admin | July 19, 2024
(July 18, 2024 / JNS) Reps. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) and Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), chair of the House Republican Conference, led 26 of their Republican colleagues in a letter sent this week to Alan Garber, interim president of Harvard University, citing the inadequacy of the Ivy League schools antisemitism task force.
admin | July 6, 2024
(July 2, 2024 / JNS) The Anti-Defamation League, together with Washington, D.C.-based law firm Crowell & Moring LLP, filed suit on Monday in U.S. federal court against Iran, Syria and North Korea on behalf of American victims of Hamass Oct. 7 massacre
admin | June 27, 2024
JERUSALEM (VINnews) In an effort to save the Israeli yeshiva world which is suffering from huge deficits in the wake of budgetary cuts, Slabodka Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dov Landau left on Motzei Shabbos for the US to solicit emergency funds for the yeshivos. Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email The 94-year-old Rabbi Landau, who heads the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah, is set to establish the World of Torah Fund which will offer support to the yeshivos, whose budgets were cut by the High Court due to the lack of a draft law.
admin | June 27, 2024
Following the dramatic Supreme Court ruling that ordered haredim to enlist in the IDF, Lithuanian charedi leader Rabbi Dov Landau, who is soliciting funds for the yeshivos in the US, slammed the Supreme Courts justices, accusing them of cruelty towards Torah learners, according to a Kikar Hashabbat report Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email The evildoers there and the government have taken the budgets that the yeshivas and kollels (yeshivas for married students ed.) had, and the yeshivas are in a situation where they do not have the ability to continue, he said during the fundraising trip to the US. There are already kollels which have closed
admin | June 27, 2024
ISRAEL (VINnews) Rabbi Zion Cohen, Chief Rabbi of the city of Or Yehuda, held a special Birkas Kohanim (Blessing of a Kohen) for Almog Meir Jan, who was miraculously rescued from captivity in Gaza. Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email According to Arutz Sheva, Rabbi Cohen said: On the Shabbat before Almog was freed, my daughter, a teacher at Beit Yaakov, said to me, Almog is coming back. I said to her: Since when do you know if he will come back or not
admin | June 27, 2024
JERUSALEM (VINnews) Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah raised the belligerence of his rhetoric, publishing a video on Saturday night in which he addressed the possibility of a war with Israel and assured that the group would fight without restraints if necessary. Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email In case an inclusive war is imposed on Lebanon, the resistance will fight without restraints, Nasrallah said. Whoever thinks of a war against us will regret it, he concluded
admin | June 27, 2024
(June 26, 2024 / JNS) Like all those who publish here, I too am a warrior and a wordsmith.
admin | June 27, 2024
(June 25, 2024 / JNS) It seemed like a Jewish version of Wheres Waldo? Zack Raab, former merchandise marketing manager for Team Israel, was presenting a tour around the five-floor offices of the commissioner of Major League Baseball in the former Time & Life Building in Midtown Manhattan.
admin | June 15, 2024
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admin | June 15, 2024
(June 10, 2024 / JNS) For the past three years, its been tough to get a spot in Rabbi Daniel Levines course in major Jewish texts at the University of California, Irvine, which is a requirement for the Judaic studies minor at the public university. It was the most interactive class Ive ever taken at UCI, Nova Sari, a third-year student studying history with minors in computer science and Jewish studies, told JNS.
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