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[Swedish Authorities Probe Mohel For Not Using Anesthesia When Circumcising 8-day-old Babies]( STOCKHOLM (JNS) – Health Ministry officials in Sweden have launched a review into the actions of a rabbi and physician for circumcising Jewish infants without anesthesia. Separately, the parliament in neighboring Denmark on Tuesday voted against a nonbinding draft motion calling on the government to ban the nonmedical circumcision of boys. The review in Sweden […] [Read More »]( [US Says It Opposes UN Resolution Calling For Gaza Cease-fire]( UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States said Wednesday it opposes a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers, reiterating that it could interfere with the Biden administration’s efforts to end the hostilities. France drafted the resolution after the U.S. blocked at least four […] [Read More »]( [Pro-palestinian Activists Storm British Factory Co-owned By Israeli Defense Firm Elbit]( UNITED KINGDOM (JTA) – Pro-Palestinian activists in the United Kingdom have occupied a factory co-owned by the Israeli defense firm Elbit to protest Israel’s actions in Gaza. Several members of the Palestine Action group on Wednesday climbed up on the roof of the building in Leicester, a city located about 100 miles northwest of London, […] [Read More »]( [Seller Of Vaccine Disinformation Has YouTube Channel Removed]( NEW YORK (AP) – A major online seller of disinformation about COVID-19 and its vaccines has had one of its channels removed from YouTube, days after an Associated Press investigation detailed how they work with other spreaders of false information to make money. The Truth About Vaccines YouTube channel was taken down this week, Ty […] [Read More »]( [Alexandria Ocasio-cortez Leads Push In Congress To Block Arms Sale To Israel]( WASHINGTON (JTA) – A trio of progressive Congress members is about to propose a resolution to block a $735 million weapons sale to Israel over concerns about its actions in Gaza, Jewish Currents reported, citing an early draft of the resolution. The sponsors of the legislation targeting the transfer of precision-guided missiles to Israel are […] [Read More »]( [UK Police Arrest 2 Men They Say Assaulted Rabbi In A Hate Crime]( LONDON (JTA) – Two men have been arrested in the attack of a rabbi near London in what police called a hate crime. The suspects, aged 18 and 25, were arrested Monday “in connection with a religiously aggravated assault in Chigwell,” a police spokesperson told The Sun newspaper. The arrest came a day after the […] [Read More »]( [Passenger Weigh Ins A New Reality in US Airports?]( NEW YORK (VINnews) – Forget about getting your baggage weighed next time you check in at the airport. Pending requirements from the Federal Aviation Administration may have you stepping on the scale to ensure that your plane’s weight and balance fall within allowable safety limits. An FAA advisory circular published in May 2019 informed airlines […] [Read More »]( [Islamic Jihad Leader Says Expected ‘Costly’ Battle]( BEIRUT — The leader the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group says militant factions in Gaza went into the latest battle with Israel knowing it will be “costly but also knowing that it is the only road to freedom and to protect Jerusalem.” Ziad Nakhaleh said in a televised speech from Beirut on Wednesday that neither nuclear […] [Read More »]( [GOP Seeks Political Opening Amid Tense Israel-hamas Fighting]( WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans trying to drive a wedge between Democrats and chip away at President Joe Biden’s support are zeroing in on the violence in the Middle East, laying blame on his administration and aiming to make his liberal critics the face of the party heading into the midterm elections. GOP Sens. Ted Cruz […] [Read More »]( [China Authorities Evacuate, Investigate Shaking Skyscraper]( BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in the southern Chinese tech center of Shenzhen have evacuated a 70-story skyscraper after it began swaying and are investigating the cause. Thousands of people in the SEG Plaza and surrounding areas fled after it wobbled on Tuesday. The Shenzhen government said no additional swaying had been detected since Tuesday and […] [Read More »]( [Countdown Begins To Discover Where Columbus Came From]( MADRID (AP) — Was Christopher Columbus really from Genoa, in Italy? Or was he Spanish? Or, as some other theories have it, was he Portuguese or Croatian or even Polish? A definitive answer to the question of where the famous explorer came from could be just five months away as international scientists on Wednesday launched […] [Read More »]( [JetBlue Sets Date For Start Of Flights Between Us And London]( NEW YORK (AP ) – JetBlue Airways said Wednesday it will start transatlantic service late this summer, competing against bigger rivals on the lucrative route between New York and London. The airline said it will start daily flights between JFK and Heathrow airports on Aug. 11, and add daily trips from JFK to London’s second-biggest […] [Read More »]( [Leading Candidates For Israeli President: Yitzchak Herzog And Miriam Peretz]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The two leading candidates for the 11th Israeli president, who will be chosen by the Knesset on June 2nd, are Yitzchak Herzog, son of Israel’s 6th president Chaim Herzog and grandson of Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Herzog, and Miriam Peretz, a bereaved mother who lost two sons in battle but has become a […] [Read More »]( [How To Ease Out Of Mortgage Forbearance, Avoid Foreclosure]( WASHINGTON (AP) – American homeowners were given more opportunity to hit pause on their mortgage payments because of the financial ravages of the pandemic, but that relief is slowly coming to an end. About 3 million people are behind on their mortgage, the most at any time since the Great Recession, according to the Consumer […] [Read More »]( [Opinion: AP Pretends It Didn’t Know It Was Sharing A Building With Hamas]( WASHINGTON (JNS/DANIEL GREENFIELD) – You can absolutely trust the Associated Press’s coverage of Israel. After an Israeli airstrike took out a building in the Gaza Strip with tenants that included Hamas and Al Jazeera, controlled by Qatar, a backer of Hamas, the main story in the media was about … the media. Specifically, the AP‘s presence in […] [Read More »]( [Netanyahu ‘Determined’ To Continue Gaza Operation]( GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he is “determined to continue this operation until its aim is met,” despite U.S. President Joe Biden’s call for a de-escalation of hostilities in Gaza. In a statement from the his office Wednesday, Netanyahu said that he “greatly appreciates the support of […] [Read More »]( [Egypt Awaits Israel Response To Cease-fire Plan]( CAIRO — An Egyptian diplomat says some of the country’s top officials are waiting for Israel’s response to a cease-fire offer, and that they expect amendments to their proposal. He says they hope France’s increasing efforts could spur the United States to exert its influence on Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to […] [Read More »]( [Israel’s Police Chief In Hot Seat For Likening Both Arab And Jewish Rioters To ‘Terrorists’]( JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israel Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai sparked an uproar on Tuesday night during a visit to the embattled city of Lod in central Israel when he called both Arab and Jewish rioters “terrorists.” “We will bring anyone who disrupted the public order and engaged in vandalism to justice. It doesn’t matter right now […] [Read More »]( [Gazan Kids Celebrate Ramadan In Israeli Hospital, Despite Rockets]( JERUSALEM (JNS) – Twenty-one foreign children recovering from heart surgery in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon slept in a bomb shelter last week—just like thousands of Israelis—as air-raid sirens warned of incoming missiles from Gaza. Some of the children, and their mothers, are Gazan Palestinians. That’s par for the course at Save a Child’s Heart […] [Read More »]( [Israel accuses Chinese state TV of ‘blatant antisemitism’]( BEIJING (AP) — Israel’s Embassy in China is protesting what it describes as “blatant antisemitism” on a program run by the overseas channel of state broadcaster CCTV discussing the ongoing violence in Gaza and elsewhere. In a tweet, the embassy said “we have hoped that the times of the ‘Jew’s controlling the world’ conspiracy theories […] [Read More »]( [White House: Biden Tells Israeli Leader That He Expects ‘Significant De-escalation” Wednesday On Path To Cease-fire]( WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden greatly increased the pressure on Israel to end the war with the Palestinians that has killed more than 200 people, telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a telephone call Wednesday that he expected “significant de-escalation” by day’s end. Biden asked Netanyahu to move “toward the path to a cease-fire,” […] [Read More »]( [Israeli Arab Receives Kidney Donation From Yigal Yehoshua, Murdered In Lod By Israeli Arabs]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an ironic twist of fate, an Israeli Arab woman received a kidney transplanted from the body of Yigal Yehoshua, the 56-year-old Israeli who died of his wounds after being stoned by Israeli Arab terrorists in Lod. Nivin Awis, daughter of Randa Awis, a resident of the Beit Tzafafa suburb of Jerusalem, […] [Read More »]( [Israel: Hamas Rocket Misfired In Gaza Killing Eight Members Of Palestine Family]( TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli military officials say a mysterious explosion that killed eight members of a Palestinian family on the first day of the current round of fighting in the Gaza Strip was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket, not an Israeli airstrike. Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a military spokesman, said the rocket was […] [Read More »]( [Netanyahu: Israel Aims At ‘Forceful Deterrence’ But Could ‘Conquer’ Hamas]( TEL AVIV, Israel — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is pursuing “forceful deterrence” against Gaza’s Hamas rulers and does not rule out a further escalation. Meeting with foreign ambassadors on Wednesday, he said “you can either conquer them, and that’s always an open possibility, or you can deter them.” “We are engaged right now […] [Read More »]( [Biden To Rep. Rashida Tleib: ‘From My Heart, I Pray That Your Grandmother On The West Bank Is Well’]( NEW YORK (VINnews) — In his speech in Dearborn, Michigan, a town where a third of the population identify as Arab Americans, President Biden made a point of addressing Michigan Rep. Rashida Tleib, whose parents are of Palestinian origin and whose grandmother still lives in Judea. Biden spoke emotionally, stating that “from my heart, I […] [Read More »]( [And Then A Strong East Wind Blew The Rocket Into The Sea And I Screamed “There Is A G-d”]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — This story appeared on Hebrew social media sites this week, although it refers to a true event which occurred a few years ago. “On Sunday A. who is the commander of an Iron Dome defense system, called me up. He was my student 6 years ago, and I was happy to hear […] [Read More »]( [30 Russian Couples Marry In Moving Cable Cars, Setting New Record]( NEW YORK (VINnews) — Marriage has been described before as a bumpy ride, but for 30 Russian couples it started out literally on a swinging cable car. The couples made their vows while on a 720 meter cable car ride on a rainy day in Moscow. They also hoped to break a Guiness world record […] [Read More »]( [Mrs. Mildred Schwartz ע”ה Milkah Leah Bas Shmuel Eliyahu]( Family getting up: Mrs. Shari SchwartzDaughter [Read More »]( [Retailer Results So Far Show People Are Going Out, Spending]( NEW YORK (AP) — At Walmart, sales of teeth whitener are popping as customers take their masks off. So are travel items. Macy’s says that special occasion dressing like prom dresses are on the upswing as well as luggage, men’s tailored clothing, and dressy sandals. Shoppers, newly vaccinated, are emerging from their homes and going […] [Read More »]( [Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l and the Army Uniforms]( By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It was a complex Hilchos Shabbos question. Or so it seemed. A supply truck had arrived on a Shabbos with replacement uniforms for the soldiers. Rav Ra’am HaCohen presented the halachic query to Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l. Rav Ra’am explained that there was no doubt that the unifroms […] [Read More »]( [US Home Construction Falls A Surprise 9.5% In April]( WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home construction fell a surprisingly sharp 9.5% in April and economists attributed that partially to builders who delayed projects because of a surge in lumber prices and other supply constraints. The April decline left construction at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.57 million units, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. That […] [Read More »]( [Biden Back Behind The Wheel, Zooming Away In Electric Truck]( DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Joe Biden is back behind the wheel. And now he’s gone, bolting down the track. The self-described “car guy” took a spin in the new Ford F-150 Lightning truck during a visit to a Ford safety testing center Tuesday as part of a trip to Michigan to sell his $2 trillion […] [Read More »]( [A Heartfelt Cry from a Resident of the City of Lod, Israel]( LOD — (VINnews) The following piece has been submitted to VINnews. The author Sara Lippman details the current situation in Lod, Israel. — My dear friends, every day I receive dozens of calls and messages from you, just to ask how things are in Lod. So I decided to answer everyone at once. I want […] [Read More »]( [In Talks With Netanyahu, Biden Urges Ceasefire, Reiterates Support For Israel’s Right To Self-defense]( JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday updated U.S. President Joe Biden on the progress of Israel’s ongoing military operation against terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, which the military says have launched more than 3,000 rockets into Israel over the past week. The two leaders discussed U.S. engagement with Egypt and […] [Read More »]( [Victim Of Lod Lynch Mob Dies Of Wounds]( JERUSALEM (JNS) – Fifty-six-year-old Lod resident Yigal Yehoshua died on Monday, less than a week after being critically wounded by a mob of Arab rioters in the central Israeli city. Yehoshua was struck in the head by a brick while in his car, as rioters hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at police and passersby in the […] [Read More »]( [Share]( [Share]( [Tweet]( [Tweet]( [Forward]( [Forward]( Copyright © 2021 Vos Is Neias, All rights reserved. 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