Month July 2019
Brooklyn, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today deployed resources and personnel to assist with power outages in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and directed the State Department of Public Service to expand its investigation into Con Edison power outages after the Governor… Continue Reading →
Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy of the United States, came with his wife for a visit to the Kosel and the Kosel Tunnels to begin his official and first visit to the State of Israel. Read more on Yeshiva World… Continue Reading →
Thousands of New York City residents are grappling with power outages as extreme heat continues to bake the metro area. Con Ed reports that roughly 50,000 customers were without power… Read more » The post Heat Wave Knocks out Power… Continue Reading →
About 1,800 firefighters were struggling to contain wildfires in central Portugal that have already injured 20 people, including eight firefighters, authorities said Sunday. The fires broke out Saturday across three fronts in the district of Castelo Branco, 200 kilometers (about… Continue Reading →
Clearwater Beach, FL – Authorities say a lightning strike at a Gulf Coast beach in Florida has left eight people hurt, one of them critically. Clearwater Deputy Fire Chief Marvin Pettingill told local media outlets that the lightning strike occurred… Continue Reading →
While on a pilgrimage to the town of Mezbiuz in Ukraine to visit the Kever of the Baal Shem Tov, a group of Charedim were shocked to see a group of Reform Jews, both men and women, being Michalel Shabbos…. Continue Reading →
Rishon L’Tzion HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef Shlita denies the Chief Rabbinate requests DNA from immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, as is alleged by the chairman of the Yisrael Beitenu party, MK Avigdor Lieberman, who petitioned the High Court of… Continue Reading →
Russian and Ukrainian Jews feel much safer in big cities, a new large poll finds. First results of the extended study “Jews of the Post-Soviet Space” were presented last week at the ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute 2019 for curriculum development in… Continue Reading →
New York – Hoping to use the three week period of mourning over the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash to effect positive change, a Brooklyn resident is challenging the Jewish community to refrain from sharing information about others, a seemingly… Continue Reading →
There’s a high-profile debate over health care playing out in the presidential race, and a lower-profile one taking place in Congress. Several Democratic presidential candidates are telling us that they… Read more » The post Surprise! Here’s Proof that Medicare… Continue Reading →
Last week saw the release of a Pew Research Center report about global restrictions on religion that yielded headlines like “Israel Has Almost as Many Religious Restrictions as Iran,” and… Read more » The post Restriction of Religion? appeared first… Continue Reading →
Labor Nominee Scalia Has Long Record of Opposing Regulations WASHINGTON (AP) – Eugene Scalia has a decades-long record of challenging Labor Department and other federal regulations. Trump selected Scalia Thursday… Read more » The post Business Briefs – July 21,… Continue Reading →
The United States said it’s concerned by reports of China’s interference with oil and gas activities in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, where Vietnam accuses Beijing of violating its sovereignty. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Friends, I’m sure you will agree: Over the past 30 years, Catskills Hatzalah has grown to be an integral part of our community’s infrastructure, one that we all rely on implicitly. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Con Edison is asking customers in certain neighborhoods in Southeast Brooklyn to conserve energy while company crews work to repair equipment problems. Con Edison has also reduced voltage by 8 percent in those areas as a precaution to protect equipment… Continue Reading →
Israel Prison Authority (IPA) officials report that during the weekend, they foiled efforts to smuggle eleven cellphones into Ofer Prison, referring to efforts to smuggle phones to imprisoned terrorists. Two prisoners, with one affiliated with the Popular Front for the… Continue Reading →
Jerusalem – Former Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has assumed the leadership of her right-wing nationalist party ahead of September’s unprecedented repeat elections. The New Right party had failed to garner enough votes in April to win seats in parliament,… Continue Reading →
Lufthansa resumed flying to Cairo Sunday following a one-day suspension due to safety concerns. The German airline’s website shows LH582 took off from Frankfurt after a two-hour delay and arrived… Read more » The post Lufthansa Resumes Cairo Flights, British… Continue Reading →
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Sunday evening that he will not resign in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat, but he will not seek re-election or continue as head of his pro-statehood political party…. Continue Reading →
As weeks of drama that put busing for thousands of Lakewood’s children in jeopardy wind down, a creative solution has been found that will maintain the arrangement that has stabilized… Read more » The post New Arrangement Will Keep Lakewood’s… Continue Reading →
STUART, Florida — Early Wednesday afternoon, Stuart Police received a report of a fist fight taking place inside of Five Guys Burgers and Fries. Five guys were involved in the fight, and those five guys found themselves under arrest. Read… Continue Reading →