Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is urging employers who still enforce mask mandates on their employees to knock it off as COVID cases decline. “Any of these big companies that are running these hotels or resorts – liberate your employees from forced masking requirements. They’re all waiting for it,” DeSantis said at a news conference. “Too many businesses, particularly corporate chains, force their employees to wear masks all day,” DeSantis added on Twitter. “This is unfair to the employees, who should have the same choices as everyone else.

A large protest took place on Wednesday night at Jerusalem’s Bar Ilan intersection where Admorim and the head of the Eidah Chareidis, Hagaon HaRav Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, were joined by thousands of Charedim in protesting the construction of the Jerusalem light rail. Approximately 100 policemen were at the scene of the protest, prepared to arrest any protesters who sought to escalate the demonstration into a violent incident. The protest remained peaceful until the rabbanim left, at which point fights between some charedim and police officers broke out and protesters began lighting fires.

Alan, a longtime maintenance worker at Waterbury Yeshiva, spoke up during a mussar seder being led by the rosh yeshiva, R’ Doniel Kalish. Alan expressed his gratitude to the rosh yeshiva and described the philosophy driving Waterbury Yeshiva’s bochurim to ever greater heights: unconditional love. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
The post WATCH THIS: Waterbury Yeshiva’s Maintenance Worker Speaks During Mussar Seder appeared first on The Yeshiva World.

An article was published on Tuesday in an Iranian newspaper questioning the reason for the visit of the “Rav of Saudi Arabia,” Rav Herzog, to the Islamic Republic. Entitled: “Trip to Tehran of a Torah Teacher Or A Mossad Agent?” the journalist claimed that Rav Herzog’s frequent trips to Saudi Arabia and the fact that no measures were taken against him in Israel despite his trip to Iran, which is prohibited under “Zionist regime laws,” prove that his trip was for political-security reasons. The official Tasnim news agency also published an article on the matter and interviewed representatives of the Jewish community in Tehran. Dr.

A senior Bahraini foreign ministry official publicly said on Sunday that Israel’s Mossad is active in Bahrain. “There’s intelligence cooperation between Bahrain and Israel,” the undersecretary for the foreign ministry, Sheikh Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, said at the Munich Security Conference during a session with Defense Minister Benny Gantz called “Abraham Accords and Peace Options.” ” Mossad is in Bahrain and they’re present in the region,” Khalifah began. The skeptical moderator then interrupted the discussion and asked: “Are you making comments or are you being sarcastic? I just want to make sure that everyone understands.” “If you allow me to finish, please,” Khalifah asserted.

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden took punitive measures in response to Russia’s aggression in eastern Ukraine and warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to made further incursions into its neighbor. The shocking developments now capturing global attention is particularly jarring, considering that the current Commander-in-Chief, Joe Biden, claimed back in 2019 that Putin wouldn’t attempt anything like this. “Putin knows that when I am president of the United States his days of tyranny and trying to intimidate the United States and those in Eastern Europe are over!” he said in a campaign message. The only thing that is now “over” are the delusions of those who believed President Biden could stop Putin’s aggression towards US allies. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Israel on Monday said it successfully tested a new naval air defense system, intercepting a series of threats in what officials called a key layer of protection against Iran and its proxies in the region. The “C-Dome” system is a naval version of the Iron Dome, which has been used to shoot down rockets fired from the Gaza Strip for the past decade. The C-Dome is being installed on Israel’s latest-generation corvette warships, which protect Israel’s coastline and offshore natural gas assets in the Mediterranean. The tests simulated a number of incoming threats, including rockets, cruise missiles and drones, the Defense Ministry said.

The 18-year-old who was cleared of any wrongdoing in killing two violent protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year said that he is preparing to file lawsuits against news organizations and personalities for the “lies” they spread about him. Speaking to Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Kyle Rittenhouse said he and his team will be launching “The Media Accountability Project” that will “help fundraise and hold the media accountable for the lies they said and deal with them in court.” “I don’t want to see anybody else have to deal with what I went through,” Rittenhouse said. Rittenhouse said that one of the people he is looking at suing is ‘The View’ co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who was recently suspended over her comments on the Holocaust.

Residents in Colleyville, Texas, the town where a Reform shul was held hostage by an Islamist radical just weeks ago, were stunned to find hundreds of antisemitic flyers strewn across lawns Tuesday morning. The flyers, placed in Ziploc bags and held down with pebbles, were similar in nature to flyers found on lawns in numerous other towns across the United States in recent weeks. On Sunday morning, residents of Parker, Colorado found antisemitic flyers on their lawns being held down by bags of rice. “As a Jew in the United States or anywhere, I know antisemitism is always there. I assume it is further away than my front doorstep,” a woman who identified herself as Danielle told NBC9.

Neil Cavuto, an immunocompromised Fox News anchor, revealed that he had been hospitalized for weeks with COVID-19 and nearly died. Cavuto, who is vaccinated and boosted, said that he had a very serious case because of his “very compromised immune system” and that he developed pneumonia, landing him “in intensive care for quite a while.” “It was really touch and go,” Cavuto said. “Some of you who’ve wanted to put me out of my misery darn near got what you wished for! So sorry to disappoint you!” Cavuto had previously contracted the virus in October. But the anchor, a cancer survivor who has been public about his decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis, had a more mild case back then. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)