Month January 2020

The death toll from a new virus has risen to 80 with more than 2,700 confirmed cases, China’s government said Monday, after the health minister warned that the virus’s ability… Read more » The post China counts 2,700 cases of… Continue Reading →

ICELAND (VINnews) — On Sunday evening, a LOT airlines flight from Warsaw to New York was forced to make an emergency landing in Iceland. According to reports, the plane was forced to land due to an intoxicated passenger causing a… Continue Reading →

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) retweeted a false and unverified accusation that a herd of violent Israel settlers kidnapped, assaulted and murdered an Arab child from Beit Chanina who disappeared late Friday afternoon. As Israel Police searched for the boy throughout… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Justice Ministry said Sunday that David Bitan, a close confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will be charged with taking bribes pending a hearing with the attorney general. Bitan, a parliament member from Netanyahu’s Likud party,… Continue Reading →

Khal Zichron Yisroel is under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Rotberg.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says an NPR host lied in setting up an interview with him on Friday, but email records support the journalist’s account of how the contentious… Read more » The post Emails Support NPR Host Amid… Continue Reading →

View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Lakewood Scoop (@thelakewoodscoop) on Jan 26, 2020 at 4:05pm PST View this post on Instagram More from the special Misameach Family Center wedding. A post shared by The Lakewood Scoop… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (VINnews) — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler announced on Sunday that he will be missing parts of the Senate impeachment trial in order to take care of his ailing wife. “In December, following the House Judiciary Committee markup… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump told his national security adviser he wanted to maintain a freeze on military assistance to Ukraine until it launched political investigations into his Democratic rivals, according to… Read more » The post Report: Bolton Says Trump Tied… Continue Reading →

  LPD Unveils Strategic Response Unit The Lakewood Police Department (LPD) unveiled a new unit geared towards addressing homeland security threats and strengthening community relations. Known as the Strategic Response… Read more » The post Lakewood Briefs appeared first on… Continue Reading →

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will join leaders from around the world at a ceremony in Poland on Monday commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death… Read more » The post Cuomo Heads to Poland for… Continue Reading →

U.S. presidential contender Michael Bloomberg joked on Sunday he was the only Jewish candidate who does not want to turn America into a “kibbutz,” a reference to collectivist farming and… Read more » The post Trailing Sanders, Bloomberg Pans a… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (Israel Hayom) — Following reports that the Trump administration will present its Middle East peace plan later this week, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Craft has postponed a planned visit to Israel. Craft was supposed to arrive in… Continue Reading →

After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries in 2018, the ruling appeared to shut down legal challenges that claimed the policy was rooted in anti-Muslim bias. But a federal appeals… Continue Reading →

It was a few hours before the entrance of shabbos just over a week ago, as 20-year-old Israeli Neriah Or, his sister, and his kallah finished up a tour of kivrei tzaddikim in the Ukraine. They were in a car… Continue Reading →

A LOT Airlines flight from Warsaw to NY was forced to make an emergency landing on Sunday night. One of the approximately 50 Jewish passengers on the flights told YWN that a severely intoxicated passenger caused a major disturbance on… Continue Reading →

  The post Photo Gallery of Siyum Hashas in Chicago, Dallas and Denver appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Photo Gallery of 13th Siyum HaShas at MetLife Stadium Photo Gallery of 11th Siyum Hashas 13th Siyum HaShas at MetLife… Continue Reading →

  The post Gallery of Siyum Hashas in Chicago, Dallas and Denver appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Photo Gallery of 13th Siyum HaShas at MetLife Stadium Photo Gallery of 11th Siyum Hashas 13th Siyum HaShas at MetLife Stadium… Continue Reading →

RAKEK, Slovenia (AP) — For Marija Frlan it’s as symbolic as it can get: A survivor of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, the Slovenian woman turns 100 years old on Monday, the international Holocaust Remembrance Day. Frlan,… Continue Reading →

Jerrold Nadler, one of the U.S. House lawmakers leading efforts to remove President Donald Trump from office said on Sunday he would miss some of the Senate impeachment trial after… Read more » The post U.S. House Judiciary Head Nadler… Continue Reading →

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed additional travel-related infections of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the United States, this time in Arizona and California. These patients recently returned to the U.S. from Wuhan, China, where an… Continue Reading →