Month January 2020

President Donald Trump on Wednesday minimized the severity of head injuries sustained by U.S. troops during an Iranian missile strike on an Iraqi air base as he was pressed on why he’d claimed no troops had been injured in the… Continue Reading →

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin repeatedly offered Polish President Andrzej Duda an opportunity to speak in Yerushalyim if he would attend the World Holocaust Forum, but was turned down, according to… Read more » The post Polish President Turned Down Rivlin… Continue Reading →

Deaths from China’s new flu-like virus rose to 17 on Wednesday, with more than 540 cases confirmed, leading the city at the center of the outbreak to close transportation networks… Read more » The post China’s Wuhan Shuts Down Transportation… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two center-left parties in Israel merged their electoral lists last week ahead of a submission deadline for the March 2 election. Labor, the “founding party” of Israel, will run with Meretz, a left-wing party long committed to… Continue Reading →

The days when the only concerns parents had about their children’s schools related to its faculty, parent body and curriculum are over. These days, equally, if not more, important is the question, “Does my child’s school have appropriate security?” Unfortunately,… Continue Reading →

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions shares his reaction to the Senate impeachment trial on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ WATCH:

An 80-Year-Old woman was evacuated from a burning building in Arad in serious condition. The incident took place on Elazar Ben Yair St. in the southern city. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and Arad Chapter Head Avi Elchayani was one of… Continue Reading →

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A fight is coming to California over whether to list one of the world’s most common over-the-counter drugs as a carcinogen, echoing recent high-profile battles over things like alcohol and… Read more » The post California Considers Declaring Acetaminophen a… Continue Reading →

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The pounding of a single hammer echoed through the stands Tuesday in the Miami Dolphins’ stadium, the reverberations from the Super Bowl’s return to South Florida just beginning. Painters sprayed a logo on the newly… Continue Reading →

Joe Biden sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders after the two candidates exchanged several volleys over Social Security and other matters. And the former vice president pledged in a wide-ranging interview with MSNBC that… Continue Reading →

The Trump administration on Wednesday will approve a right-of-way allowing the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline to be built across U.S. land, federal officials told The Associated Press, pushing the… Read more » The post Trump Administration to Approve Keystone… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump on Wednesday minimized the severity of head injuries sustained by U.S. troops during an Iranian missile strike on an Iraqi air base as he was pressed on… Read more » The post Trump Minimizes Severity of Head… Continue Reading →

Seventy-five years after the killing stopped at Auschwitz, the survivors still bear witness, and many observe the rising hatred and anti-Semitism in the world today with a sense of deep… Read more » The post After Auschwitz, Survivors Still Bear… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (VINnews) — New York City Councilman Chaim Deutsch has announced that he will run for Congress in New York’s 9th District, become the latest Democrat to issue a primary challenge to incumbent Rep. Yvette Clark, according to a… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s inaugural committee spent more than $1 million to book a ballroom at the Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital as part of a scheme to “grossly overpay” for party space and enrich the president’s… Continue Reading →

Against the backdrop of rising Anti-Semitism in America, I was surprised this week when Dr. Richard Roberts, a major GOP donor who gave over $1 Million to the Trump campaign sent me an open letter he sent to the Mayor… Continue Reading →

Amid all the solemn recollections of the Holocaust and pledges to fight anti-Semitism at the international conference in Yerushalayim on Wednesday night, inevitably there was small talk, too. Many of… Read more » The post Election Chit-Chat at the Holocaust… Continue Reading →

A day after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu‏‏ and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz tried to outdo each other in promising to annex the Jordan Valley, Channel 13 reported… Read more » The post Report: White House Opposes Jordan… Continue Reading →

During a ceremony at Police Headquarters today, four Lakewood Police Officers were promoted to the rank of Sergeant, and one to Detective. The officers promoted to Sergeant are: Justin Pederson, Chris Dibiase, Kevin Martin and Lenny Nieves Jr. Officer Robert… Continue Reading →

U.S. President Donald Trump hinted that sanctions on Iraq were still a possibility in a bilateral meeting with Iraq’s president Wednesday, the first since a U.S. drone strike on Iraqi soil killed a top Iranian general, straining Washington-Baghdad ties. Iraq’s… Continue Reading →