Month February 2020

By Monet Binder, Esq. Is it possible to protect the family home if a loved one needs long term care in a nursing home facility?  If you are like most of us, you want to preserve your assets, which you… Continue Reading →

Britain published its opening demands for trade talks with the European Union on Thursday, delivering a blunt threat to walk away from the table if there is no progress within… Read more » The post U.K. Opens EU Trade Talks… Continue Reading →

The Likud and the right continue to show forward momentum in one of the last polls that will be released before next Monday’s elections. The poll by the Direct Plus… Read more » The post Poll Shows Likud, Right Closing… Continue Reading →

The Health Ministry said Thursday that an Israeli man who returned from Italy has been diagnosed with coronavirus. At a press conference Thursday, Health Ministry director-general Moshe Bar Siman-Tov said… Read more » The post First Confirmed Case in Israel:… Continue Reading →

A Korean Air flight attendant who worked on flights between Seoul and Los Angeles subsequently tested positive for the coronavirus, South Korea’s disease control agency and sources said on Thursday.… Read more » The post S. Korea Says Flight Attendant… Continue Reading →

A group of researchers in northern Israel said Thursday they had achieved a “scientific breakthrough” in treating coronavirus. At a press conference, researchers of the Migal Galilee Research Institute said… Read more » The post Israeli Researchers Announce Breakthrough in… Continue Reading →

Tunisia has a new government at last, after four months of arguing among rival parties in the young North African democracy. After a 15-hour debate, the Tunisian Parliament voted 129-77… Read more » The post Tunisia Approves Government After Months… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump declared that a widespread U.S. outbreak of the new respiratory virus sweeping the globe isn’t inevitable even as top health authorities at his side warned Americans that more infections are coming. Shortly after Trump spoke Wednesday, the… Continue Reading →

Shares fell in Asia on Thursday after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. was stepping up its efforts to combat the virus outbreak that began in China, as the number… Read more » The post Asian Shares Slump After Trump… Continue Reading →

It took eight months of work and 600 soldiers and security personnel to track down what has apparently been one of the biggest sources of weapons for Arab terrorists in… Read more » The post PA: Terrorists Turned Chinese Toy… Continue Reading →

As the worst-hit areas of Asia continued to struggle with a viral epidemic, with hundreds more cases reported Thursday in South Korea and China, worries about infection and containment spread… Read more » The post Hardest-Hit China, South Korea Count… Continue Reading →

Crews scrubbed everything from money to buses, military bases were on high alert and quarantines were enforced Wednesday from a beachfront resort in the Atlantic to a remote island in the Pacific, as the world worked to halt the fast-spreading… Continue Reading →

More than 100 people on Long Island are being monitored for coronavirus, health officials said Wednesday, as Nassau County awaits test results on one person who showed symptoms of the virus. There are no confirmed cases of the coronavirus, known… Continue Reading →

Delta Air Lines is reducing flights to South Korea while Hawaiian Airlines will suspend them entirely, as airlines deal with growing concern about the spread of the new virus beyond China. Delta said Wednesday that it will suspend flights between… Continue Reading →

Ha’Mekubal Harav Gamliel Rabinowitz publicized a special message to his chassidim and talmidim about the rapidly spreading coronavirus crisis. “The coronavirus is an epidemic,” Harav Gamliel said. “We need to guard ourselves so it won’t affect us. I promise you… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — The campaign to reelect President Donald Trump sued The New York Times for defamation Wednesday, saying it was responsible for an essay by a former executive editor for the newspaper that claimed the campaign made a… Continue Reading →

SOUTH KOREA (AP) — Delta Air Lines is reducing flights to South Korea while Hawaiian Airlines will suspend them entirely, as airlines deal with growing concern about the spread of the new virus beyond China. Delta said Wednesday that it… Continue Reading →

U.S. sales of new homes jumped 7.9% in January to the fastest pace in more than 12 years, a positive sign for economic growth. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that new homes sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of… Continue Reading →

(JTA) – This is the fourth op-ed in a series of pieces about anti-Semitism and Jewish issues written by 2020 presidential candidates. This one is by Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts.  The Jewish Telegraphic Agency has sent five questions about… Continue Reading →

A police officer from a Long Island department shot and killed a man in New York City after chasing him across the border into the city, police said. The Nassau County Police Department released few details of the shooting that… Continue Reading →

Numerous residents across Ocean County tell TLS that they have been receiving text messages on their phone directing them to watch a video posted on YouTube that attacks Jackson Township and its officials for their alleged discrimination against its Orthodox… Continue Reading →