Month February 2020

Dozens of car windshields were shattered overnight Monday in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem, Kikar Shabbos reported. Residents of the usually peaceful neighborhood reported the vandalism to the police on Tuesday morning. Police arrived, collected evidence from the scene… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ben and Jerry’s Israel is giving Israeli voters a reason to get out on Election Day and vote in the country’s third election in less than a year, and it involves about as many flavors as there… Continue Reading →

Officials scrambled Tuesday to halt the spread of the burgeoning new virus, from northern Italy where troops were dispatched to enforce quarantines and schools were shuttered, to South Korea, where some neighborhoods in a city of 2.5 million were brought… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — A month before the Supreme Court takes up cases over his tax returns and financial records, President Donald Trump on Tuesday made the unusual suggestion that two liberal justices should not take part in those or any… Continue Reading →

The special polling stations for voters in quarantine for exposure to coronavirus will be run by Magen David Adom workers in masks and gloves, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday.… Read more » The post MDA to Run Polling Stations… Continue Reading →

Six New Jersey Democrats piled into a Teamsters hall here last week to make the case for why they should be the ones to take on their party’s longtime ally… Read more » The post Democrats Want Revenge on Jeff… Continue Reading →

The Israeli judiciary became an issue in the election campaign on Tuesday as Blue and White leader Benny Gantz claimed that “we are facing a great danger to the institutions… Read more » The post Gantz Decries Danger to Rule… Continue Reading →

With the death of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, B’Chadrei Chareidim posted an article about the close connection between Mubarak and l’havdil, Maran Hagaon Rav Ovadia Yosef, z’tl. In 2011, when Mubarak faced mass protests in Egypt inspired by the… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] Shalom Torah Academy unites ALL Jews of ALL backgrounds from ALL walks of life within the ALL-encompassing light and warmth of Torah education, coupled with a robust general studies program. That’s what Shalom is ALL about! For almost half… Continue Reading →

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee that sets national health policy, and U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) wrote to Commissioner Steven Hahn of the… Continue Reading →

Seven Democratic presidential hopefuls face off Tuesday night in South Carolina for the 10th Democratic debate. Five questions ahead of that forum: HOW DOES SANDERS HANDLE ATTACKS? Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is winning because his strong base has stayed with… Continue Reading →

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A coalition of 39 states will look into the marketing and sales of vaping products by Juul Labs, including whether the company targeted youths and made misleading claims about nicotine content in its devices, officials announced… Continue Reading →

HELP SAVE RABBI COHEN’S FOOT FROM BEING AMPUTATED! Rabbi Yakov Yechiel Cohen from Yerushalayimis is chushiva talmid chacham and a beloved father to a family of 7 children. CLICK HERE TO DONATE About a year ago Rabbi Cohen was diagnosed… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump demanded that Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg recuse themselves from future cases involving his administration after a dissent from a decision allowing the… Read more » The post Trump Demands Sotomayor Recusal After… Continue Reading →

The banking industry collectively made $233.1 billion in profits in 2019, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said Tuesday, the industry’s second-most profitable year ever. The slight drop in profits from… Read more » The post Banks Made $233.1 Billion in… Continue Reading →

JPMorgan Chase & Co. will no longer do business with coal companies and will restrict financing to companies that drill in the Arctic, the company announced Tuesday. The announcement came… Read more » The post JPMorgan to Stop Lending to… Continue Reading →

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The head of an Iranian government task force on the coronavirus who had urged the public not to overreact about its spread has tested positive for the illness himself, authorities said Tuesday, as new… Continue Reading →

Amazon wants to kill the supermarket checkout line. The online retailing giant is opening its first cashier-less supermarket, where shoppers can grab milk or eggs and walk out without waiting… Read more » The post No Checkout Needed: Amazon Opens… Continue Reading →

Defending the host who has showered him with pageantry, President Donald Trump refused Tuesday to speak out publicly against an Indian citizenship law pushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that has sparked deadly protests over discrimination against Muslims during the… Continue Reading →

The U.N. Security Council issued a unanimous statement on Monday reiterating its support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The statement, which was approved by all 15 UNSC members, including the United States, made no mention of U.S…. Continue Reading →