Month January 2020

Elizabeth Warren says she’ll create a federal task force to investigate corruption during the Trump administration if she’s elected president. The Massachusetts senator on Tuesday released a plan that her campaign says will “restore integrity and competence” to government after… Continue Reading →

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Hundreds of Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico in hopes of eventually reaching the U.S. were sent back to their homeland or retreated across the border Tuesday after Mexican troops blocked their way. Fewer than 100… Continue Reading →

LONDON (JTA) – A transgender woman in England has given up her legal fight to see her five haredi Orthodox children. The woman has not seen the children, whom she fathered when she was living as a man, since leaving… Continue Reading →

Russian President Vladimir Putin is a complex personality and there are various complaints heard about him, such as his iron rule, his repression of political opposition and his support of Syria. However, it is clear that Putin treats the Jewish… Continue Reading →

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation Tuesday to the Auschwitz memorial site in Poland ahead of the 75th anniversary of the day Soviet troops liberated the sprawling… Read more » The post Pelosi Visits Auschwitz Before Anniversary… Continue Reading →

After New Jersey Governor today signed a law banning the sale of all flavored vaping products, Dr. Indra Cidambi – NJ-based addiction psychiatrist and medical director at the Center for Network Therapy – released the following statement. “While banning flavored… Continue Reading →

Ironically, despite the almost 50 world leaders arriving in Jerusalem on Wednesday to mark the 75th year since Auschwitz was liberated, only about 30 Holocaust survivors are expected to participate in the World Holocaust Forum at Yad Vashem, according to… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP -The Conversation) – Seventy-five years ago, the world first saw the horrors of Nazi concentration camps. Shot by photographers Lee Miller, George Rodger and others, and published in Time, the Daily Mirror and other outlets, these pictures… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A security force nearly 10,000 strong will be protecting world leaders and others attending the 5th World Holocaust Forum at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Thursday. Operation Future, which is being led by the Israel Police, was… Continue Reading →

A new Siena College poll released Tuesday found declining support for recent changes to New York’s bail law. The new law, which eliminates money bail for the wide majority of misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, has come under intense scrutiny as… Continue Reading →

The unprecedented flow of leaders and dignitaries to Yerushalayim from some forty-nine countries began on Tuesday as Israeli officialdom, Yad Vashem and 10,000 Israeli police braced for a two-day event… Read more » The post World Leaders Arriving for Holocaust… Continue Reading →

A federal appeals court upheld former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s corruption conviction Tuesday but ordered a resentencing after reversing the conviction on some charges. The ruling by a… Read more » The post New Sentencing Ordered for Sheldon… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] Meet your next client over steak… A diverse group of ambitious entrepreneurs, men and women, from throughout the Lakewood region, will be ready for business at the upcoming VIP networking event hosted by the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce…. Continue Reading →

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to refrain from using World War II and Holocaust victims for current political goals and pointed to wartime documents in which the Polish government called on the Allies… Continue Reading →

NYC Councilman Chaim Deutsch has filed paperwork to run for Congress in in New York’s 9th District. He hopes to unseat Democrat Yvette Clark, who has held the seat in 2007. Councilman Chaim Deutsch is a life-long Brooklynite, representing the… Continue Reading →

Multiple people reportedly overdosed on drugs in separate incidents in Lakewood today. The patients were given the narcan antidote (nalaxone), and then hospitalized. Officials on multiple different occasions told TLS they feel the spike in overdoses are due to the… Continue Reading →

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague rejected on Tuesday the request of prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate alleged Israeli war crimes. However, the decision was based on procedural… Read more » The post ICC Tells Bensouda to Revise… Continue Reading →

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu‏‏ and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz traded taunts on Tuesday over each other’s election promises to annex the Jordan Valley. During a visit to… Read more » The post Netanyahu, Gantz in Slugfest Over… Continue Reading →

In the spirit of bridge-building, Hasidic Jews, African-Americans and others came together to volunteer for local communities and for Puerto Rico on Martin Luther King Day. Inspired by the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., volunteers from very diverse… Continue Reading →

Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC Alerts Consumers of Zantac Lawsuit   Attorney Advertising– NEW YORK—Have you taken Zantac and been diagnosed with Cancer? The Zantac lawsuit claims that Zantac can be contaminated with the cancer-causing substance N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). If you… Continue Reading →