Month July 2019
Facing growing accusations of racism for his tweets, President Donald Trump lashed out at his critics on Monday and sought to deflect the criticism by labeling a leading black congressman… Read more » The post Accused of Racism, Trump Blasts… Continue Reading →
Quebec – Canada is not changing the date of its national elections, even though they fall on a Jewish holiday. Chief electoral officer Stéphane Perrault announced Monday that he would not recommend changing the date, which coincides with the last… Continue Reading →
A shooter cut through a fence and opened fire on a crowd eating and listening to music at a popular food festival in California, killing three people, including a 6-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, and injuring 12 others before… Continue Reading →
New York – Electrical utility Con Edison says it’s figured out more details about why a relatively small problem escalated into a big blackout in Manhattan earlier this month. The utility had already explained that the July 13 outage happened… Continue Reading →
The High Court of Justice on Sunday ruled on a petition filed by Tiveria Mayor Ron Kobi, seeking to prevent the Interior Ministry from removing him from office for failing to pass a city budget in five attempts. Read more… Continue Reading →
New York – All those hours playing video games have paid off for a 16-year-old. Kyle Giersdorf, of Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, racked up the most points and won $3 million as the first Fortnite World Cup solo champion. The competition took… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump wants combat forces reduced in Afghanistan by the next U.S. presidential election, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday, introducing a timeline to Washington’s plan for… Read more » The post Pompeo: Trump Wants Forces Reduced… Continue Reading →
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has proposed a plan to grant building permits to Palestinians in Israeli-controlled Area C of Yehudah and Shomron, alongside similar approvals for Jewish communities, the… Read more » The post Plan for Granting Palestinian Building… Continue Reading →
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from a Moscow hospital on Monday and returned to prison under guard after being treated for what his lawyer and doctor have described… Read more » The post Kremlin Critic Navalny Returned to… Continue Reading →
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was rocked on Monday by disclosure of a scandal at the highest echelons. An internal report obtained by the AFP alleges that… Read more » The post UNRWA Under Scrutiny for Ethical… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump on Monday signed a bill ensuring that a victims’ compensation fund helping those impacted by the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks never runs out of money, ending years of legislative gridlock as the number of first responders dying… Continue Reading →
Washington – An Afghan soldier shot and killed two American service members in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Monday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak on the record about details that have not yet… Continue Reading →
(VIDEOS AND PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Israel Police is probing a multi-vehicle accident which occurred on Monday afternoon at Tishbi Junction in northern Israel. According to a police report, one person sustained serious injury, one moderate, and seven others sustained… Continue Reading →
New York – A shootout that left one man dead and 11 people wounded at a Brooklyn community festival over the weekend may have been gang related, the New York Police Department said Monday as the hunt continued for at… Continue Reading →
New York City’s Board of Elections has officially certified Queens Borough President Melinda Katz as the winner of the tightly contested Democratic primary for Queens district attorney. The board said… Read more » The post Contested NYC Prosecutor’s Race Certified,… Continue Reading →
Jerusalem district firefighters early Monday rescued dozens of tenants who were trapped in a building which appears to have been targeted by arsonists. The fire was in a five-story residential structure on Nurit Street in the Kiryat Menachem neighborhood of… Continue Reading →
Reader-submitted: To the one who yelled at me for coming too close to you too fast: As you can see on my dashcam, being that neither you nor your wife were wearing a reflector, you were virtually invisible. And as… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] A handwritten letter and accompanying statement were released from Rav Chaim Kanievsky earlier this week regarding an anonymous individual who is, in the words of the Rav, “suffering terribly.” Sources connected to Kupat Ha’Ir confirm that the individual has… Continue Reading →
New York police say a shootout that left one man dead and 11 people wounded at a Brooklyn community festival may have been gang-related. Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said… Read more » The post Block Party Shootout May Have… Continue Reading →
Two citizens of Syrian origin verbally attacked a Jewish man wearing a yarmulke in Potsdam, Germany, the capital of Brandenburg, local police reported. A 25-year-old student who told the German media he wears his yarmulke daily fell victim to an… Continue Reading →
MassMutual Brooklyn celebrated their move into sparkling new headquarters at the intersection of 11th Avenue and 60th Street in Brooklyn with a ribbon cutting reception and ceremony which attracted an array of influential elected officials and communal, business and civic… Continue Reading →