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[USDA To Permanently Boost Food Stamp Benefits By 25 Percent]( WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has approved a significant and permanent increase in the levels of food stamp assistance available to needy families—the largest single increase in the program’s history. Starting in October, average benefits for food stamps (officially known as the SNAP program) will rise more than 25 percent above pre-pandemic levels. The […] [Read More »]( [Mrs. Leah G Wolk ע”ה]( Family getting up: Friday (8/20/21)PM Mrs. Rochi HillSister Until Wednesday Rebbetzin Bashi NotisSister Rabbi Heshie Schenker Brother Until Tuesday pm Mrs. Miriam ApfelDaughter Mrs. Ellisheva Landman Daughter Mrs. Sori Yudkowsky Daughter [Read More »]( [Mr. Mendel (Max) Berg ז”ל ×ž× ×—× ×ž×¢× ×“×œ בן ××œ×›×¡× ×“×¨]( Family getting up: Shacharis: 7:30 amMincha: 7:35 pmMaariv: 7:45 pm Mrs. Yutzi (Judith) BergWife Mrs. Eleanor HirschDaughter Mrs. Pearl Chesir (Hollander)Daughter [Read More »]( [Identifying the Shanghai Bais Yaakov Teachers and Students]( by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Boruch Hashem, there are now Beis Yaakov’s across the country and across the world. It was a movement that was started, of course, by Sara Schenirer a”h. But the Shanghai Bais Yaakov was one of the first that existed outside of a a world that was no more. Featured […] [Read More »]( [US Mulls Covid Vaccine Boosters For Elderly As Early As Fall]( WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning of tough days ahead with surging COVID-19 infections, the director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday the U.S. could decide in the next couple weeks whether to offer coronavirus booster shots to Americans this fall. Among the first to receive them could be health care workers, nursing home residents […] [Read More »]( [Mrs. Etu Lederer ע”ה יוטא]( Family getting up: Shacharis: 7:45 amMincha: 7:40 pmMaariv: 8:35 pm Mrs. Malkie GluckDaughter Mr. Dovid LedererSon Mrs. Leah WeinbergDaughter [Read More »]( [An Afghan Woman In Kabul’s Dashed Hopes Amid Taliban Blitz]( DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hunkering indoors and watching her country fall to the Taliban, one young woman in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul described on Sunday the anxiety, fears and dashed hopes her generation feels as embassies evacuate staff and the government all but crumbles. But the day wasn’t supposed to be like this. […] [Read More »]( [Death Toll From Haiti Earthquake Rises To More Than 700]( LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — The death toll from a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti climbed sharply on Sunday, with at least 724 dead and a minimum of 2,800 injured. The updated figures from Haiti’s Office of Civil Protection follow a previous count of 304 dead. The office’s director, Jerry Chandler, said rescuers are […] [Read More »]( [Schumer Calls For Federal Crackdown On Fake Vaccine Cards]( NEW YORK (AP) — The Senate’s top Democrat says federal law enforcement officials need to crack down on fake COVID-19 vaccination cards being sold online. Sen. Chuck Schumer’s announcement Sunday comes after The Associated Press reported how people are cheating the system and buying counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards online, worrying officials at colleges and universities […] [Read More »]( [Israeli Education Minister’s Arab Affairs Adviser Shot Dead In Car]( JERUSAELM (JNS) – Israeli Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton’s Arab affairs adviser was gunned down in his car on Sunday outside his home in the Galilee village of Rameh. Sahar Ismail, 50, a member of the Druze community, also served as an adviser to New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar, currently Israel’s justice minister. Ismail had formerly […] [Read More »]( [Official: Taliban To Declare Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan]( KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban official says the group will soon declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace in the capital, Kabul. That was the name of the country under the Taliban government ousted by U.S.-led forces after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because […] [Read More »]( [Secretive Israel-UAE Oil Deal Endangers Prized Eilat Corals]( EILAT, Israel (AP) — The Red Sea reefs off the Israeli resort of Eilat host some of the greatest coral diversity on the planet. A symphony in splendid technicolor, the reefs are among the world’s most resilient coral colonies against warming seas. They have also become an unlikely battleground, caught between Israeli diplomatic and business […] [Read More »]( [2020 US Census Shows Significant Increases In Major Jewish Communities in Northeast Of US]( NEW YORK (VINnews) — Data from the 2020 Census Bureau which have just been released show B’H a significant increase over the previous 2010 Census in the number of people in the major religious Jewish communities in the Northeast of the United States. The data included a sharp increase of 45% in the population of […] [Read More »]( [CDC Warns Of High Virus Risks In Northeastern US]( BOSTON — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday that every county in the states of Connecticut and Massachusetts are the site of high or substantial transmission of the coronavirus. The rise of transmission in the two states mirrors a nationwide and regional trend. Some health authorities are recommending that even vaccinated […] [Read More »]( [Jerusalem Covered In Smoke As Wildfire Rages Outside City]( JERUSALEM (AP) — A massive wildfire outside of Jerusalem on Sunday sent a thick cloud of smoke over the city as authorities struggled to contain the blaze. The cloud stretched over much of the city on Sunday afternoon, covering the skies overhead with a black and orange blanket of smoke. Israeli media said that hundreds […] [Read More »]( [Prominent Fact-Checker Snopes Apologizes For Plagiarism]( NEW YORK (AP) — The co-founder and CEO of the fact-checking site Snopes.com has acknowledged plagiarizing from dozens of articles done by mainstream news outlets over several years, calling the appropriations “serious lapses in judgment.” From 2015 to 2019 — and possibly even earlier — David Mikkelson included material lifted from the Los Angeles Times, […] [Read More »]( [Afghan President Flees The Country As Taliban Move On Kabul]( KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday, joining his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan. The Taliban, who for hours had been on the outskirts of Kabul, announced soon after they would move […] [Read More »]( [Hungary Bus Crash Kills Eight, Injures Dozens]( BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A bus traveling on a highway in Hungary crashed through a guardrail and tipped over early Sunday, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens, police said. The crash occurred on Hungary’s M7 highway near the town of Szabadbattyan, between the capital, Budapest, and Lake Balaton, at just before 5 a.m. […] [Read More »]( [Pfizer CEO Praises Netanyahu’s Level Of Proficiency About Vaccine: ‘He Just Knew Everything’]( NEW YORK (VINnews) — Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla spoke with The Financial Times about his company’s decision to choose Israel as the sample country for checking the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by his country. Bourla praised former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s conduct during the interview: “The thing that became clear very quickly was […] [Read More »]( [Shanghai Bais Yaakov: Does Anyone Know What Happened to Them?]( By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is called crowd-sourcing, and it is a very effective manner in getting recent history and information. The topic is the Beis Yaakov in Shanghai during the war years. The questions are- what was their post Shanghai history? What did they or do they remember about their Bais Yaakov? […] [Read More »]( [US Warns 9/11 Anniversary Could Inspire Extremist Attacks]( WASHINGTON (AP) — The upcoming 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks as well as approaching religious holidays could inspire extremist attacks, the Department of Homeland Security said in a terrorism alert issued Friday. DHS did not cite any specific threats in the National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin. But it noted that the U.S. is […] [Read More »]( [COVID-Stricken Oregon Deploys National Guard To Hospitals]( PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s governor said Friday she will send up to 1,500 National Guard troops to hospitals around the state to assist healthcare workers who are being pushed to the brink by a surge of COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant. Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, said the first group of 500 […] [Read More »]( [Earthquake in Haiti – The Message]( By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The news is reporting that there are 304 dead (if not more) in Haiti after it was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake over Shabbos. “The most important thing is to recover as many survivors as possible under the rubble,” Prime Minister Ariel Henry said. He added, “We have […] [Read More »]( [Virus Claims More Young Victims As Deaths Climb Yet Again]( MIAMI (AP) — A young mother had just celebrated her first wedding anniversary and was one of six members of a Jacksonville church to die over a 10-day span. Another Florida woman had just given birth to her first child, but was only able to hold the newborn girl for a few moments before dying. […] [Read More »]( [Jill Biden Wears Medical Boot After Foot Injury In Hawaii]( WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden is wearing a medical boot following a recent foot injury on a Hawaiian beach. The boot was on the first lady’s left foot Friday as she and President Joe Biden boarded a helicopter in Delaware to fly to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. She also held onto crutches. […] [Read More »]( [Tour Bus Crashes On NY Thruway Injures 57, Some Seriously]( NEW YORK (AP) — A tour bus bound for Niagara Falls ran off the New York State Thruway and rolled over in central New York, sending more than 50 people to hospitals, state police and a hospital said. The bus landed on its side in the grass around 12:40 p.m. along the highway’s westbound side […] [Read More »]( [Man Stabbed, Reporter Attacked At Protest At LA City Hall]( LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man was stabbed and a reporter was attacked Saturday at a protest against vaccine mandates on the south lawn of Los Angeles’ City Hall after a fight broke out between the protesters and counter-protesters, the Los Angeles Police Department and local media said. About 2 p.m., a group of people […] [Read More »]( [Israel Condemns Poland Restitution Law, Recalls Top Diplomat]( WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Israel on Saturday condemned Poland’s approval of a law that restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors or their descendants to reclaim property seized by the country’s former communist regime and announced it was recalling its top diplomat in protest. The move ignited a diplomatic crisis between Israel’s new government and the […] [Read More »]( [Taliban Capture Key Northern City, Approach Afghan Capital]( KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban on Saturday captured a large, heavily defended city in northern Afghanistan in a major setback for the government, and were approaching the capital of Kabul, less than three weeks before the U.S. hopes to complete its troop withdrawal. The fall of Mazar-e-Sharif, the country’s fourth largest city, which Afghan […] [Read More »]( [Share]( [Share]( [Tweet]( [Tweet]( [Forward]( [Forward]( Copyright © 2021 Vos Is Neias, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: Vos Is Neias 7939 West Ridgewood Rd.New York, NY 10028 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.