednesday by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, recognize achievements in… Continue Reading →