Month February 2020

By: Shimmy Blum. Just over two months after the tragic Jersey City massacre, the “who’s who” of top law enforcement officials at the state, county and local level came to Lakewood to collaborate on enhancing security at the governmental and grassroots levels…. Continue Reading →

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — About 500 passengers left the cruise ship Diamond Princess on Wednesday at the end of a much-criticized two-week quarantine aboard the vessel that failed to stop the spread of the new virus among passengers and crew…. Continue Reading →

The cheers of celebration have faded. The waving of roses has ceased. Having finally reached a friendly port in Cambodia willing to accept them after nearly two weeks of uncertainty at sea, hundreds of cruise ship passengers eyed warily over… Continue Reading →

State prosecutors are expected to recommend to Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit the opening of a criminal investigation into a cybersecurity company formerly owned by Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. The… Read more » The post Former Gantz Company to Face… Continue Reading →

Israeli diplomats and emissaries working abroad began voting to elect the members of the 23d Knesset on Wednesday in the third election in the past year, about two weeks before voting will commence in Israel on March 2. Israel’s ambassador… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] What recipe do your friends call and ask you for? What dish makes your kids excited when you tell them it’s for dinner? We’d love to know! Kosher.com is running MyKosher, a recipe contest for everyone that cooks to… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JNS) — With Israel’s March 2 general elections just around the corner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday challenged his main rival, Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, to a live debate. During an interview with Israel’s… Continue Reading →

“There are difficult days ahead and it is possible that we will be required to take dramatic steps and make painful decisions,” El Al CEO Gonen Usishkin wrote in a recent email to company employees. The coronavirus pandemic, which is… Continue Reading →

Opposition leader Benny Gantz claims that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu‏‏ debate challenge is just “spin,” but most Israelis take it seriously, according to a poll released on Wednesday night. Sixty… Read more » The post Poll: 60 Percent Want a… Continue Reading →

It is a timeless ma’amar chazal that is familiar to all, but participants at the Agudah’s Yerushalayim Yarchei Kallah saw the words avira d’Eretz Yisroel machkim coming to life on Tuesday as they began day two of their learning. Inhaling… Continue Reading →

Legislation introduced by New Jersey State Senator Sam Thompson would hang up the phone on telemarketers hiding their identities by spoofing the name or phone number displaying on caller ID. Telemarketers have mastered technology that allows them to interrupt our… Continue Reading →

After the Town of Clarkstown prevented Ateres Bais Yaacov Academy of Rockland (“ABY”) from purchasing a property for use as a religious institution, ABY filed a federal complaint against the… Read more » The post Ateres Bais Yaacov Academy of… Continue Reading →

LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) – 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… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump has ousted the Pentagon’s top policy official who had certified last year that Ukraine had made enough anti-corruption progress to justify the Trump administration’s release of congressionally authorized aid to Kyiv in its conflict against Russian-backed separatists…. Continue Reading →

In times of darkness, human nature is to look for hope. In today’s world, where there are so many displays of selfishness and greed, it uplifts us to look at the heroes of klal yisroel. The individuals who despite life’s… Continue Reading →

Former Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich gushed about Donald Trump Wednesday, a day after the Republican president commuted his sentence for political corruption. Blagojevich spoke to reporters outside his family home in Chicago during his first scheduled press event since… Continue Reading →

Hamodia is saddened to report the passing of Mrs. Sura Goldstein. Sura was born in Boro Park in 1924 to her esteemed parents, Reb Moshe Yankel and Devora Liba Biston,… Read more » The post BD’E – Mrs. Sura Goldstein,… Continue Reading →

What do you know about TikTok? TikTok was the most downloaded app of 2019. With over one billion users, this popular social media app gives users (mostly kids) the opportunity to share short videos with friends, family or the entire… Continue Reading →

Former Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich gushed about Donald Trump Wednesday, a day after the Republican president commuted his sentence for political corruption. Blagojevich spoke to reporters outside his family… Read more » The post Blagojevich Praises Trump From Chicago… Continue Reading →

SPRING VALLEY (VINnews) — The Monsey community was shaken on Tuesday after the news broke that a fatal stabbing had occurred inside the Finkelstein Library in Spring Valley. As much as such a heinous crime can never ever be justified,… Continue Reading →