Articles by: JewishNews-Ben

Prime Minister Yair Lapid slams Hezbollah in first cabinet meeting

Prime Minister Yair Lapid slams Hezbollah in first cabinet meeting

“Hezbollah continues to terrorize and undermines Lebanon’s ability to reach a maritime agreement. Israel will continue to defend itself.”   Israel will defend itself and… Read More ›

How the Supreme Court ruling will gut the EPA’s ability to fight the climate crisis

How the Supreme Court ruling will gut the EPA’s ability to fight the climate crisis

The Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a major blow to climate action by handcuffing the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate planet-warming emissions from the… Read More ›

US strike in Syria targets ‘senior’ militant – US military

US strike in Syria targets ‘senior’ militant – US military

The strikes targeted Abu Hamzah al Yemeni, a “senior leader” of Al Qaeda-aligned Hurras al-Din.   The United States carried out a strike in Syria’s… Read More ›

Israel to let more Palestinians work in manufacturing to fill labor shortage

Israel to let more Palestinians work in manufacturing to fill labor shortage

Jerusalem approves 3,500 additional permits, increasing the total number to 12,000; Israel employs nearly 100,000 West Bank and Gaza Palestinian workers, Population and Immigration Authority… Read More ›

Deputy: 2 Officers Had Chance To Shoot Uvalde School Gunman

Deputy: 2 Officers Had Chance To Shoot Uvalde School Gunman

  UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Two Uvalde city police officers passed up a fleeting chance to shoot a gunman outside Robb Elementary School before he… Read More ›

Germany to fire up coal stations as Russia squeezes gas supply

Germany to fire up coal stations as Russia squeezes gas supply

  Berlin – Germany must reduce natural gas consumption and increase the burning of coal in order to help fill gas storage facilities for next… Read More ›

New Jersey Town Agrees To Repeal Ordinance Allegedly Aimed At Keeping Out Yeshivas

New Jersey Town Agrees To Repeal Ordinance Allegedly Aimed At Keeping Out Yeshivas

  JACKSON, NK (JTA) – The township of Jackson, New Jersey settled a federal Justice Department lawsuit alleging that a 2017 ordinance banning dormitories sought… Read More ›

WATCH: FL Gov. DeSantis Touts His Strong Friendship To The Jewish Community In NYC Speech

WATCH: FL Gov. DeSantis Touts His Strong Friendship To The Jewish Community In NYC Speech

NEW YORK – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke on Sunday at the Jewish Leadership Conference in New York. DeSantis noted all his accomplishments to the… Read More ›

Russians are on the verge of capturing key Ukrainian city. In neighboring Bakhmut those with nowhere else to go brace for their arrival

Russians are on the verge of capturing key Ukrainian city. In neighboring Bakhmut those with nowhere else to go brace for their arrival

Bakhmut, Ukraine – At first glance Bakhmut doesn’t look like a city at war. As we drove into the city in the Donetsk region of… Read More ›

The Shoolem Ba’as Ladies and Hotzaos Shabbos

The Shoolem Ba’as Ladies and Hotzaos Shabbos

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com In the Chassidish world they are called the, “Shoolem Ba’as ladies.” Translation:  These are housekeepers that work on Fridays… Read More ›

Three attacked in Jerusalem, one lightly injured

Three attacked in Jerusalem, one lightly injured

The trio was chased into French Hill as attackers threw stones and sprayed pepper spray.   Two off-duty Border Police officers and one civilian were… Read More ›

Envoy Says US, Allies Preparing For N. Korean Nuclear Test

Envoy Says US, Allies Preparing For N. Korean Nuclear Test

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Joe Biden’s special envoy for North Korea said Friday the United States is “preparing for all contingencies” in… Read More ›

Complaint: McDonald’s Knowingly Served Muslim Family Bacon

Complaint: McDonald’s Knowingly Served Muslim Family Bacon

BOSTON (AP) — Workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one… Read More ›

Analysis: Serbia’s gas deal with Putin has created a fresh headache for Europe

Analysis: Serbia’s gas deal with Putin has created a fresh headache for Europe

On Sunday, Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vucic announced that his country had agreed to a new three-year gas supply deal with Russia’s state energy provider, Gazprom.… Read More ›

Report: Israel directly warns 100 of its citizens to leave Turkey due to Iran threat

Report: Israel directly warns 100 of its citizens to leave Turkey due to Iran threat

Telephoned alerts come after National Security Council publishes dire travel advisory, as Israel braces for Tehran’s retaliation to assassination of senior IRGC officer   Israeli… Read More ›

Israel refuses US request to transfer Israeli missiles to Ukraine

Israel refuses US request to transfer Israeli missiles to Ukraine

The missiles, which are produced in Germany and would be transferred to Kyiv by the German government, are produced with Israeli technology under an Israeli… Read More ›

Israel may have killed Shireen Abu Akleh in targeted attack – report

Israel may have killed Shireen Abu Akleh in targeted attack – report

Salim Awad, a Jenin resident who filmed the incident, told CNN that there were no armed Palestinians in the area.   Evidence suggests that Palestinian… Read More ›

Jerusalem flag march threatens not only peace, but also democracy

Jerusalem flag march threatens not only peace, but also democracy

Opinion: Supreme Court’s decision to allow unbridled freedom of expression that permits extremists to hold provocative rallies, serve in Knesset, and dictate public discourse, will… Read More ›

Pro-Russia online operatives falsely claimed Zelensky committed suicide in an effort to sway public opinion, cybersecurity firm says

Pro-Russia online operatives falsely claimed Zelensky committed suicide in an effort to sway public opinion, cybersecurity firm says

  Washington – Pro-Russia online operatives falsely claimed weeks into Moscow’s war against Ukraine that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had committed suicide, as part of… Read More ›

Family of deceased patient attacks staff, destroys hospital property

Family of deceased patient attacks staff, destroys hospital property

The patient passed away at the Hadassah-University Medical Center in Mount Scopus from an overdose.   A man in his 20s was arrested at the… Read More ›