Month April 2019
The Israel Air Force is currently taking part in the “largest overseas Israeli Air Force exercises” the IAF tweeted. Watch our fighter jets fly over the snowy peaks and wide fields of Greece as part of one of the largest… Continue Reading →
The measles outbreak in Israel has taken an alarming turn for the worse as two people—a 43-year-old El Al flight attendant and a 10-year old boy—were reported hospitalized and in… Read more » The post El Al Flight Attendant with… Continue Reading →
News from the frontlines of eastern Ukraine’s five-year-old frozen war has long slipped from Western headlines, but for the people living in the region, daily reminders of the conflict’s existence abound. Read more on Yeshiva World News
As Venezuela’s reliance on Russia grows amid the country’s unfolding crisis, Vladimir Putin’s point man in Caracas is pushing back on the U.S. revival of a doctrine used for generations… Read more » The post Putin Envoy in Caracas Rejects… Continue Reading →
New York – The Health Department today announced it is issuing three civil summonses, subject to fines, to people who failed to comply with the Commissioner’s Emergency Order mandating measles vaccination. To stop the spread of measles in New York… Continue Reading →
Media reports about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s leading candidates for justice minister have provoked a threatening reaction from senior ministry officials, according to Channel 10 on Thursday evening. The… Read more » The post Angry Pushback on Candidates for… Continue Reading →
Warsaw, Poland – Two professional soccer teams — one in England and one in the United States — will send a joint delegation to the March of the Living. The Chelsea Football Club and New England Revolution announced Wednesday in… Continue Reading →
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New York – Architecture and built heritage can be powerful symbols. Notre-Dame de Paris is one of the most famous and familiar buildings in the world, visited by an astonishing 30,000 people a day, or 13 million people a year…. Continue Reading →
Sanitation Pickup Schedule: There will be a district-wide recycling pickup Bedikas Chometz night, April 18th. The pickup will start at 12 am and continue through the night. There will be district-wide regular pickup on Erev Pesach, April 19th, starting from… Continue Reading →
A man was tragically killed when equipment fell on top of him today and pinning him, police say. A patient needed to be extricated today after getting stuck in a machine at a plant at the Lakewood/Jackson border. He reportedly… Continue Reading →
The Health Department today announced it is issuing three civil summonses, subject to fines, to people who failed to comply with the Commissioner’s Emergency Order mandating measles vaccination. To stop the spread of measles in New York City, the Health… Continue Reading →
Washington – Robert Mueller’s 448-page investigative report into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election includes 23 unredacted pages of Mueller’s written questions and Donald Trump’s written responses, the only direct exchange between the special counsel’s office and… Continue Reading →
If anyone cares, the following is the statement by Naftali Moster, the individual who worked b’emisiras nefesh to destroy our Mosdos Hatorah. Today, an Albany Supreme Court judge ruled in favor of yeshivas, catholic and elite private schools, striking down… Continue Reading →
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he plans to introduce legislation to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21 nationally. The Senate leader said Thursday… Read more » The post McConnell Proposes National Minimum Age… Continue Reading →
Following the release of Leket Israel’s fourth Report on Food Waste and Rescue in Israel, with a focus on food loss in the household consumption sector, it has recently been discovered that Pesach time is one of the most wasteful… Continue Reading →
New York – Amazon and Walmart on Thursday are kicking off a two-year pilot established by the government to allow low-income shoppers on government food assistance in New York to shop and pay for their groceries online. ShopRite will join… Continue Reading →
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) Is it respecting and loving a spouse or the other way around – loving and respecting? Believe it or not this may be a contradiction between a BRaisah cited in the Talmud and the… Continue Reading →
Pyongyang – North Korea said on Thursday it no longer wanted to deal with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and said he should be replaced in talks by someone more mature, hours after it announced its first weapons test… Continue Reading →
With Pesach approaching at the end of this week, please see below for information about additional trash and recycling collections. ALL of Community Board 14 and 15 will have recycling collection on Friday morning, April 19 between midnight and 11am…. Continue Reading →