Month January 2020

Right-wing MKs may skip next week’s Knesset session to choose members of a committee that will hear appeals by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for parliamentary immunity on the corruption charges… Read more » The post Likud, Right May Boycott PM’s… Continue Reading →

Asian stock markets tumbled Tuesday as concern about the economic impact of a Chinese disease outbreak rose. Japan’s central bank left its key interest rate unchanged and revised up its… Read more » The post Asian Stocks Tumble on Growing… Continue Reading →

A 11-year-old Jewish girl was tragically killed late on Monday night, after a two alarm fire broke out in her house on Ocean Parkway. According to the FDNY, police responded to… Read more » The post BD”E: 11-Year-Old Girl Killed in… Continue Reading →

Iran has asked the U.S. and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, a request that will add to international frustration at… Read more » The post Iran Seeks Help Reading Plane’s… Continue Reading →

There is an exciting new app that has created a buzz in the New York metropolitan area and soon will spread around the world. This new app is Shulert, and it is now helping hundreds of avreichim and yunge leit… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — Legal filings to the Senate have laid out the arguments that will be made in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, where he faces two distinct allegations of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. A look at… Continue Reading →

A child was R”L killed in a fast-moving fire in Flatbush, Monday night. It happened at around 10:30PM at 757 Ocean Parkway near Foster Avenue. FDNY says they found heavy fire blowing out of the windows upon their arrival. The… Continue Reading →

One person was seriously injured in a fire in a private home in Flatbush, Monday night. It happened at around 10:30PM at 757 Ocean Parkway near Foster Avenue. FDNY says they found heavy fire blowing out of the windows upon… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — With health care an election-year priority, a major doctors’ organization on Monday called for sweeping government action to guarantee coverage for all, reduce costs and improve the basic well-being of Americans. Declaring that the U.S. health care… Continue Reading →

Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears ready to set an April 28 special election — the same day as the state’s presidential primary — to fill a congressional seat left vacant by a western New York Republican who has since been convicted… Continue Reading →

Dr. Rich Roberts was hosted this past Motzei Shabbos on the Zev Brenner Show. The show is America’s leading Jewish program airing on WSNR 620 AM, and on www.talklinecommunications.com  

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Shortly after her capture by the Nazis in 1944, Dutch resistance fighter Selma van de Perre was transferred from a regular prison to the worst concentration camp in the Netherlands. Van de Perre arrived at the infamous… Continue Reading →

Sen. Chuck Schumer stood at the finish line of a half-marathon in New York City, slapping high-fives. Then he was off to Washington for a meeting about the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. By the end of the night,… Continue Reading →

Reb Moshe Aron Z”L was a renowned Talmid Chochom.

Democratic “Squad” member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. compared Monday’s gun rights protest in Richmond, Va., to the protests that followed the deaths of Freddie Gray and Eric Garner and questioned what she thought was the lack of police presence at… Continue Reading →

When President Donald Trump’s historic impeachment trial is called to order in the Senate this week, he won’t be watching from inside the chamber or on television from the White House. He’ll be thousands of miles away at the Davos… Continue Reading →

NORTH CAOLINA (JTA) – The son of a North Carolina Court of Appeals judge pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges for threatening a local synagogue. William Warden, 21, son of Judge Lucy Inman, did not attend the hearing on Wednesday, since… Continue Reading →

TEMESCAL VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California driver intentionally rammed a Toyota Prius with six teenage boys inside, killing three and injuring three others before fleeing, authorities said Monday. The Prius went off the road and slammed into a… Continue Reading →

BEIJING (AP) — The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, a development that raises the possibility that it could spread more quickly and widely…. Continue Reading →

The car of Yareach Toker, a Chareidi media consultant and Degel HaTorah’s political strategist, was stolen from his home in the neighborhood of Har Shmuel in Givat Zev on Sunday night at 8 p.m. Toker noticed the thief as he… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday proposed a condensed, two-day calendar for each side to give opening statements in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, ground rules that are raising objections from Democrats on the eve of… Continue Reading →