Chayenu is committed to making Torah learning portable and accessible through weekly publications mailed directly to people’s houses. Each booklet contains easy to digest segments in a variety of Torah topics, including the weekly Parsha, Rambam, Sha’ar Habitachon, the Taryag Mitzvos, and inspirational stories. Representing an unprecedented collaboration between 16 different Jewish publishers, who all [...]

Orlando, FL – A Florida man has been convicted of leaving threatening voicemails for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. Court records show that a federal jury in Orlando found 57-year-old Robert Francis Pratersch guilty Tuesday of threatening a federal official and interstate transmission of a threat to injure. He faces up to 15 years in prison [...]

Washington – Sen. Mitt Romney returned from a Middle East tour saying that he saw no alternative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict other than the two-state solution. The Utah Republican, his party’s 2012 presidential nominee, has just assumed the chairmanship of the Middle East subcommittee in the Senate. Romney’s conclusion could put him at odds with [...]

New York – The New York Times is taking disciplinary measures against a production editor who okayed an anti-Semitic cartoon. “We are taking disciplinary steps with the production editor who selected the cartoon for publication,” publisher A.G. Sulzberger said in a note sent to staff, according to CNN reporters posting excerpts Wednesday on Twitter. “We [...]

Poway, CA – Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was wounded in the Saturday shooting at Chabad of Poway Synagogue in California, is on his way to Washington, D.C., after receiving an invitation to Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast at the White House. Oscar Stewart, the combat veteran who confronted the shooter and forced him to flee, told [...]

Paris – For most of his adult life, Sammy Ghozlan has worked with French authorities fighting crime. Ghozlan, 75, started as a police officer, ascending through the ranks to become a police commissioner in the Paris area. And since 2002 he has headed one of French Jewry’s most prominent watchdog groups. The National Bureau for [...]

Jerusalem – Israel came to a standstill on Wednesday night as it began to mark the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah, with an opening ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. A two-minute-long siren will sound throughout the country on Thursday at 10 am, during which the entire country will [...]

Tallahassee, FL – More Florida classroom teachers could carry guns in school under a bill passed Wednesday by state lawmakers, the latest response to last year’s mass shooting at a Parkland high school. The Republican-led House voted 65-47 on Wednesday to send the bill to GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign it. [...]

Washington – “For me, it is over.” With those few words, Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, set the tone for his party at an extraordinary hearing with Attorney General William Barr over special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference and possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump. [...]

Seattle – Amazon.com Inc dismissed the idea of running a fully automated warehouse in the near future, citing the superior cognitive ability of humans and the limitations of current technology. Scott Anderson, director of Amazon Robotics Fulfillment, said current technology is at least 10 years away from fully automating the processing of a single order [...]