Month July 2019
Washington – President Donald Trump says a deal has been struck with congressional leaders on the budget and debt ceiling, mostly eliminating the threat of a repeat government shutdown this fall. Trump tweets that the agreement is “a real compromise”… Continue Reading →
Millions of people who take aspirin to prevent a heart attack may need to rethink the pill-popping, Harvard researchers reported on Monday. A daily low-dose aspirin is recommended for people… Read more » The post Study: Millions Should Stop Taking… Continue Reading →
Denise Wall, a Fresno-area schoolteacher with more than $2,000 in medical bills, was outraged to hear she could get free care if she quit her job and enrolled her family… Read more » The post Rising Health Insurance Deductibles Fuel… Continue Reading →
Newark, NJ – Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, clarified that he would not meet with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a notorious anti-Semite. “I will not sit — I will not sit… Continue Reading →
As a follow-up to the help that Chaveirim of Rockland County offered to YAGILU last week, when one of their campers went missing while on a hiking trip, Chaveirim of Rockland County came to Camp Yagilu Wilderness for some wilderness… Continue Reading →
A Chinese railway manufacturer will be supplying “explosion-proof” light rail vehicles (LRV) for the Tel Aviv system, scheduled to start running by 2021, according to the U.K. news site Intelligent… Read more » The post Chinese Company Building Explosion-Proof Trains… Continue Reading →
Leaders of the Boro Park Jewish Community Council (BPJCCC), Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools (PEARLS), Agudath Israel, and United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg (UJO) addressed members of the frum media today and urged continued vigilance and advocacy… Continue Reading →
The rise in new suppliers of oil and gas has reduced the ability of Iran to influence global oil markets, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Monday. The price… Read more » The post Perry Expects More Companies Drilling… Continue Reading →
The Trump administration on Tuesday will significantly expand its power to quickly deport illegal immigrants who have illegally entered the United States within the past two years, using a fast-track… Read more » The post Trump Administration to Expand Its… Continue Reading →
The Jerusalem District Court has ruled that the PA (Palestinian Authority) is response for abducting, imprisoning and torturing of collaborators, informants providing information to Israeli security agencies. This was the ruling in a case involving eight PA residents acting as… Continue Reading →
New York – A man charged with killing a reputed New York mob boss was deluded by internet conspiracy theories and thought he was helping President Donald Trump defend Democracy, his attorney said in court papers filed Friday. Anthony Comello… Continue Reading →
The MTA reported that 2, 3, 4, and 5 train service between Manhattan and Brooklyn will be disrupted for tonight’s rush hour because of a malfunctioning switch at Franklin Ave… Read more » The post Suspension of Train Service for… Continue Reading →
Iran on Monday announced the arrest of 17 Iranians accused of spying on the country’s nuclear and military sites for the CIA and said some of them have been sentenced to death. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Britain called on Monday for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, days after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker in what London described as… Read more » The post U.K. Calls for European Naval… Continue Reading →
When Fox News host Tucker Carlson took the stage at the National Conservatism Conference last Monday in Washington, his tone was self-deprecating yet triumphant. Deputy national security adviser Michael Anton… Read more » The post ANALYSIS: Under Trump, a Very… Continue Reading →
Waving flags, chanting and banging pots and pans, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans filled a central expressway Monday to demand the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in what appeared to be the biggest protest on the island in nearly… Continue Reading →
Warsaw, Poland – A Jewish cemetery in southern Poland was vandalized a month after it was rededicated following 2 1/2 years of renovations. “Jews eat children. Jadowniki eat Jews,” was painted on the fence of the cemetery in Tarnow. Jadowniki… Continue Reading →
Jerusalem – Mahmoud Saud, a Saudi law student and blogger who is part of an unprecedented six-person media delegation from the Arab world, was cursed, spat at, jeered and told to “go to a synagogue” on Monday as he went… Continue Reading →
A Saudi member of a delegation of foreign journalists visiting Israel was subjected to verbal and physical abuse as he went to Har HaBayis on Monday. The man, described as… Read more » The post Saudi Visitor Spat On by… Continue Reading →
On Thursday evening, following the approval of a Shared Services Agreement with Lakewood Township was approved by the Board of Education, the Township Committee agreed to negotiate, but did not approve, the Shared Services Agreement with the BOE. The expectation… Continue Reading →
Bereaved families from Operation Protective Edge, the IDF counter-terrorism operation in Gaza during the summer of 2014, will on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, hold a solidarity event with the Goldin and Shaul families, together with the state memorial for those… Continue Reading →