Month February 2020

Mrs. Tova Saks, one of the first to move to Haverstraw in November 2016, recalls how the community got started. “We were looking to buy a house in Monsey, and… Read more » The post A Community Grows in Haverstraw… Continue Reading →

The next phase of Ethiopian immigration, 43 out of a total of almost 400 people, is set to begin next week, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu‏‏ told a campaign crowd… Read more » The post Ethiopians to Begin Arriving Before… Continue Reading →

A glitch in the MTA’s bus-mounted camera enforcement system resulted in hundreds of erroneous violations issued to motorists for parking in the B44 bus lane on Nostrand Avenue at Avenue… Read more » The post Councilmembers Deutsch and Louis Help… Continue Reading →

A glitch in the MTA’s bus-mounted camera enforcement system resulted in hundreds of erroneous violations issued to motorists for parking in the B44 bus lane on Nostrand Avenue at Avenue… Read more » The post Councilmembers Deutsch and Louis Help… Continue Reading →

Small business owners have received some upbeat news on the economy this month. Retail sales figures released Friday showed that consumers were inspired by unseasonably warm weather to spend on… Read more » The post U.S. Small Businesses Are Getting… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has gone on a clemency blitz, commuting the 14-year prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and pardoning former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik, among a long list of others. Trump also told reporters… Continue Reading →

When the new decade was ushered in on Jan. 1, 2020, it also marked Ocean County’s 170th anniversary. “Certainly, Ocean County has seen great change since it was first created by a bill signed into law by Gov. Daniel Haines… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he knows the identity of the author known as “Anonymous,” the senior administration official who wrote an inside-the-White House account that painted the president as inept and dangerous. Trump’s claim comes as… Continue Reading →

Sen. Chris Murphy on Tuesday defended a weekend meeting he held with Iran’s foreign minister in Europe, after his actions were questioned in conservative media and as President Donald Trump… Read more » The post U.S. Lawmaker Defends Meeting With… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has asked President Reuven Rivlin to expunge his criminal record. If Rivlin agrees, Olmert would have his conviction on moral turpitude erased, clearing the way for a possible return to a… Continue Reading →

How the former Rav of Denver Planted the Seeds for a Taharah Revolution in Eretz Yisrael One night Rabbi Efrayim Zalman Halpern, zt”l, was walking along a deserted street in Denver, Colorado. He realized that a large truck had pulled… Continue Reading →

The Justice Department has appointed U.S. attorneys in New York and Pennsylvania to coordinate federal investigations into Ukraine-related matters, including new information collected by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy… Read more » The post DOJ Taps U.S. Attorneys to… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump has gone on a clemency blitz, commuting the 14-year prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and pardoning former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik, among a long list of others. Trump also told reporters that he has… Continue Reading →

Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that the state will have to bail out El Al Airlines, which is reeling from financial losses due to a precipitous decline in… Read more » The post Smotrich: State Should Bail Out… Continue Reading →

CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday commuted the 14-year prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted in a wide-ranging political corruption case just months after he appeared on Trump’s reality TV show. The president… Continue Reading →

Sanad al-Turman, who carried out the ramming attack in Jerusalem about two weeks ago, recorded a video of himself reading a poem about murdering Israelis and uploaded it to the Internet prior to the attack. Following his arrest by Israeli… Continue Reading →

Commenting on the announcement that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu‏‏ trial for allegations of corruption will start on March 17,” Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz said “This is a… Read more » The post Gantz: Netanyahu on Trial Can’t… Continue Reading →

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Prof. Dariuz Stola discusses the Polish Government’s campaign to dismiss him from POLIN Museum For over two years, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews has attracted wide… Read more » The post “Marginalizing Me Came at a… Continue Reading →

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, who has said she plans to be president within the next two decades, said Monday that “of course” she would be honored to be the vice presidential pick of whoever secures the 2020 nomination. “The first… Continue Reading →