Month February 2020

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped more than 1,000 points Monday amid a broad global markets sell-off as a surge in virus cases and a worrisome spread of the disease… Read more » The post Global Markets Fall Sharply as… Continue Reading →

After a day of escalating violence and the threat of war, Palestinian Islamic Jihad indicated on Monday evening that it has concluded the current round of attacks on Israel. “The… Read more » The post Islamic Jihad Says Finished for… Continue Reading →

Hello All, As you may be aware, applications for the Federal Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) open today and close on March 27th, 2020 at 5:00 PM. Currently, there are two separate grants available for New Jersey mosdos: the State… Continue Reading →

Firefighters from federal and New Jersey agencies battled a forest fire for a second day Monday in a popular hiking area that is crossed by the Appalachian Trail and a major interstate highway. The fire burned in New Jersey’s Worthington… Continue Reading →

BERLIN (AP) — A man intentionally drove a car into a crowd of people at a Carnival parade in a small German town Monday, injuring dozens of people including children, police said. The driver was arrested, but police couldn’t immediately… Continue Reading →

The post Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein Receives Bracha From HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky Visits Hagaon Harav Steinman Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky Davens at Kosel Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky Davens at… Continue Reading →

Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty Monday to restored charges that accuse him of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself last year in Chicago and falsely reporting to police that the phony attack was real. His lawyer,… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (JTA) — At least four infants have contracted herpes in New York City in the past six months after undergoing a circumcision rite in which the ritual circumciser, or mohel, cleans the circumcision wound by oral suction. Three… Continue Reading →

Several weeks after the unveiling of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan, an Israeli-American team has begun the work of filling in the details to a rough map prepared… Read more » The post U.S.-Israel Mapping Team Goes to… Continue Reading →

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — By the fall of 2018, when Democrats were promoting a slate of centrist candidates to topple Republicans in Congress, Bernie Sanders was seeing a very different picture. The Vermont senator and avowed democratic socialist was convinced… Continue Reading →

Reb Yosef Weber, of Williamsburg, long-time gabbai of the Pupa Shul, has passed away at the age of 87. Reb Yosef was born in Hungary to his parents Reb Shlomo… Read more » The post BDE: Reb Yosef Weber, Z”l,… Continue Reading →

Phil Murphy’s approval ratings among New Jersey voters has remained steady as he crosses the halfway point of his term as New Jersey governor, a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University shows. According to the just-released poll, Murphy is viewed… Continue Reading →

Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday on some but not all charges at his assault trial, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement. He was convicted on charges stemming from assaults against women… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday at his sexual assault trial, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement. He was found guilty of criminal sex act for assaulting production… Continue Reading →

A woman tried to board a plane in New York with a loaded handgun in her carry-on luggage, the Transportation Security Administration said. TSA officers spotted the .380-caliber gun as the woman went through security at Stewart International Airport in… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JNS) — A Jewish resident of eastern Jerusalem reported to police that an Arab driver attempted to run him over on Sunday night. The resident, who was armed, fired his weapon into the air, scaring off the attacker. Police… Continue Reading →

Gaza rocket attacks and Israeli Air Force retaliatory strikes renewed on late Monday afternoon. Air raid sirens sounded in southern Israel as jets and combat helicopters struck targets in Gaza… Read more » The post IDF Pummels Gaza, Iron Dome… Continue Reading →

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LONDON (AP) — The U.S. government began outlining its extradition case against Julian Assange in a London court on Monday, arguing that the WikiLeaks founder is not a free-speech champion but an “ordinary” criminal who put many lives at risk… Continue Reading →

Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that Sherod Coleman, 35, of Lakewood, was sentenced on February 21, by the Honorable Michael T. Collins, J.S.C., to seven years New Jersey State Prison (NJSP) with a forty-two month period of parole… Continue Reading →