Month February 2020

Shares were mixed Thursday in Asia after Wall Street recovered to record highs, with the Shanghai benchmark jumping nearly 2% after China’s central bank cut interest rates to help ease… Read more » The post Asian Stocks Mixed After Wall… Continue Reading →

El Al will renew flights to Standsted Airfield in London, offering low-cost fares in order to win back some business lost to low-cost competitors. Five weekly flights, Sunday through Thursday,… Read more » The post El Al to Renew Flights… Continue Reading →

Campaigning officially ended on Thursday for Iran‘s parliamentary election, state media said, a day before a vote seen as a litmus test of the popularity of the Islamic republic The… Read more » The post Iran Ends Week-Long Parliamentary Election… Continue Reading →

The Health Ministry reported Thursday morning that after another medical examination, a fourth Israeli was diagnosed with coronavirus on the Diamond Princess cruise ship moored near Tokyo. He is expected to… Read more » The post Fourth Israeli on Japanese Cruise… Continue Reading →

Internal Likud polls show that Binyamin Netanyahu is about three mandates from being able to form a government of 61 MKs after the March 2 elections – and he believes… Read more » The post Netanyahu to Arab Voters: I’m… Continue Reading →

During his questioning session by police in Mercaz Klal in Yerushalaim, Rabbi Eliezer Berland was transported to Shaare Zedek Hospital for emergency medical care. Rabbi Berland, who was arrested for the exploitation of sick and ill people, has had his… Continue Reading →

From the opening bell, Democrats unleashed an aggressive verbal assault on New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and raised new questions about Bernie Sanders’ take-no-prisoners politics in a contentious debate Wednesday night that threatened to scramble even further the party’s urgent… Continue Reading →

From the opening bell, Democrats unleashed an aggressive verbal assault on New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and raised new questions about Bernie Sanders’ take-no-prisoners politics in a contentious debate Wednesday… Read more » The post Bloomberg, Sanders Under Attack at… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, will become acting director of national intelligence, a move that puts a staunch Trump ally in charge of the nation’s 17 spy agencies,… Continue Reading →

If you earn six figures and haven’t been filing your taxes, the IRS may come knocking. The agency said Wednesday that it is stepping up its efforts to visit high-income taxpayers who failed in prior years to file their tax… Continue Reading →

JACKSON (JNS) — A Jewish-owned business in Jackson, N.J., was spray-painted on Friday with a large swastika and the words “white power.” The unknown name of the business is located near Lakewood, N.J. reported The Lakewood Scoop. Lakewood has a… Continue Reading →

Thousands of secular Jews began putting on tefillin recently as part of “Operation Ron” – an initiative named after Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai “in honor” of his recent ban of tefillin stands outside schools, initiated by Israeli journalist Boaz… Continue Reading →

Federal Reserve officials were mostly optimistic about the U.S. and global economies last month, though they noted the risk posed by China’s viral outbreak and said they were ready to keep their benchmark interest rate at its current low level… Continue Reading →

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Tossing aside tradition, California’s governor on Wednesday devoted his biggest platform to a single issue: solving a homelessness crisis that has overwhelmed the nation’s most populous state in an era of unprecedented prosperity. Governorstypically use their… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Get those creative juices flowing, Ben & Jerry’s Israel is having a Purim costume contest and first prize is a half-year’s supply of free ice cream. There’s no hamantaschen flavor, however. “Feel Purim knocking on the door?… Continue Reading →

Another tragic infant death occurred on Wednesday in Israel, this time in the northern city of Kiryat Bialik, just north of Haifa. The infant lost consciousness at his home and his parents called emergency services. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Ariel… Continue Reading →

LAS VEGAS (VINnews) – Six Democratic presidential candidates take the stage tonight in Las Vegas, Nevada, to make their case to voters only a few days out from the state’s caucuses on Saturday, February 22nd. The stage will be stacked… Continue Reading →

MELBOURNE (JTA) – A victim of child abuse while a student at a Jewish school in Australia was awarded over $800,000 in damages in a civil case brought against his abuser. Manny Waks was abused by a worker at the… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump asserts that he is the nation’s top cop, a title more typically accorded the attorney general. Even the Trump-cheerleading White House website sides with the attorney general, describing him as the “chief law enforcement officer of the… Continue Reading →

Six Democratic candidates – Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar – face off tonight at a debate being held in Las Vegas prior to the Nevada caucuses being held this Saturday. Watch the… Continue Reading →

Eight people were killed on Wednesday in two shooting incidents in a German city near Frankfurt and special forces were chasing the gunmen who fled in a car, police said.… Read more » The post Eight People Killed in Shootings… Continue Reading →