Month September 2019
Consumer confidence fell this month, a likely indication that growing economic uncertainties are taking a toll on American households. The Conference Board, a business research group, says its consumer confidence… Read more » The post U.S. Consumer Confidence Drops As… Continue Reading →
A rising frequency of anti-Semitic attacks around the world has “created a climate of fear” among Jews, according to a new United Nations report on anti-Semitism by Dr. Ahmed Shaheed,… Read more » The post U.N. Issues Unprecedented Report on… Continue Reading →
U.S. home prices rose in July from a year earlier by the smallest amount in seven years, as modest sales are forcing sellers to keep costs in check. The S&P… Read more » The post U.S. Home Prices Rise At… Continue Reading →
Due to the wave of vaping-related illnesses and deaths, Senate President Steve Sweeney today called on law enforcement at the municipal, county and state levels to crack down on unregulated and open e-cigarettes and vaping products. “We don’t need a… Continue Reading →
Google won a major case in the European Union on Tuesday, when the bloc’s top court ruled that the U.S. internet giant doesn’t have to extend the EU’s “right to… Read more » The post Google Wins Case Over Reach… Continue Reading →
A last-minute move to pull a zoning change that would have eased stiff restrictions on building houses of worship in Toms River boiled over into a public squabble among the… Read more » The post Controversy Over Proposed Zoning Changes… Continue Reading →
Israel’s national library has unearthed an 80-year-old handwritten letter that Mahatma Gandhi sent a Jewish official upon the outbreak of World War II. The father of modern India wrote the… Read more » The post Gandhi Rosh Hashanah Greeting Published… Continue Reading →
The Health Ministry has announced a crackdown on vaping, starting with an immediate ban on flavored cartridges of oil used in e-cigarettes, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday. The… Read more » The post Health Ministry Launches Crackdown on… Continue Reading →
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — She stepped onto the biggest of global stages to face the most diverse of audiences, and she made it count. “How dare you?” she kept saying to some of the world’s most powerful people. “You are… Continue Reading →
China plans to join governments that are imposing controls on tobacco liquid and additives for e-cigarettes amid rising concern about deaths and illnesses blamed on vaping, a state news agency said Tuesday. Read more on Yeshiva World News
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NEW YORK (JNS) In his speech at the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump called on the international community to take action against the threat from Iran, which he said also employs anti-Semitism…. Continue Reading →
(JTA) — Jewish men were attacked in two incidents in Brooklyn neighborhoods in recent days. The New York borough has seen a number of assaults against identifiable Jews in the past several months. On Monday, a man walking to morning… Continue Reading →
An explosive story broken by the Wall Street Journal has pundits and Democrats (are they actually different?) calling again for the impeachment of President Trump. The WSJ on Thursday wrote that a part of the ongoing whistleblower saga raging in… Continue Reading →
The Cellcom Company, a mobile phone service supplier in Israel, on Monday evening was given the approval of its fiscal rehabilitation program as the company continues to fall in its standing, unable to compete with the strong competition and lowering… Continue Reading →
BRONX – A man has died and his 5-year-old daughter suffered light injuries on Monday when he jumped in front of a subway train while holding onto the little girl, police and witnesses said. A witness said that she saw… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump personally ordered his staff to freeze nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine a few days before a phone call in which he pressured the Eastern European nation’s leader to investigate the family of… Continue Reading →
President Trump, in a fiery address Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly, tore into open-border activists for pushing what he described as an “evil” agenda under the “cloak” of social justice, while warning Iran to abandon its confrontational course and… Continue Reading →
(JTA) — The main outlet for kosher food in Liverpool, England, which closed after it was caught selling nonkosher meat and poultry, has reopened under new ownership. Roseman’s Delicatessen received a license from the Liverpool Kashrut Commission three months after… Continue Reading →
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the actor elected Ukraine’s leader in April, took office pledging to focus on ending the separatist fighting in the country’s east, fomented by Russia. But now, barely 100… Read more » The post Ukraine Leader Caught Between Two… Continue Reading →