Month February 2020

The gaon and tzaddik, the Clevelander Rebbe, z’tl, was niftar about 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday morning at the age of 88. The Rebbe was hospitalized in critical condition in Ma’ayanei HaYeshua hospital in Bnei Brak in recent days and many… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is readying an urgent budget request to address the deadly coronavirus outbreak, whose rapid spread is spooking financial markets and restricting international travel. The request is still being developed but is likely to come… Continue Reading →

The United States and South Korea are considering curtailing joint military exercises due to concerns about the spread of coronavirus, officials said Monday. After a meeting at the Pentagon to review a full range of issues, including a standoff over… Continue Reading →

PHOENIX (AP) — Pastor Antonio Velasquez says that before the Trump administration announced a crackdown on immigrants using government social services, people lined up before sunrise outside a state office in a largely Latino Phoenix neighborhood to sign up for… Continue Reading →

Bernie Sanders’ ascendance in the Democratic presidential primary has brought louder calls for some of his rivals to drop out of the race. Centrists need to consolidate their support behind a single candidate if they want to ensure the party… Continue Reading →

Russia wants to watch Americans “tear ourselves apart” as the United States heads toward elections, an FBI official warned Monday. David Porter, an assistant section chief with the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, accused Russia of conducting brazen operations aimed… Continue Reading →

Israel’s Supreme Court ruled last week that Yigal Machlouf of Beer Sheva, an Israeli imprisoned in Thailand for drug dealing (Ecstacy pills) will be transferred to Israel and continue his sentence there, Chareidim10 reported. Machlouf was sentenced to death about… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia wants to watch Americans “tear ourselves apart” as the United States heads toward elections, an FBI official warned Monday. David Porter, an assistant section chief with the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, accused Russia of conducting… Continue Reading →

Truth-telling journalist or reckless criminal: A British judge was given two conflicting portraits of Julian Assange as the WikiLeaks founder’s long-awaited extradition hearing began Monday in a London court. A lawyer for the U.S. authorities, who want to try Assange… Continue Reading →

After spending two months far away from home, each bochor from Yeshivas Doresh in Miami went home for Chanukah. They had travelled from as far as Switzerland, Israel, Australia and Lakewood to be in Yeshivas Doresh and they had earned… Continue Reading →

New York State Police say they plan to go forward with a body camera pilot program for state troopers, a move that would change the agency’s status as one of the few primary state law enforcement agencies in the nation… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews apologized Monday to Bernie Sanders for comparing the Democratic senator’s win in the Nevada caucus to the Nazi takeover of France. Matthews’ self-described “bad” analogy deepened the discontent that the presidential candidate and… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is adopting new ethical principles as it prepares to accelerate its use of artificial intelligence technology on the battlefield. The new principles call for people to “exercise appropriate levels of judgment and care” when deploying… Continue Reading →

The museum of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp is objecting to a scene in a new Amazon TV series that shows a murderous game of human chess being played there, insisting that no such thing took place at the… Continue Reading →

Pastor Antonio Velasquez says that before the Trump administration announced a crackdown on immigrants using government social services, people lined up before sunrise outside a state office in a largely… Read more » The post Crackdown on Immigrants who Use… Continue Reading →

Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign: ___ Days to South Carolina primary: 5 Days to Super Tuesday: 8 Days to general election: 253 ___ THE NARRATIVE Bernie Sanders has become… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (JNS) — This is a scary moment for centrist and pro-Israel Democrats. Sen. Bernie Sanders’s overwhelming victory in the Nevada caucuses, coupled with the disastrous debut of Michael Bloomberg in last week’s Las Vegas debate, has forced the party’s… Continue Reading →

ROTTERDAM (JTA) — Employees of the Dutch national railways sang for train passengers a soccer song about Jews that the state-owned company said was “wholly inappropriate.” Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or NS, apologized on Sunday for the incident, which happened just after… Continue Reading →

A woman has been arrested after being accused of assaulting a federal air marshal on Feb. 22 while aboard a United Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Dulles International Airport. While on the flight, the woman allegedly said “I’m going… Continue Reading →

It was cleared for publication on Monday that a huge drug lab was discovered in the heart of a residential neighborhood in Bnei Brak last week. Israel police raided a huge three-level marijuana lab on Rabban Gamliel Street in Bnei… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee wants the world to know that American Jews and lawmakers from across the political spectrum support it, even if Bernie Sanders does not. A day after Sanders, a leading candidate for… Continue Reading →