Articles by: JewishNews-Ester

Governor Hochul Announces $2.6 Million In Funding For The Holocaust Survivors Initiative

Governor Hochul Announces $2.6 Million In Funding For The Holocaust Survivors Initiative

BORO PARK — Governor Kathy Hochul today announced $2.6 million in funding provided by the FY 2023 Enacted Budget to support the Holocaust Survivors Initiative. This funding, to be… Read More ›

IDF artillery targets southern Lebanon after rocket fire

IDF artillery targets southern Lebanon after rocket fire

This comes after several rockets were fired last week from the Gaza Strip towards southern Israel.   The IDF targeted sites in southern Lebanon with… Read More ›

Managing Palestinian conflict requires Israeli discretion

Managing Palestinian conflict requires Israeli discretion

Opinion: Facing tension with the Palestinians, Jerusalem would do right not to get dragged into another operation in Gaza or West Bank riots; Israel must… Read More ›

May a Pesach Group Forbid Others From Their Minyan??

May a Pesach Group Forbid Others From Their Minyan??

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is estimated that in the 2022 Pesach season there are over 80,000 in Orlando alone. There are more… Read More ›

Russia-Ukraine war: 400 foreign fighters in Mariupol surrounded – Russia

Russia-Ukraine war: 400 foreign fighters in Mariupol surrounded – Russia

Air raid sirens reported throughout the country * Russians assault near Mariupol seaport * No humanitarian corridors today   Russia gave holdout Ukrainian soldiers an… Read More ›

For the sake of Israel’s defense, terrorists are better caught alive than dead

For the sake of Israel’s defense, terrorists are better caught alive than dead

Opinion: So far, all attacks in this current terror wave have ended with the killing of the attacker, but it does not always have to… Read More ›

Russian warship sinks in the Black Sea after Ukraine claims it was hit by a missile

Russian warship sinks in the Black Sea after Ukraine claims it was hit by a missile

One of the Russian Navy’s most important warships has sunk in the Black Sea, a massive blow to a military struggling against Ukrainian resistance 50… Read More ›

YAAKOV M: Tuesday’s Mass Shooting is More Proof that Jews Need to Vote Republican

YAAKOV M: Tuesday’s Mass Shooting is More Proof that Jews Need to Vote Republican

The subway attack this week could have been prevented. Not by tougher gun laws, but by locking up repeat criminals and keeping them behind bars.… Read More ›

US military confirms an interstellar meteor collided with Earth

US military confirms an interstellar meteor collided with Earth

One meteor traveled quite a long way from home to visit Earth. Researchers discovered the first known interstellar meteor to ever hit Earth, according to… Read More ›

1st US ambassador to Ukraine: ‘I think we handled it wrong from the get-go’

1st US ambassador to Ukraine: ‘I think we handled it wrong from the get-go’

  Ukraine’s first President, waiting to see America’s 41st, chatted with a White House press aide — in Ukrainian. George H.W. Bush’s deputy secretary of… Read More ›

If he plays his cards right, Gantz could emerge as next premier

If he plays his cards right, Gantz could emerge as next premier

Analysis: Following Idit Silman’s dramatic coalition exit, the ball seems to be in defense minister’s court, with Gantz finally having a reason to believe that… Read More ›

OP-ED: How Naftali Bennett doomed his own coalition

OP-ED: How Naftali Bennett doomed his own coalition

The Yamina PM’s fatal political failure was in choosing a Knesset slate that, unlike those of all his 7 coalition partners, has proved unwilling to… Read More ›

Israel’s ‘lone wolf’ terror wave set to be overrun by packs

Israel’s ‘lone wolf’ terror wave set to be overrun by packs

Analysis: Shooting spree in Bnei Brak, unlike attacks in Be’er Sheva and Hadera, was organized by a terror cell, and while security forces focus their… Read More ›

3 Terrorists Eliminated By Police Special Unit In Samaria Firefight, 4 Policemen Injured

3 Terrorists Eliminated By Police Special Unit In Samaria Firefight, 4 Policemen Injured

JERUSALEM — Three Islamic Jihad terrorists on their way to perpetrate a terror attack in Israel were eliminated on Friday night during a firefight with… Read More ›

Viktor Orban, the EU leader who can’t quit Putin, faces a united front in Hungary’s election

Viktor Orban, the EU leader who can’t quit Putin, faces a united front in Hungary’s election

Six weeks ago, Hungary’s election campaign looked and sounded very different. The stakes were already high. Viktor Orban, the longest-serving national leader in the European… Read More ›

Top US general in Europe says there ‘could be’ an intelligence gap in US that caused US to overestimate Russia’s capabilities

Top US general in Europe says there ‘could be’ an intelligence gap in US that caused US to overestimate Russia’s capabilities

The top US general in Europe said Tuesday there “could be” a gap in US intelligence gathering that caused the US to overestimate Russia’s capability… Read More ›

TERROR: Six Injured, Two Murdered In Shooting Attack In Hadera

TERROR: Six Injured, Two Murdered In Shooting Attack In Hadera

HADERA — Six people have been injured in a shooting attack in Hadera on Sunday evening. In addition, two police were killed. The gunmen were… Read More ›

Shanghai to lock down each half of city for mass Covid-19 testing

Shanghai to lock down each half of city for mass Covid-19 testing

Shanghai has said it will lock down each half of the city by turns for mass Covid-19 testing starting Monday amid surging infections. The eastern… Read More ›

Israeli political leaders across the board condemn deadly terror attack

Israeli political leaders across the board condemn deadly terror attack

Bennett posts condolences on Twitter, says terrorists and their helpers will be chased down and prosecuted; Ra’am party says Arab citizens reject violence, calls for… Read More ›

Hesped Of Rav Chaim’s Son, Rav Shlomo Kanievski: My Father Wouldn’t Eat Without My Mother

Hesped Of Rav Chaim’s Son, Rav Shlomo Kanievski: My Father Wouldn’t Eat Without My Mother

JERUSALEM — Rabbi Shlomo Kanievski, the younger son of Rav Chaim Kanievski Zts’l, related personal reminiscences from growing up with his father: “Abba, how did… Read More ›