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[In Trump Probe, NYC Grand Jury Hearing From Final Witnesses]( NEW YORK (AP) — A grand jury was hearing from final witnesses Monday in the investigation into Donald Trump as law enforcement officials accelerated security preparations in advance of a possible indictment and as fellow Republicans staked out positions in a criminal probe expected to shake up the 2024 presidential race. Robert Costello, a lawyer […] [Read More »]( [6 Missing After Montreal Building Fire That Included AirBnB]( MONTREAL (AP) — Montreal’s mayor vowed Monday to tighten regulation of Airbnb as a search continued for six people missing after a fire swept through a building that included Airbnb units in a historic city section where they are banned. Firefighters initially thought there was one person missing in the blaze Thursday in the eastern […] [Read More »]( [YESHIVA POLITICS: Should Yeshiva guys use Artscroll Gemaras? Ban cell phones in shul?]( NEW YORK (VIN Podcast) — Artscroll Gemaras are an extremely valuable tool, which help thousands of people learn. The question is, can they sometimes be used as a crutch? Should Yeshiva and Kollel guys ever use an Artscroll Gemara? ALSO: Cell phones in shul can be a huge distraction, yet some people cannot resist the […] [Read More »]( [Miami Beach Struggles With Spring Break Violence, Big Crowds]( MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — For the third year in a row, Miami Beach finds itself struggling with spring break violence, including two fatal shootings and unruly crowds, despite a massive police presence and activities designed to give people alternatives to drinking alcohol and roaming the streets. The party-all-the-time vibe in the South Beach section […] [Read More »]( [PASSPORT CRISIS: Big Win as Emergency Appointments Restored at US Embassy]( ISRAEL (VINnews) — Last week the US Embassy rolled out troubling new rules, ending the issuance of emergency passports for babies born to US citizens residing in Israel. These rules greatly limited the ability of American families residing in Israel to travel to the USA for Pesach. This difficulty came in addition to the fact […] [Read More »]( [‘New York Times’ Article Claiming Ancient Judaism Recognized ‘A Range Of Genders’ Draws Criticism]( NEW YORK (JNS) – “Ancient Judaism Recognized a Range of Genders. It’s Time We Did, Too.” So reads the headline of a March 18 New York Times guest essay by Elliot Kukla, whose website states that he provides “radical spiritual care” and was “the first openly transgender rabbi to be ordained by a mainstream denomination,” […] [Read More »]( [FOOTAGE: Two Killed When Driver Runs A Red Light In Brooklyn]( BROOKLYN (VINnews) – Two people died and several other were hurt when a car ran a red light and hit another vehicle in Brooklyn Monday, police said. Fire officials responding to the scene at 18th Avenue and 64th Street in Bensonhurst found people in need of extrication from the mangled vehicle. The two most badly […] [Read More »]( [Tel Aviv Terror Victim Or Eshkar Succumbs To Wounds]( JERUSALEM (JNS) – Or Eshkar, 32, died on Monday from a bullet wound sustained during a terror attack in Tel Aviv on March 9. Eshkar was wounded when 23-year-old Palestinian Mutaz al-Khawaja, a Hamas member from Ni’lin beyond the Green Line, opened fire outside a cafe on the corner of Dizengoff and Ben-Gurion streets in the city […] [Read More »]( [Officials: Teen Driver In Hutchinson Parkway Crash That Killed 5 Children Had No License]( NEW YORK (AP) – The 16-year-old driver in a crash that killed five young people did not have a driver’s license or permit and may have fallen asleep or become distracted before the SUV veered off a New York highway, officials said Monday. The car continued straight at a curve on the highway and struck […] [Read More »]( [Amazon To Lay Off 9,000 Employees On Top Of 18,000 In Jan.]( NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday. The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company’s history, adding to the 18,000 employees the company said it would lay off in […] [Read More »]( [Is ChatGPT Plus Worth $20/month?]( NEW YORK (AP) – Not even its own predictive text could have prophesied the rise of Artificial Intelligence in the form of ChatGPT. Bouncing from controversy to controversy, the OpenAI platform went viral with more than 100 million users in its first few months of public trials. When OpenAI released ChatGPT for public trial in […] [Read More »]( [TIME Names Jerusalem One Of World’s Greatest Places]( ISRAEL (JNS) – Jerusalem was named one of TIME magazine’s 50 most extraordinary travel destinations, as part of the publication’s third annual list of the World’s Greatest Places. TIME solicited nominations for the list—including countries, regions, cities and towns—from its international network of correspondents and contributors. “The locations must be enthralling, exciting, and offer new […] [Read More »]( [Mrs. Mania Jaroslawicz ע”ה מלכה בת ‏יהושע]( Family getting up: Shacharis: 7:30 amMincha: 7:00 pmMaariv: 7:15 pm R’ Isaac JaroslawiczSon Sitting at the home of the nifteres: 16740 NE 9Ave, Apt 210 North Miami Beach, FL R’ Menachem JaroslawiczSon From Friday, at the home of the nifteres: 16740 NE 9Ave, Apt 210 North Miami Beach, FL R’ Chaim JaroslawiczSon Sitting in Giv’at […] [Read More »]( [A Florida Bill Banning ‘Ethnic Intimidation’ Flyers Aims To Stop The State’s Neo-nazi Rise]( FLORIDA (JTA) – Responding to a recent rise in neo-Nazi activity in his state, a Jewish lawmaker in Florida is trying to outlaw displays of “religious or ethnic animus” on private property in his state. H.B. 269 takes aim at a variety of activities that neo-Nazi groups in the state have undertaken, from distributing flyers […] [Read More »]( [WATCH: FL Gov. On Possible Trump Indictment: Manufactured Circus By Some Soros DA]( FLORIDA (VINnews) – On Monday Gov. DeSantis responds to a question about Trump possibly being indicted. “Alvin Bragg is a Soros-backed DA who is going after Trump for political reasons”. “We won’t be involved in this. I have no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus by some Soros DA…He’s trying to […] [Read More »]( [Putin Welcomes China’s Xi To Kremlin Amid Ukraine War]( MOSCOW (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the Kremlin on Monday, in a visit that sent a powerful message to Western leaders allied with Ukraine that their efforts to isolate Moscow have fallen short. As he greeted Xi, Putin also said he welcomed his plan for “settlement of the […] [Read More »]( [Israel Ranked Fourth Happiest Country In World]( JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israel is the fourth happiest country in the world, according to a report produced by the U.N.-affiliated Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Based on Gallup World Poll data, the study leverages six key factors to help explain variation in self-reported levels of happiness across the world: social support, income, health, freedom, generosity and […] [Read More »]( [March In Thessaloniki Commemorates Deportation Of Greek Jewry]( GREECE (JNS) – Hundreds of people marched through the port city of Thessaloniki on Sunday, marking 80 years since the deportation of Greek Jews during the Holocaust. The commemoration comes at a time of burgeoning relations between Israel and Greece, and amid increasing awareness of what happened to the latter country’s once vibrant Jewish population […] [Read More »]( [Trump Silent On Abortion As 2024 Campaign Pushes Forward]( DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — No elected Republican has done more to restrict abortion rights in the U.S. than Donald Trump. But in the early days of the 2024 presidential contest, no Republican has worked harder to avoid the issue than the former president. Far more than his GOP rivals, Trump is sidestepping the issue just […] [Read More »]( [Trump’s Call For Protests Gets Muted Reaction By Supporters]( WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s calls for protests ahead of his anticipated indictment in New York have generated mostly muted reactions from supporters, with even some of his most ardent loyalists dismissing the idea as a waste of time or a law enforcement trap. The ambivalence raises questions about whether Trump, though a […] [Read More »]( [Mr. Fred Miller ז”ל Ephraim]( Family getting up: Shacharis: 7:30 amMincha: 6:45 pmMaariv: 7:20 pm Mrs. Suri MillerWife Rabbi Avrohom MillerSon R’ Yaakov MillerSon R’ Shaul Dov MillerSon Mrs. Baila WeisDaughter [Read More »]( [Finance Minister Smotrich: There Is No Such Thing As A Palestinian People]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said late Sundayin Paris that “there is no such thing as the Palestinian people, and it was a concept invented less than 100 years ago.” Speaking at a memorial event for Jacques Kupfer – a Likud activist in Paris who died of cancer two years ago, Smotrich claimed […] [Read More »]( [Yeshiva Students Hand Out Notes Of Love And Snacks At Tel Aviv Protest: ‘We’re All Brothers, I Love You’]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A number of yeshiva students studying at the Heichal Eliahu yeshiva in the village of Kochav Yaakov decided to go to the demonstrations taking place in Tel Aviv and make a gesture of unity and love towards the protesters. The students prepared special notes on which they wrote “Dear brother/sister, I have […] [Read More »]( [David Stern, Injured In Huwara Terror Attack, Recovering After Wounding Terrorist, Staunching His Own Bleeding]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 41-year-old David Stern, who was injured in Sunday’s terrorist attack in Huwara, is a former US marine who is both a shooting instructor and a martial arts coach at Machon Shilo. Stern providing instruction at firing range David Stern with his family During the course of the attack, the terrorist fired at […] [Read More »]( [NY Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein: Illegal And Discriminatory For Car Washes To Overcharge Before Pesach]( NEW YORK (VINnews) — New York assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein released a video clip in which he warned car wash facilities from raising their prices specifically before Pesach in order to gain at the expense of Jewish customers who need to clean their cars for Pesach. “Last year, it was brought to my attention that some […] [Read More »]( [Israel’s Coalition Delays Majority Of Judicial Reforms Until After Independence Day, Modifies Some Reforms]( JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the huge public outcry over the proposed judicial reforms in the Israeli government’s constitutional system, the coalition agreed Sunday evening to modify some of the reforms and to delay many of them until after Israel’s 75th Independence Day, which falls soon after Pesach. The heads of the parties […] [Read More »]( [The Hearty Beef Soup and the Rat: Halachic Analysis]( By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com WARNING: THIS HALACHIC COLUMN IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART: It is called, “sogogi gukbap,” and after reading this article you will probably not want to adapt it for your Pesach Seder (aside fromthe fact that it is filled with Kitnios). It seems that a Manhattan couple claimed […] [Read More »]( [North Korea: Latest Missile Simulated Nuclear Counterattack]( SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday it simulated a nuclear attack on South Korea with a ballistic missile launch over the weekend that was its fifth missile demonstration this month to protest the largest joint military exercises in years between the U.S. and South Korea. The North’s leader Kim Jong Un instructed […] [Read More »]( [NEW TOURO STUDY: How a Negative Self-Image Can Increase Depression]( (Courtesy of Touro University) — A new study shows that people with depression are more likely to view their present selves in a more negative light than they view their past or future selves. This disconnect may be increasing their depression. The study, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, suggests that working on your […] [Read More »]( [READ: Netanyahu and Biden Release Two Vastly Different Versions of Phone Call]( (Yaakov M / VINnews) — On Sunday, President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a phone call, following a meeting in Egypt between Israeli and Palestinian officials in which they pledged to take steps to lower tensions. Both the Biden administration and Netanyahu’s office released official readouts of the conversation, however both versions […] [Read More »]( [5 Connecticut Children, Ages 8-17, Dead After New York Crash on Hutchinson River Parkway]( SCARSDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Five children from Connecticut, ranging in age from 8 to 17, were killed in a fiery early morning crash Sunday on a New York highway, police said. Police believe the vehicle was being driven by a 16-year-old boy when it veered off the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale, hit a tree […] [Read More »]( [New York Community Bank To Buy Failed Signature Bank]( NEW YORK (AP) — New York Community Bank has agreed to buy a significant chunk of the failed Signature Bank in a $2.7 billion deal, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said late Sunday. The 40 branches of Signature Bank will become Flagstar Bank, starting Monday. Flagstar is one of New York Community Bank’s subsidiaries. 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