Month July 2019
Hamas on Friday called on Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to follow through on his declaration Thursday night that the PA would end all cooperation with Israel in the wake… Read more » The post Hamas Urges Abbas to Follow… Continue Reading →
A day after two North Korean missile launches rattled Asia, Pyongyang announced Friday that leader Kim Jong Un had supervised the test of a new tactical guided weapon that was… Read more » The post N. Korea: Missile Test Was… Continue Reading →
A poll carried out by the Midgam Institute shows that if elections were held today, both the Likud and Blue & White parties would only earn 29 seats. In previous polls a number of weeks ago, the parties earned several… Continue Reading →
New York – Patients are about to be enrolled in the first study to test a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR inside the body to try to cure an inherited form of blindness. People with the disease have normal eyes… Continue Reading →
Surveillance cameras at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport caught the journey of a curious toddler who climbed onto a baggage conveyor belt and took a trip through the baggage system. Read more on Yeshiva World News
(Here’s the fund set up to help his children.)
Lawyers for election integrity activists grilled Georgia election officials about cybersecurity measures taken to protect the state’s elections infrastructure, seeking Thursday to convince a judge to order an immediate halt to the state’s use of outdated voting machines. Read more… Continue Reading →
During the violent Peleg Yerushalmi protests that took place on Wednesday at Jerusalem’s Kikar Shabbos in protest over the arrest of a Breslov Chossid at Ben-Gurion Airport for being a draft dodger, eleven persons were arrested. Read more on Yeshiva… Continue Reading →
The Justice Department announced Thursday that it will resume executing death row prisoners for the first time in nearly two decades. At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled the executions of five… Continue Reading →
Mexico – Lety Perez fell to her haunches, a clenched hand covering her face as she wept, an arm clutching her small 6-year old son, who glared defiantly at the Mexican National Guard soldier blocking them from crossing into the… Continue Reading →
The Majority of Europe is dealing with a massive heatwave this week, as temperatures in France hit above 106 Fahrenheit, but one Chareidi man made a Kiddush Hashem. Read more on Yeshiva World News
A day after two North Korean missile launches rattled Asia, the nation said Friday it had tested a “new-type tactical guided weapon” that was meant as a “solemn warning” about South Korean weapons development and its plan to hold military… Continue Reading →
New York – There are few remnants of the once flourishing Jewish community of the town of Colmar, in France. Jews were blamed for the outbreak of the Black Death plague there in 1348-49, and many were burned to death…. Continue Reading →
The project to connect northern and southern Jerusalem is underway as work began on the new French Hill Junction. The project includes a level separation using a network of tunnels with a total length of 3.5km (2.1 miles). Read more… Continue Reading →
Police arrested three men in connection with separate incidents of videotaped dousings of New York City patrol officers with buckets of water, but all three have already been released. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Aventura, FL – A campaign on a Jewish crowdfunding website raised more than $2 million in five days to provide a “miracle drug” to help a 2-year-old Florida girl. Eliana Cohen, daughter of Ariel and Shani Cohen of Aventura, was… Continue Reading →
The U.S. government will execute federal death row inmates for the first time since 2003, the Justice Department announced Thursday, bringing back a seldom-used punishment pushed by President Donald Trump and escalating another divisive issue ahead of the 2020 presidential… Continue Reading →
Up to 150 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, were missing and feared drowned on Thursday after the boats they were traveling in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the country’s coast guard and the U.N. Read more on… Continue Reading →
Washington – “It’s over,” President Donald Trump declared after former special counsel Robert Mueller ended hours of testimony about his two-year investigation into Russian election interference. But don’t expect Trump or the Democrats looking to replace him in 2020 to… Continue Reading →
Four major automakers have reached a deal with California to increase gas mileage and greenhouse gas emissions standards, bypassing the Trump administration’s push to freeze requirements at 2021 levels. Ford, BMW, Honda and Volkswagen signed the deal with the California… Continue Reading →
Sangatte, France – Looking like a superhero, the French inventor of an airborne hoverboard glided partway over the English Channel on his personal flying machine Thursday – then crashed in the sea. Unharmed and undeterred, 40-year-old Franky Zapata said he… Continue Reading →