Antony Blinken, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, said at a confirmation hearing on Tuesday, January 19, that the Biden administration would not move the U.S. embassy from Jerusalem.
Asked at his confirmation hearing by Senator Ted Cruz if the United States will
(www.theyeshivaworld.com) President Donald Trump, in the waning hours of his presidency, granted clemency to 143 people, but did not preemptively pardon himself or his family.
Two of those pardoned are Eli Weinstein of Lakewood and Sholom Weiss, formerly of
(JNS) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) accused Israel of being “racist” for not distributing coronavirus vaccines to the Palestinian territories, despite the fact that the West Bank is under the control of the Palestinian Authority, and the Gaza Strip is run by the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hamas.
Atara Pietruszka is studying at Darchei Binah in Bayit V’Gan, Jerusalem. She was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Bergenfield and attended RYNJ for elementary school and Bruriah for high school. Her family davens at Ohr Hatorah in Bergenfield.
Her next stop? Stern
(JNS) Sheldon Adelson, the multi-billionaire casino mogul, conservative donor and philanthropist, has died at the age of 87.
Miriam Adelson, Sheldon’s wife, said in a statement that her husband died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of blood cancer.
It has been more than a decade since Turkey and Israel, once strategic partners, broke up badly, with an angry Ankara passionately vowing to isolate Israel internationally. It has also been exactly four years since the two countries decided to give peace a chance once more and appointed ambassadors. They would have to pack up and
Andrew Shafer is studying at Yeshivat Aish HaTorah in the Aish Gesher program in the Old City by the Kotel. He was born and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, and attended Moriah in Englewood for elementary school and SAR Academy for high school. His family davens at East Hill Synagogue in Englewood.
COVID-19 has altered all our lives irrevocably, but for the Meir Panim organization, which for 20 years has been feeding Israel’s hungry, it has upended operations, forcing them to come up with creative solutions. “We’d always received donations of fruit and vegetables, but all our cooked
As the U.S. Senate prepared to certify the results of the presidential election on Wednesday, January 6, protestors stormed the Capitol grounds, with hundreds of people crowding the steps and several gaining access to the building. Both President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden called for the crowds to
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (l) greets Jonathan Pollard upon his arrival in Israel on December 30, 2020. (Credit: JNS.org)
If you’re a New Jersey yeshiva high school student or their parent and, in checking out options for gap-year programs in Israel, you find something strangely familiar about Yeshivat Ashreinu in Beit Shemesh—no, it’s not your imagination. It’s the school’s strong roots in New Jersey.
Three of the Yeshiva’s administrators/instructors
(Israel Hayom via JNS) Jonathan Pollard landed in Israel early Wednesday morning, December 30, one month after his parole restrictions were lifted and five years after he was released from U.S. federal prison after serving 30 years for spying for Israel. He was accompanied on the flight by his wife, Esther. Due to Esther’s