Çhief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday criticized as “inappropriate” and “dangerous” comments that Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer made outside the Supreme Court earlier in the day about Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Roberts was responding to Schumer’s remarks at a rally outside the court while a high-profile abortion case was being argued inside. “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,” Schumer said, naming the two appointees of President Donald Trump, according to video of the rally available online. In a statement, Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman criticized Roberts, saying that “to follow the right wing’s deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen.

Airline giant Lufthansa said Thursday it was cancelling all flights to Israel until March 28, after the Jewish state barred entry to almost all non-resident arrivals from five European nations including Germany. Flights to Tel Aviv and Eilat by Lufthansa and subsidiaries Swiss and Austrian Airlines will be cancelled from Sunday, March 8 until the end of the winter timetable on March 28, the group said in a statement, while some flights will be halted on Friday and Saturday “for operational reasons”. STAY UPDATED WITH BREAKING UPDATES FROM YWN VIA WHATSAPP – SIGN UP NOW Just click on this link, and you will be placed into a group. (AP)

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com The Corona Virus is a very serious issue, and it is something that should not joked about. There are people whose very lives are in the balance.  Creating and forwarding false information that causes people to worry, whether knowingly or unwittingly, is a Torah prohibition of “Lo Sonu ish es amito.” There are three types of people who receive social media information: (a) Those who forward them without checking them out; (b) those who don’t forward them at all, and (c) those who forward information from social media only after ensuring that they are true. Most people know someone who fits into the first category. The problem is that a good percentage of the time, the item that is being forwarded is patently false.

Two new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday morning. One new patient is a man in his 40s, and the other is a woman in her 80s. Neither patient has a connection to travel nor any of the other local individuals diagnosed with COVID-19, the mayor said. This brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city to four and and 13 overall in New York state. STAY UPDATED WITH BREAKING UPDATES FROM YWN VIA WHATSAPP – SIGN UP NOW Just click on this link, and you will be placed into a group. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Purim is one of the holiest days of the year, and customs vary from region to region, and family to family. The mitzvos, however, remain a constant. It is fascinating to take a glimpse into how the gedolei yisroel choose to spend their Purims, particularly with regard to the mitzvah of matanos l’evyonim: “My custom, for the past few years now, is to give Matanos Le’evyonim to Kupat Ha’ir immediately after Krias Hamegillah.

Jeff Sessions, making new strides to regain his former Senate seat, faced renewed criticism from Donald Trump that could be his biggest hurdle after the president appeared to mock his former attorney general for being forced into a primary runoff. Trump broke his silence on Sessions’ race in Alabama, again lashing out at his former ally over his 2017 recusal from the Russia investigation. The newest Twitter scolding by Trump could further damage Sessions’ hopes of mounting a political resurrection in the state where he had long been a conservative icon. Sessions fell short of winning the GOP nomination outright Tuesday and will face former college football coach Tommy Tuberville in a Republican runoff. The winner of the March 31 runoff will face incumbent Democratic Sen.

Chumash Pardes with Peshat, Remez, Derush and Sod. Yeshivat HaChen together with some prominent Rabbis from Sharei Shamaim and Targum Publishers had produced a new set of Chumash Mikros Gdolos style that include 18 Meforshim from Kabbalistic/ Chassidic commentaries. ( Ari”ZL, Zohar, Besht, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Chabad – Sichos, R.NAchman of Breslov, Baal HaTania, Ben Ish Chay, and Vilna Goan and many more ) on top of traditional meforshim in Mikros Gdolos totaling a total of 25 perushim on each parsha. This set brings to light the unity of the Torah between hidden and revealed parts of the Torah in a 7 book set. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE

His front-runner status slipping, Bernie Sanders refocused his Democratic presidential campaign on surging rival Joe Biden on Wednesday as the Vermont senator’s allies grappled with the fallout from a Super Tuesday stumble that raised internal concerns about the direction of his White House bid. Sanders targeted Biden’s record on trade, Social Security and fundraising just hours after billionaire Mike Bloomberg suspended his campaign and Elizabeth Warren confirmed she was privately reassessing her future in the race. The dramatic shifts signaled that the Democrats’ once-crowded nomination fight had effectively come down to a two-man race for the right to face President Donald Trump in November.

A 12-year-old Charedi boy is alive due to a miracle after he fell from heights in Wadi Og national park on Wednesday. The boy only suffered light injuries after a fall that should have killed him. The boy, a resident of Beitar Illit, was hiking the trail through the wadi with his family when he slipped and fell off the side of a cliff face. Volunteers from the Megillot-Dead Sea Search and Rescue Unit were dispatched to the scene after family members reported what had happened. The volunteers found the injured boy in the lower segment of Wadi Og and transported him out of the Wadi on a stretcher. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

The Israeli Health Ministry issued a series of new regulations in an effort to staunch the spread of the Coronavirus in Israel. One of the regulations included that anyone who was returning from five countries in Europe to Israel (France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Spain) would have to enter into home quarantine upon returning to Israel. A flight attendant announced this on a flight that was about to take off in Berlin and head for Tel Aviv shortly after the new rules were announced to the public. As a result, approximately 10 passengers got up and left the plane in order to stay in Berlin and avoid undergoing house quarantine in Israel. Khan journalist Antonia Yamin was on the flight and recorded the message of the flight attendant.