Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is plunging $500 million into an effort to close all of the nation’s remaining coal plants by 2030 and put the United States on track toward a 100% clean energy economy. Read more on Yeshiva World News
An Israeli investigative TV show reported on Thursday that one of the country’s richest men hired Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube to dig up dirt on a Cabinet minister. Black Cube denied the allegations. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Police who surrounded a house in eastern Texas because they thought they had a burglary in progress found a deer instead.
The homeowner called Lufkin police early Thursday after she heard glass breaking. Read more on Yeshiva World News
The online delivery wars are heating up inside shoppers’ homes.
Walmart is now offering to have one of its employees deliver fresh groceries and put them in your refrigerator when you’re not home. Read more on Yeshiva World News
U.S. hiring slowed in May as employers added just 75,000 jobs, a sign that businesses have become more cautious in the face of slowing global growth and widening trade conflicts. Read more on Yeshiva World News
A V-shaped airliner that seats passengers in the wings instead of a central fuselage could make long-distance air travel more sustainable — and it’s more than pie in the sky. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Due to an overnight power outage, everything melted at the Williamsburg “Ice Cream House”.
The loss is estimated in the tens of thousands of dollars. Hundreds of ice cream cakes designed for Shavuos are melted.
A number of cafeterias in schools in Rishon L’Tzion have shifted to the kashrus of Tzohar Rabbid. However, according to a Ministry of Education regulations, the food supplier must present a kashrus certificate from an authorized agency under the “Prohibition of Deception in Kashrut Law, 5743-1983”.
As is done every year, HaRav Ephraim Wachsman joins HaRav Dovid Spiegel and the Bais Medrash of Cedarhurst, with an incredibly uplifting song preparing the Kehilla for Kabolas Hatorah.
The entire crowd breaks out in singing and dancing following the inspiring words delivered by Rav Wachsman.
There is something unique and overwhelming about the Sephardic Bet Hakenesset. It’s not just the stately décor and handsome furniture.
It’s the respect for tefillah that reverberates from the walls, the tangible commitment to prayer, its chants, tunes, and laws, the total communal participation, its customs, and its atmosphere.
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