Month July 2019

Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday as investors looked cautiously ahead to a key policy update from the U.S. Federal Reserve later in the day. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 fell… Read more » The post Asian Shares Fall as Markets… Continue Reading →

Although talks are said to be continuing with the rightwing list created this week when United Right List and New Right joined together, Otzma Yehudit’s Itamar Ben-Gvir announced Wednesday that… Read more » The post Ben-Gvir to Lead Joint Run… Continue Reading →

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles early on Wednesday, the South Korean military said, only days after it launched two similar missiles intended to pressure South Korea and the… Read more » The post N. Korea Tests More Missiles… Continue Reading →

U.S. President Donald Trump intends to invite Arab leaders, along with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, to a summit at Camp David in early September. The summit will be held before… Read more » The post Report: Trump Organizing Pre-Election Mideast… Continue Reading →

Detroit, MI – The Latest on the second round of Democratic presidential primary debates in Detroit (all times local): 10:45 p.m. Democratic presidential candidates are closing out the latest debate in Detroit. Marianne Williamson, who won over the crowd with… Continue Reading →

The recent J-Trade business trade show in London was a resounding success. What comes after J-Trade? K-Trade, of course, and this one is expected to sweep the kosher world off its feet. K-Trade, a kosher food show in London, will… Continue Reading →

The world is divided into two types of people: Those who allow others into their homes when it’s a mess, and those who allow others inside only when the house is neat. The bottom line is that everyone is messy,… Continue Reading →

Mohammed Saud, the Saudi activist, stunned people when he showed up in Israel for a visit last week along with five other activists and journalists, including one from Iraq. I for one, was not stunned at all. Mohammed had told… Continue Reading →

Boris Johnson, the politician who has entertained and scandalized Britain for years with his many scrapes, jokes and politically incorrect gaffes, as well as been shamed and famed by a life full of achievements and failures, has been elected as… Continue Reading →

Meira was getting dressed for her visit to Rabbi Brody, where she would ask him to pray for her because her own prayers were not being answered. When she was 19, a student at Brooklyn College, G-d had answered her… Continue Reading →

There’s a well-known story about the Mezeritcher Maggid. When he was five years old, his family’s house burned down. Seeing his mother weeping uncontrollably near the smoldering ruins, little Dov Ber asked her if she was crying because of the… Continue Reading →

When I finally decided to buy a new wig seven years after I got married it was a big deal, at least according to my family members. Everyone had an opinion as to which brand to buy, which style suited… Continue Reading →

The “Suicide Ship” “In war, the first three reports are usually wrong.” That’s what the generals say. It does not mean the reports are fake news, just that there is usually something wrong with early intelligence reports. Sometimes rapidly unfolding… Continue Reading →

A lot of people throw around the phrase “It was every parent’s worst nightmare,” but this actually is. I can unequivocally say that leaving a baby in a car is every parent’s worst nightmare. Other than that, I have no… Continue Reading →

One of Facebook’s third-party fact-checking partners on Tuesday said the company needed to share more data with fact-checkers to better curb misinformation. UK-based charity Full Fact, which joined the program in January, issued a report urging Facebook to provide more… Continue Reading →

Hong Kong – Protesters clashed with police again in Hong Kong on Tuesday night after reports that some of their detained colleagues would be charged with the relatively serious charge of rioting. Several hundred protesters mobilized in the streets outside… Continue Reading →

The Democratic Party’s two leading progressives came under fire on Tuesday from a debate stage stuffed with moderates who said their “impossible” proposals and “wish-list economics” risked keeping Republican President… Read more » The post Democratic Debate Highlights: Moderates Assail… Continue Reading →

Southaven, MS – A gunman described as a disgruntled Walmart employee fatally shot two co-workers and wounded a police officer before he was shot and arrested Tuesday morning at a Walmart store in northern Mississippi, authorities said. DeSoto County District… Continue Reading →