Month February 2020

The post Badatz Eidah Chareidis Calls for Yom Tefillah on Erev Rosh Chodesh for Coronavirus appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Worldwide Yom Tefillah Called for Erev Rosh Chodesh Elul Moatzos Gedolei and Chachmei HaTorah Issue Joint Call for… 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 pills like Lipitor and Crestor. The Food and Drug Administration… Continue Reading →

Debris has been found in the fuel tanks of 70% of grounded Boeing 737 Max jets that have been inspected by the company, Boeing confirmed on Saturday. Inspectors found the debris in 35 out of about 50 jets that were… Continue Reading →

A viral outbreak that began in China has infected nearly 78,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it. The latest figures reported by… Continue Reading →

Wells Fargo agreed Friday to pay $3 billion to settle criminal and civil investigations into a long-running practice whereby company employees opened millions of unauthorized bank accounts in order to meet unrealistic sales goals. Since the fake-accounts scandal came to… 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 charges. Famous backers, including Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Pretenders singer… Continue Reading →

A Palestinian man in the Old City of Yerushalayim tried to stab policemen on Shabbos morning in an attempted terror attack before he was shot dead by officers. Police said… Read more » The post Attempted Stabbing Attack in Old… Continue Reading →

An Arab terrorist approached Border Police officers near Sha’ar Haa’rayos waving a knife on Shabbos morning at about 11 a.m. and was eliminated by the officers. When the police officers saw the terrorist approaching with a knife, they ordered him… Continue Reading →

Iranian state media on Saturday announced the first partial results from the country’s parliamentary elections, indicating a strong showing by hard-liners in the capital Tehran, although authorities have not released… Read more » The post Iran’s Hard-Liners Take Early Lead… Continue Reading →

One of the 11 Israelis who were flown home after being quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan tested positive for the coronavirus, the first case to be reported inside Israel, officials said Friday. Dr. Gili Regev-Yochay, director… Continue Reading →

An entrance poll showed Bernie Sanders with the most support among Nevada voters entering caucus sites for the Democratic presidential contest on Saturday, and they favored a government-run Medicare for… Read more » The post Sanders Ahead in Entrance Poll… Continue Reading →

Sen. Bernie Sanders will win the Nevada caucuses, Fox News is projecting, furthering the democratic socialist’s lead over his Democratic rivals and raising the question as to whether he can be stopped on his path to the Democratic nomination. With… Continue Reading →

Health Ministry officials held an emergency meeting Motzoei Shabbos to discuss ways to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Israel, after the first cases of the virus were reported in… Read more » The post Ministry: Hundreds of Israelis May… Continue Reading →

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צרכי עמך ישראל מרובים SiyumTanach.org The world we live in today is very scary. There are struggles on just about every front, both in the public and private sector, in our communities and in our homes. Unfortunately, Klal Yisroel is… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Wall Street expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, should that influence the Fed’s decisions? Two Fed officials diverged on that issue in remarks Friday at a monetary policy conference in New York. The disagreement… Continue Reading →

POLAND (JNS) — The District Prosecutor’s Office in the city of Wrocław, Poland, indicted former priest Jacek Miedlar on hate speech and Holocaust-denial charges. Another charge claimed that he insulted the late Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a Catholic anti-Communist… Continue Reading →

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal authorities in Tennessee conducted searches Friday at the home and business addresses of Democratic state Sen. Katrina Robinson, the FBI said. Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman Joel Siskovic confirmed that agents executed search warrants at… Continue Reading →

A Jerusalem family was left reeling this month after the passing of mother of nine Nilli Elmaliach. She had been suffering from cancer for three years. Nilli’s death came less than a week after the engagement of her daughter Oshrit…. Continue Reading →

BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday suspended more punitive tariffs on imports of U.S. industrial goods in response to a truce in its trade war with Washington that threatened global economic growth. Financial markets have welcomed announcements by both sides… Continue Reading →