Month June 2019
Facing competition for the world’s top-selling drug, AbbVie will spend about $63 billion to buy Botox maker Allergan as it attempts to spur future growth. The specialty drugmaker said Tuesday… Read more » The post AbbVie Makes $63B Bid for… Continue Reading →
New York – Don’t envy NBC News executive Rashida Jones, who is behind this week’s inaugural Democratic presidential debate and will have to juggle 20 candidates, five news personalities and, it’s likely, one tweeting president. While the event is obviously… Continue Reading →
The Kiryas Joel Volunteer Ambulance Corps answered some 350 mutual aid advanced life support calls in 2018, the vast majority of them with the corps’ primary paramedic supervisor responding. As a result, Orange County named Avroham Flohr as ALS Paramedic… Continue Reading →
The two elderly men sitting in the waiting room of a doctor’s office began reminiscing about their wartime experiences. They both had spent time in the same concentration camp, which… Read more » The post A Matter of Response appeared… Continue Reading →
Two stories. One holds out hope for the Palestinians and for peace. The other promises continued despair and war. The first involves an Israeli chip designer, Mellanox Technologies, which employs… Read more » The post Dollars for Peace, Dollars for… Continue Reading →
The threats and vulgarities bellowed by several visibly Orthodox Jews at members of the New York State Assembly in Albany after it narrowly passed a measure ending religious exemptions for… Read more » The post Vaccination Proclamation appeared first on… Continue Reading →
During a visit by Agudas Yisrael members in the Upper Galilee in 1934, they called on the Rav of Teveria, Harav Yaakov Chai Zrihan, zt”l, the Sephardic Rav in Teveria… Read more » The post The Black Sheep of Teveria… Continue Reading →
New York – Sales of new U.S. homes slumped 7.8% in May, as sales plunged in the pricier Northeastern and Western markets. The Commerce Department says that new homes sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 626,000 in May,… Continue Reading →
A free, 8-million strong social network for knitters, crocheters and others in the fiber arts has banned any mention of support for President Donald Trump and his administration. The new policy on Ravelry.com was posted Sunday. Read more on Yeshiva… Continue Reading →
Jerusalem – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hosted in Jerusalem what he termed as “a historic and unprecedented” trilateral meeting in Jerusalem between the national security advisers of the US, Russia, and Israel. The three parties are focused on… Continue Reading →
(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Border police earlier this week arrested a suspect who is believed to have been involved in an attack in which an IED was hurled at the Jalame Crossing as he drove on a motorcycle, which was… Continue Reading →
Two powerful landlord groups are formulating a lawsuit that they hope will reverse rent rules signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week that place obstacles before owners seeking to raise… Read more » The post N.Y. Landlords Unite to Overturn… Continue Reading →
Finding The Solution. You’re looking for a new job. You need a better, more satisfying work experience. You don’t want to beg or secretly hope to be noticed for your input. You want to shine, hear praise, and enjoy working… Continue Reading →
Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund can invest again in miner Rio Tinto and retailer Walmart after their exclusion from the fund’s investments on ethical grounds was revoked, the board of… Read more » The post Norway Wealth Fund Allowed to… Continue Reading →
Jerusalem – Israel says it has cut off fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip in response to the launch of incendiary balloons, resulting in new power cuts in the impoverished territory. COGAT, the Israeli defense body responsible for Palestinian civilian… Continue Reading →
15-Year-Old Budding Shas Yiden? Recently, the Torah world was electrified by the news and video of the Shas Yiden public farher on the entire shas by Harav Nissan Kaplan and Harav Rephael Shmuelewitz at Yeshivas Daas Aharon. Read more… Continue Reading →
15-Year-Old Budding Shas Yiden? Recently, the Torah world was electrified by the news and video of the Shas Yiden public farher on the entire shas by Harav Nissan Kaplan and Harav Rephael Shmuelewitz at Yeshivas Daas Aharon. Maran Harav David… Continue Reading →
Egyptian authorities on Tuesday detained a leader of the 2011 uprising that unseated longtime president Hosni Mubarak, accusing him and others of a plot to bring down the government. Former… Read more » The post Egypt Detains Leader of 2011… Continue Reading →
A special prosecutor was requested Monday to investigate the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in a case that has inflamed tensions between the black… Read more » The post Special Prosecutor Requested in South… Continue Reading →
Havana – Some marble grave covers are broken and tombstones lie on the ground, covered in moss. At some plots, vegetation pokes through the cement cracks. But slowly, the oldest Jewish cemetery in Cuba is beginning to be rehabilitated, along… Continue Reading →