Month June 2023
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is offering a new bargain to some adults without health insurance beginning Saturday: Go to work or school and the state will cover you. But advocates decry the plan, which will insure far fewer people than… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 8:00 am Mr. Dovid AdamsSon Friday Until 5:30pm Motzei Shabbos Getting up Sunday after Shacharis Mrs. Bryna DubinDaughter Will not be sitting at this address
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News ushered Geraldo Rivera off the air with cake and balloons on Friday, while he left with a timely reminder that his journalism career was a product of affirmative action. Rivera said that Fox fired… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a case that drew support from a broad array of Jewish groups, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that employers had to show a “substantial” burden to deny workers religious accommodation. In a decision released Thursday, the… Continue Reading →
Rabbi Shmuel and Batya Vishedsky, Chabad of Kobe, Japan A Life Saving Delivery DOWNLOAD FOR SHABBAS READING There is nothing scarier than the unknown, and there were a lot of unknowns when we first started looking for shlichus. We… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Daniel Shapiro, formerly the U.S. ambassador to Israel, will be the Biden administration’s point man in expanding and managing the Abraham Accords, the normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab countries. Shapiro, the ambassador to Israel under… Continue Reading →
(AP) – It was one of the deadliest wildland fires ever in the U.S., killing 19 members of an elite central Arizona firefighting crew in 2013 after flames trapped them in a brush-choked canyon. The city of Prescott and the… Continue Reading →
More than two dozen rabbanim and roshei yeshiva are publicly banning the use of artificial intelligence chatbots such as the wildly popular Chat-GPT. In the kol koreh, the morei derech write that such chats have the ability to ingrain the… Continue Reading →
Elián González 2 Decades On: From a Focus of International Tug-Of-War to a Member of Cuba’s Congress
HAVANA (AP) — Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-strained relations between Cuba and the United States. Now 29, González is… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s claims that absolute presidential immunity and free speech rights shield him from the defamation claims of a New York columnist were rejected Thursday by a federal judge. The writer, E. Jean Carroll,… Continue Reading →
(VINnews) — A staggering eyewitness account has been released, suggesting that Antifa fanned the flames of the January 6th riots, and may have incited them to begin with. A J6 prisoner told the Gateway Pundit that a fellow protester who… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loans for millions of Americans. The 6-3 decision, with conservative justices in the majority, effectively killed… Continue Reading →
(AP) – Did mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin have inside help from the military and political elite in his armed rebellion that rattled Russia? A week after the mutiny raised the most daunting challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s rule in over… Continue Reading →
NANTERRE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is urging parents to keep teenagers at home to quell rioting spreading across France and says social media are fueling copycat violence. After a second crisis meeting with senior ministers, Macron said… Continue Reading →
NEW JERSEY (JTA) – At the first-ever “Kosherpalooza” — a kosher food festival geared toward consumers — savvy attendees knew best to strategize: First, sample everything on the “dairy” side of the convention center (lattes, ice cream, cheeses, pasta, fresh… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Monday (7/03/23)Morning R’ Naftali DembitzerSon R’ Dov DembitzerSon R’ Yoni DembitzerSon Mrs. Elana OstreicherDaughter Mrs. Michal MullerDaughter
WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation index that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve tumbled last month to its lowest level since April 2021, pulled down by lower gas prices and slower-rising food costs. At the same time, consumers barely… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Democratic senators is asking the nation’s consumer finance watchdog to take action against medical credit cards such as CareCredit, saying use of these cards can result in patients paying much more for their… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The Toldos Aharon Rebbe, Rav Dovid Kahn, arrived this week (Monday) at the Har Nof residence of HaGaon HaRav Moshe Sternbuch, before his departure to Austria – for the annual dacha, vacation, and asked… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The right-wing media had a field day with it. “WHAT ON EARTH IS JOE BIDEN DOING? It’s live TV!” said conservative strategist Steve Guest. “YOU sit in the chair, YOU smile at the lady,… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man armed with explosive materials and weapons, and wanted for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was arrested Thursday in the Washington neighborhood where former President Barack Obama lives, law… Continue Reading →