Month February 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Bernie Sanders scored a commanding victory in Nevada’s presidential caucuses on Saturday, cementing his status as the Democrats’ national front-runner but escalating tensions over whether he’s too liberal to defeat President Donald Trump. As Sanders celebrated,… Continue Reading →

A big, old bear wandered a Los Angeles foothill suburb Friday, drawing curious onlookers and news media before wildlife authorities removed it. The bear sluggishly ambled along streets and into… Read more » The post Bear That Wandered Into Yards… Continue Reading →

A federal judge on Friday dismissed a racketeering lawsuit brought by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes against the political research firm that enlisted a former British spy to look into Donald… Read more » The post Judge Dismisses Nunes Lawsuit Against… Continue Reading →

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has won the Nevada caucuses held today, cementing his frontrunner status. The socialist Sanders won by virtue of his massive support among Latinos and amid controversy surrounding his battle with a major Nevada workers union. Battling… Continue Reading →

Hundreds of supporters of Julian Assange marched through London on Saturday to pressure the U.K. government into refusing to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the United States to face spying… Read more » The post Marchers Support Assange Ahead of… Continue Reading →

COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — A court temporarily blocked the U.S. government from sending up to 50 people infected with a new virus from China to a Southern California city for quarantine after local officials argued that the plan lacked… Continue Reading →

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… Read more » The post FDA Approves Drug That Lowers… Continue Reading →

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… Read more » The post New Jersey Governor Reveals Likely… Continue Reading →

Bernie Sanders appeared headed to a decisive victory in the Democratic presidential caucuses in Nevada on Saturday, and early returns showed Joe Biden possibly landing a second-place finish that would… Read more » The post Sanders Heads to Big Win… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A winery in the Israeli settlement of Psagot has introduced a special label named for U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In a statement earlier this week, the West Bank winery thanked Pompeo for repudiating a State… Continue Reading →

A non-Jewish man fighting leukemia finally met the stranger – a Frum man from Lakewood New Jersey – who donated bone marrow to help save his life. The two men had the chance to meet for the first time at… Continue Reading →

Police body-camera footage emerged on Thursday showing part of the Dec. 10 exchange of fire with antisemitic shooters at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey. The three civilians who died in the attack were Leah Mindel Ferencz, 33,… Continue Reading →

GEORGETOWN (JNS) — A Republican vying for the U.S. House of Representatives this year, who is a graduate student at Georgetown University, has come under fire for past anti-Semitic social-media posts. Heerak Kim is running in Virginia’s 8th Congressional District…. Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] Join us this Monday night, February 24th at 8:30 PM for an evening of inspiration for women and High School girls on “Chinuch with Love” with the beloved Rabbanit Yemimah Mizrachi.This event is endorsed by Rebbetzin Kolodestsky (daughter of… Continue Reading →

Governor Phil Murphy says that doctors have recently found a cancerous tumor on his left kidney.  Murphy said that the tumor was found during a routine gastrointestinal checkup. He said that doctors caught the tumor at an early stage and… Continue Reading →

PALA MESA, Calif. (AP) — A charter bus swerved on a rain-slicked Southern California highway and rolled down an embankment Saturday, killing three people and injuring 18 others, authorities said. Several passengers were thrown from the bus, and one of… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said he’s seen no intelligence indicating that Russia is doing anything to try to help get the president re-elected. Robert O’Brien’s comments were released Saturday in a transcript of an interview… Continue Reading →

About 30 Beer Sheba eighth grade students who were in contact with South Korean tourists in Israel were instructed to self-quarantine after the South Koreans tested positive for the coronavirus on their return to South Korea, Israel’s Health Ministry stated… Continue Reading →



Former rebel leader Riek Machar was sworn in as South Sudan‘s first vice president on Saturday as part of a unity government with his former adversary President Salva Kiir, a… Read more » The post South Sudan’s Former Rebel Leader… Continue Reading →