Month February 2020

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators on Friday approved a new type of cholesterol-lowering drug aimed at millions of people who can’t tolerate — or don’t get enough help from — widely used statin pills like Lipitor and Crestor. The… Continue Reading →

The U.S. government and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will face off Monday in a high-security London courthouse, a decade after WikiLeaks infuriated American officials by publishing a trove of classified military documents. A judge at Woolwich Crown Court will begin… Continue Reading →

BARSTOW, Calif. (AP) — A self-styled daredevil died Saturday after a rocket in which he launched himself crashed into the ground, a colleague and a witness said. “Mad” Mike Hughes died after the homemade rocket crashed on private property near… Continue Reading →

AALST, Belgium (JTA) — Caricatures of Jews, including ones depicting them as ants, were prominently displayed at this city’s annual parade. The displays came a year after the Jewish Telegraphic Agency exposed anti-Semitic displays in last year’s parade in Aalst,… Continue Reading →

A Florida man was arrested last week on charges of threatening to carry out a mass shooting attack at the Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida in Fort Meyers. Sheriff Carmine Marceno of the Lee County Sherrif’s office said on Thursday… Continue Reading →

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Maryland are criticizing a history lesson at a public high school near Baltimore that compared President Donald Trump with Nazis and communists. A slide used in an Advanced Placement history class at Loch… Continue Reading →

The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security has increased its threat level assessment of white supremacist groups from moderate to high. The change was announced in a report released by Homeland Security’s state agency office. The increased vigilance by law… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JNS) — At least 180 Israeli students have been put in isolation after coming in contact with a group of South Korean tourists who tested positive for Covid-19, the disease spread by the SARS-Cov-2 virus (aka “coronavirus”) after returning… Continue Reading →

Incoming rocket alert sirens were heard in the city of Ashkelon and surrounding communities, Sunday afternoon. Additional sirens were also heard in the community of Kibbutz Kissufim, east of the… Read more » The post Rocket Warning Sirens Sound in… Continue Reading →

LONDON (AP) — Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary is facing criticism for suggesting Muslim men should be singled out for extra scrutiny at airports. The boss of the Irish budget carrier told Saturday’s Times of London that families with young… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] There’s the story of nightmarish turmoil. The high-risk doctor sat with the hopeful young couple in his office. His face was drawn.  “We don’t know if the baby will make it,” he said grimly, and all their hopes and dreams… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] Ruth & Matisyahu Shzigel chose to do something that most families dare not attempt:To raise 16 children. Like many to choose to live such a life, they did it with joy & seemingly endless energy. Mother Ruth raised and… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel finds itself in a familiar place after a tumultuous election campaign — with maverick politician Avigdor Lieberman still seemingly in control of the country’s fate. The run-up to Israel’s third election in less than a year… Continue Reading →

Order all your disposable products at wholesale prices! New website open to the public for Purim and Pesach orders.  Largest online selection that you will not find in the grocery store! Hundreds of items to chose from! Save up to… Continue Reading →

Depite international outrage including being kicked off UNESCO last year, the city of Aalst in Belgium once again is having despicable anti-semitic floats at their annual carnival. Ahead of today’s parade Mayor Christoph D’Haese said, context mattered and there was… Continue Reading →

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has what is probably a cancerous tumor on his kidney and will undergo surgery next month to remove it, he said Saturday. “Friends — I’ve got a tumor on my left… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] Most of our schools at this time of the year learn with the boys Hilchos Tzitzis. The Rebbes teach the halachos and then they buy the Tzitzis and make them together in class. It is heartwarming to come to… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Sunday it shot two Palestinian militants trying to place an explosive device along the border with Gaza — one of whom was killed according to a Palestinian official. Israel blames the Islamic militant… Continue Reading →

Residents of the community of Har Gilo in Gush Etzion on Sunday afternoon blocked roads into town, and vowed to keep the roads closed until plans to relocate several hundred… Read more » The post Gush Etzion Residents: Don’t Send… Continue Reading →

Itzik, known in Israel as “Itzik HaSini” (Chinese Itzik) is a Chinese citizen living in Beijing who speaks fluent Hebrew and works for the China Radio International (CRI) in the Hebrew department and also teaches Hebrew at a university. Recently… Continue Reading →