Month March 2019
New York state’s ban on personal ownership of stun guns is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday in the latest in a series of court decisions that have led to… Read more » The post New York State’s Stun-Gun Ban… Continue Reading →
New York – Rockland County legislators have adopted a new law that bans most single-use plastic bags at retail outlets, restaurants and grocery stores. In a bipartisan 14-3 vote, lawmakers backed a measure that was sponsored by County Legislators Laurie… Continue Reading →
Teams from the three U.S. airlines that own 737 MAX jets headed to Boeing Co’s factory in Renton, Washington, to review a software upgrade on Saturday, as U.S. regulators prepared… Read more » The post U.S. Airlines Visit Boeing as… Continue Reading →
A spring surge in gas prices has drivers digging deeper to pay at the pump around the nation. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the national average gas price Friday was $2.61 a… Read more » The post Spring Surge in Gas Prices… Continue Reading →
Rescue workers off Norway’s western coast rushed to evacuate 1,300 passengers and crew from a disabled cruise ship by helicopter on Saturday, winching them one by one to safety as… Read more » The post Helicopters Rescue Norway Cruise-Ship Passengers… Continue Reading →
Washington – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was glowing as he stepped up to a podium in the backyard of his Jerusalem home to welcome U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to a holiday dinner. Less than an hour earlier,… Continue Reading →
ashington – Attorney General William Barr scoured special counsel Robert Mueller’s confidential report on the Russia investigation with his advisers Saturday, deciding how much Congress and the American public will get to see about the two-year probe into President Donald… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump’s move to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights turns the tables on decades of U.S. diplomacy and international law and threatens to further inflame regional tensions. Read more on Yeshiva World News
The mainstream media seemed to suffer a collective shock Friday evening after the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller handed its final report of its Russia investigation to the Department of Justice. Read more on Yeshiva World News
A soaking wet sheep was found tied to a Brooklyn tree. That’s what New York City police discovered in Coney Island Creek Park on Thursday night. Authorities don’t know how the sheep ended up there, but they responded to a… Continue Reading →
Special counsel Robert Mueller has wrapped up his investigation, but whether the public will get answers to consequential questions about President Donald Trump and Russia remains to be seen. Attorney General William Barr is combing through Mueller’s report and will… Continue Reading →
The arrest of a New York man on charges of harassing a Jewish co-worker at a health food store is the latest in a rising number of anti-Semitic episodes reported in New York, Gov. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Boeing on Saturday confirmed the flight-control software fixes that it plans to make for its grounded 737 Max 8, the plane involved in two fatal accidents within five months. The company is tweaking the system designed to prevent an aerodynamic… Continue Reading →
An estimated $625 million jackpot is on the line in Saturday’s Powerball drawing. It would be the seventh-highest U.S. lottery jackpot ever. The estimated lump sum payout would be $380.6 million before taxes. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Helsinki – Rescue workers off Norway’s western coast rushed to evacuate 1,300 passengers and crew from a disabled cruise ship by helicopter on Saturday, winching them one-by-one to safety as heaving waves tossed the ship from side to side and… Continue Reading →
1. What is a Shidduch Tefilla Kinnus? It is a seder hatefillos composed by Rav Yaakov Edelstein ztl, with perakim of tehillim, special tefillos and yhi ratzon, and selichos with tekias shofar. They do this all over in E’Y, but… Continue Reading →
London – British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a full-blown cabinet plot to remove her and 11 cabinet ministers have said they want her to resign, The Sunday Times’s political editor said. “A full blown cabinet coup is under… Continue Reading →
Rafi Eitan, a legendary Israeli Mossad spy who led the capture of Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, died Saturday. He was 92. Eitan was one of the founders of Israel’s vaunted intelligence community and among its most prominent figures in Israel… Continue Reading →
Rafi Eitan, a legendary Mossad spy who led the capture of Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, passed away on Shabbos. He was 92. Eitan was one of the founders of Israel’s… Read more » The post Legendary Mossad Agent Rafi Eitan… Continue Reading →
Attorney General William Barr scoured special counsel Robert Mueller’s confidential report on the Russia investigation with his advisers Saturday, deciding how much Congress and the American public will get to see about the two-year probe into President Donald Trump and… Continue Reading →