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[Monsey School Bus Driver Arrested, Multiple Felony Charges Filed]( MONSEY (VINnews) — A bus driver for a Chassidic school involved in a major accident in Monsey last month was arraigned in criminal court Tuesday. The driver allegedly drove recklessly, and is accused of allegedly endangering the lives of children and others. He was charged with four felonies, including second degree assault and reckless endangerment, […] [Read More »]( [We Need to Stop Calling People Nazis..]( By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It pretty much happens every year during yeshiva week (the time when many Yeshivos give off – a winter vacation of sorts). There is some incident with an airline flight attendant or representative. The airline rep – reacts, possibly in a discriminatory manner. And we decide to make an […] [Read More »]( [6 Reasons Why We Know R. Yoseph Mizrachi is Wrong in Saying Naftali Bennet is not Jewish]( By Rabbi Yair Hoffman On his Youtube channel a few months ago, R. Yoseph Mizrachi had accused Naftali Bennet of not being Jewish. Bennet sent him a letter saying that if he does not withdraw the false allegation and remove the offending Youtube video, he will instigate a lawsuit. R. Mizrachi needs to apologize and […] [Read More »]( [Habachur Mordechai Burech Katz ז”ל]( Family getting up: Friday (1/27/23)PM Rabbi Duvid Moshe KatzFather Mrs. Shavy KatzMother Mr. Shmuel Abba KatzBrother Mr. Avroham Eli KatzBrother Miss Rivky KatzSister Miss Chani KatzSister Miss Suri KatzSister Hayeled Yitzchok Tzvi KatzBrother [Read More »]( [R` Naftoli Borchardt ז”ל]( Family getting up: Tuesday (1/31/23)Morning Mrs. Faygie BorchardtWife R` Yitzchok BorchardtBrother R` Yanki BorchardtBrother Mr. Reuven BorchardtSon Mrs. Gity TillimDaughter Mrs. Shaindy GoldbergDaughter Ms. Miriam BorchardtDaughter Mrs. Sori MoskowitzDaughter [Read More »]( [Renowned Holocaust Survivor And Educator To Be Awarded One Of Poland’s Highest Honors]( NEW YORK (JNS) – Legendary Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg will be posthumously awarded one of Poland’s highest honors this Friday in New York. The Polish Consulate of New York will be presenting Mosberg’s family with the Great Cross of the Order of Merit on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The award is to be given on […] [Read More »]( [US Board Says Boeing Max Likely Hit A Bird Before 2019 Crash]( (AP) – U.S. accident investigators disagree with Ethiopian authorities over the cause of a sensor malfunction that preceded the March 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa. The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that it determined that the bad sensor reading was caused by impact with an object, […] [Read More »]( [Cops Took 5 Hours To Warn Dance Hall Shooter Was On The Run]( (AP) – Lost in the aftermath of the Monterey Park, California, ballroom dance hall shooting that left 11 people dead is an alarming fact: It took five hours for authorities to alert the public that the gunman was on the loose. Even after the 72-year-old shooter brought a submachine gun-style weapon into another nearby dance […] [Read More »]( [Suspect Sought After 3 Killed In Convenience Store Shooting]( SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities closed portions of several roads Tuesday as they searched for the suspect in a random shooting at a Yakima, Washington, convenience store that left at least three people dead. Yakima police Chief Matt Murray said the shooting was reported at a Circle K convenience store about 3:30 a.m., and responding officers […] [Read More »]( [Of Spiders and More.. Mah Rabbu]( By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com There are so many aspects of Hashem’s Divine Wisdom that they are uncountable. But here is a truly remarkable one: spiders. Darwin once made an observation when he was on a ship 60 miles from land. Previously the ship had no spiders, but one day it was covered with […] [Read More »]( [Crypto Firms Acted Like Banks, Then Collapsed Like Dominoes]( NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past few years, a number of companies have attempted to act as the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank, promising lucrative returns to customers who deposited their bitcoin or other digital assets. In a span of less than 12 months, nearly all of the biggest of those companies have failed […] [Read More »]( [Nurses Ratify Contracts After Strike At Two NYC Hospitals]( NEW YORK (AP) — Nurses who went on strike at two major New York City hospitals this month have ratified the contracts that were hammered out to end the walkout, their union said Tuesday. The New York State Nurses Association said 98% of nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center voted in favor […] [Read More »]( [Vacation Spot Restaurants and the Unsung Heroes]( By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com As of this writing, there are thousands of frum yidden in Miami, in Orlando, and in Boca Raton.  Many of them are eating out in fleishig restaurants. There are over thirty kosher restaurants in Panama where frum people are eating and there is even the Ember restaurant in Cancun. […] [Read More »]( [16 Objects From Germany Tell Story Of Holocaust In New Ways]( BERLIN (AP) — Lore Mayerfeld was 4 years old when she escaped from the Nazis in 1941. Together with her mother, the little Jewish girl ran away from her German hometown of Kassel with nothing but the clothes she wore and her beloved doll, Inge. Mayerfeld found a safe haven in the United States and […] [Read More »]( [Learning To Lie: AI Tools Adept At Creating Disinformation]( WASHINGTON (AP) — Artificial intelligence is writing fiction, making images inspired by Van Gogh and fighting wildfires. Now it’s competing in another endeavor once limited to humans — creating propaganda and disinformation. When researchers asked the online AI chatbot ChatGPT to compose a blog post, news story or essay making the case for a widely […] [Read More »]( [Mrs. Bessie Sturn ע”ה]( Family getting up: Sunday (1/29/23)Morning R` Jacob SturmSon Mrs. RAchel BeissDaughter Mrs. Debra LevitanDaughter [Read More »]( [AP Investigation: Extreme Israeli Group Takes Root In US With Fundraising Bid]( JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli group raising funds for Jewish extremists convicted in some of the country’s most notorious hate crimes is collecting tax-exempt donations from Americans, according to findings by The Associated Press and the Israeli investigative platform Shomrim. The records in the case suggest that Israel’s far right is gaining a new foothold […] [Read More »]( [Taiwan’s President Says War With China ‘Not An Option’]( TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen told Pope Francis in a letter that war with China is “not an option” and said constructive interaction with Beijing, which claims the island as part of its territory, depends on respecting self-ruled Taiwan’s democracy. Vatican City is the last European government to have diplomatic relations with […] [Read More »]( [Classified Documents Found At Former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana Residence]( NEW YORK (AP) — Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana Home last week, according to his attorney. “The additional records appear to be a small number of documents bearing classified markings that were inadvertently boxed and transported to the personal home of the former Vice President at the […] [Read More »]( [Twitter Faces Lawsuits Over Unpaid Rent For US HQ, UK Office]( LONDON (AP) — More landlords are taking Twitter to court over unpaid rent, this time at the social media company’s headquarters in San Francisco and its British offices — the latest sign that owner Elon Musk’s extreme cost-cutting strategy includes simply not paying the bills. Twitter is facing a lawsuit over allegations it failed to […] [Read More »]( [Paris Trains Canceled After ‘Scandalous’ Act Of Vandalism]( PARIS (AP) — Apparently deliberately set blazes to clusters of electrical cables caused cascading cancellations on the Paris train network Tuesday, all but shutting down services at one of the French capital’s busiest stations. Two fires damaged 48 cables, Transport Minister Clément Beaune said, describing it as “an act that is scandalous.” The national rail […] [Read More »]( [Amazon Launches A Subscription Prescription Drug Service]( (AP) – Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing health care business. The retail giant said Tuesday that it will launch RxPass, a subscription service for customers who have Prime memberships. Amazon said people will pay $5 a month to fill as many prescriptions as they need from a list of […] [Read More »]( [UTJ Submits Bill To Prevent Chametz In Hospitals On Pesach, Opposition Slams ‘Religious Coercion’]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In another indication of the new government’s intent to roll back policies of its predecessor, the UTJ party submitted a bill to ban Chometz from hospitals during Pesach. In 2020 the High Court declared such bans in hospitals to be illegal, and last year the court issued a similar ruling regarding army […] [Read More »]( [Orthodox Coalition Decries Lawsuit Claiming Abortion to be a Jewish Value]( BALTIMORE (VINnews) — The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2000 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, decried a lawsuit against the state of Missouri by a dozen rabbis and other faith leaders, calling the suit a “desecration of G-d’s name that is simply beyond words.” Last year, in the wake of the […] [Read More »]( [Gafni Seeks To Legislate Separate Bathing Hours At Springs Supervised By Israel Parks Authority]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s coastal strip has many separate beaches catering to the chareidi public, but the numerous springs at national parks have no such arrangements and many religious people cannot therefore bathe in these springs during the summer months. Finance Committee chairman Moshe Gafni seeks to legislate separate hours at some of the springs […] [Read More »]( [Two Nof Hagalil Chareidi Girls Invent Remote-Controlled Baby Carriage For Calming Infants While Relaxing]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Two 13-year-old chareidi girls from the Chabad school in Nof Hagalil [formerly Upper Nazareth] produced a surprisingly simple and ingenious invention during a “patent fair” being held by the school for inventive ideas. The two, Naomi Daniel and Oshrat Peretz, both have infant relatives- Naomi a brother and Oshrat a nephew. Noticing […] [Read More »]( [Jerusalem Court Rules Har Homa Swimming Pool Can Open On Shabbat Without Ticket Sales Or Music]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jerusalem District Court acceded to a petition by Deputy Mayor Yossi Havilio and some thousand residents of the Har Homa neighborhood in southern Jerusalem and ruled that the local swimming pool should be open on Shabbat, subject to a number of conditions. On Shabbat there will be no ticket sales with […] [Read More »]( [Ben Shapiro Defends Israeli PM: ‘Israeli Courts Are A Dictatorship, Netanyahu Trying To Democratize System’]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In his popular Daily Wire podcast, Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro defended the Netanyahu government’s plans to reform the Israeli judicial system, and slammed the negative media coverage of the proposed reforms. Shapiro termed the Israeli judiciary  a “dictatorship,” and argued in favor of the reforms proposed by Justice Minister Yariv Levin (Likud). […] [Read More »]( [WATCH: Suspect In Custody After Killing 7 In California Community]( HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — Seven people were killed in two related shootings Monday at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm in a coastal community south of San Francisco, and a suspect was in custody, officials said. San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine says four people were killed at the […] [Read More »]( [Share]( [Share]( [Tweet]( [Tweet]( [Forward]( [Forward]( Copyright © 2023 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](.