Month February 2020

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times) “I work hard shopping, cooking, and preparing the Shabbos meals.  The least you can do is make sure that we are singing beautiful Shabbos Zmiros!” This is a scene that… Continue Reading →

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Severalstates have begun picking up the tab for family planning services at clinics run by Planned Parenthood, which last year quit a $260 million federal funding program over a Trump administration rule prohibiting clinics from referring… Continue Reading →

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The salvage firm that has plucked silverware, china and gold coins from the wreckage of the Titanic now wants to recover the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Machine that transmitted the doomed ship’s increasingly frantic distress calls. Lawyers… Continue Reading →

Harav Moshe Mintz, shlita, magid shiur in Yeshiva Ner Yisrael in Baltimore is seen walking in the streets of Yerushalayim with his brother, Harav Chaim Mintz, shlita, mashgiach of Yeshiva of Staten Island and mara… Read more » The post Rav Moshe Mintz and Rav… Continue Reading →

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — As a presidential candidate in 2016, Donald Trump promised a $1 trillion infrastructure plan that would use tax incentives to spur private investment in public works projects. He has so far failed to persuade Congress… Continue Reading →

Intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign to help President Donald Trump get reelected, according to three officials familiar with the closed-door briefing.… Read more » The post Intel Officials Say Russia Is… Continue Reading →

Raucous Debate – The top Democratic candidates engaged in a heated and at times out-of-control debate in Las Vegas this week. The candidates mercilessly attacked each other, each one vying to break out of the pack and give themselves a… Continue Reading →

A federal appeals court in New York gave its approval Thursday to a $6.7 million award for nearly two dozen graffiti artists whose spray paintings at a once-famous site that… Read more » The post Appeals Court Approves $6.7M Award… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening lower again on Wall Street, putting the market on track for a weekly loss after two weeks of gains. Overseas markets were also weaker Friday after a rise in virus cases in South… Continue Reading →

Newly released video from a fatal shootout at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City shows the moment one of the shooters exited the van he drove there, took three steps… Read more » The post Video Released of Shootout at… Continue Reading →

Intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign to help President Donald Trump get reelected, according to three officials familiar with the closed-door briefing. Trump pushed back Friday accusing Democrats of launching a disinformation… Continue Reading →

U.S. home sales retreated 1.3% in January from the prior month, but low mortgage rates helped enable an increase in purchases from a year ago. The National Association of Realtors… Read more » The post U.S. Home Sales Fell 1.3%… Continue Reading →

Stocks fell in midday trading Friday and bond prices rose as investors fretted about more signs that a viral outbreak was spreading and a report showing a sudden weakening in… Read more » The post Stocks Fall, Bond Prices Rise… Continue Reading →

By Sandy Eller The morning dawned crisp and cloudy and overflowing with mixed emotions. Like marathoners nearing the finish line, participants at the Agudah’s 20th annual Yarchei Kallah were filled with anticipation as they readied themselves to soak up every… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home sales retreated 1.3% in January from the prior month, but low mortgage rates helped enable an increase in purchases from a year ago. The National Association of Realtors said Friday that sales of existing homes… Continue Reading →

Schools were shuttered, churches told worshipers to stay away and some mass gatherings were banned as cases of a new virus swelled Friday in South Korea, the newest front in… Read more » The post Virus Cases Soar in South… Continue Reading →

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is the largest prize in the calculations of any Democratic presidential candidate, and Bernie Sanders has been working the state for months, worrying his rivals. Sanders has been organizing intensively among Latinos and young voters,… Continue Reading →

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We regret to inform you of the passing of Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak, Morah D’Asra of Young Israel of Long Beach and clinical director of HASC Center. The levayah will… Read more » The post BDE: Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak… Continue Reading →