Month January 2020

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A major gathering of world leaders in Jerusalem meant to highlight the world’s determination to learn the lessons of the Holocaust has become mired in controversy even before it has started, dragging Israel into a battle over… Continue Reading →

Chaim Ehrenfeld’s health journey was already a tough one. After years of fighting liver cirrhosis, he was finally approved for a transplant. The organs were accepted and it looked like everything was on its way up. Until, remember family and… Continue Reading →

Shortly before they were rounded up by Nazi troops in Belgium and deported to Auschwitz in 1942, the parents of 3-year-old Maurice Gluck placed their only child in the care… Read more » The post Survivor Stories Spotlight Auschwitz Liberation… Continue Reading →

Three Palestinians who were shot dead by Israeli soldiers on Tuesday night as they infiltrated across the Gaza border fence were apparently planning to carry out a terror attack, according… Read more » The post Palestinians Shot at Gaza Border… Continue Reading →

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A 12-year-old boy R”L fell to his death in Ashdod on Wednesday afternoon. It happened at around 6:20PM, when the boy fell of a 5th-story window in Ashdod.  After receiving initial medical care at the scene by United Hatzalah volunteers… Continue Reading →

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet with the mother of an Israeli tourist jailed in Russia for carrying a few grams of hashish, the Kremlin said Wednesday. Putin will meet with Naama Issachar’s mother during… Continue Reading →

The Lakewood Police Department this afternoon announced the launch of the Strategic Response Unit, as well as other initiatives to enhance security around Lakewood. Overseen by Lieutenant LeRoy Marshall, the Strategic Response Unit was designed and implemented to address the… Continue Reading →

Chinese health authorities urged people in the city of Wuhan to avoid crowds and public gatherings, after warning that a new viral illness that has infected more than 400 people and killed at least 17 could spread further. The appeal… Continue Reading →

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — General Motors’ self-driving car company will attempt to deliver on its long-running promise to provide a more environmentally friendly ride-hailing service in an unorthodox vehicle designed to eliminate the need for human operators to transport people… Continue Reading →

Over the next several days, world leaders will gather twice to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of Nazi Germany’s death camps. That there will be two competing ceremonies – one in Jerusalem on… Continue Reading →

Technology companies led stocks higher on Wall Street in afternoon trading Wednesday, erasing the market’s losses from the day before. The rebound came as health authorities around the world took… Read more » The post U.S. Stocks Rise as Health… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday minimized the severity of head injuries sustained by U.S. troops during the Iranian missile strikes on two Iraqi air bases as he was pressed on why he’d claimed no troops had been… Continue Reading →

U.S. home sales climbed 3.6% in December, but a record-low inventory of houses on the market has caused prices to surge as affordability is worsening. The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that sales of existing homes rose last month… Continue Reading →

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is recommending a proposal that would give him the ability to close state prisons on a faster timeline. The measure is included in Cuomo’s budget proposal, which was rolled out Tuesday. The proposal would allow… Continue Reading →

MONSEY, N.Y. (JTA) — Eleven days after a man barged into a rabbi’s home on Hanukkah here and stabbed five Jews, Josef Margaretten was patrolling this Hasidic neighborhood in an SUV marked with police-like insignia and equipped with siren and… Continue Reading →

In response to numerous complaints about traffic backups, the Lakewood Township has changed a permanent traffic light on Clifton Avenue into a flashing light. at those two intersections are not properly synced. The Mayor says the Township will keep the… 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… Read more » The post Trump Meets Iraqi Counterpart, First… Continue Reading →

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Historians in southern Poland say they have uncovered wreckage of a World War II bomber used by the Soviet air force before the plane was downed 75 years ago. Parts of the U.S.-made B-25 Mitchell and… Continue Reading →

“Go outside,” French President Emmanuel Macron demanded in English in a melee with Israeli security men on Wednesday, demanding they leave a religious site in Yerushalayim that he visited before… Read more » The post Macron Argues With Israeli Security… Continue Reading →

A federal judge says it’s likely that Microsoft was trying to avoid or evade paying U.S. taxes and is ordering the company to hand over financial documents from more than a decade ago. The Internal Revenue Service has been seeking… Continue Reading →