Month February 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general said Sunday the state will not appeal a judge’s decision approving the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. Attorney General Letitia James and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra led a coalition of 14… Continue Reading →

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has temporarily halted the site preparation for Tesla Inc.’s first electric car factory in Europe. The Higher Administrative Court for Berlin-Brandenburg ordered Tesla to stop clearing trees on the wooded site near Berlin until… Continue Reading →

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times The Klausenberger Rebbe zatzal was a remarkable individual who started a Yeshiva in Williamsburg called, “Sheiris HaPleitah” – for those young men who had lost everything in the holocaust. People… Continue Reading →

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump gave an election-year embrace to NASCAR and its fans Sunday when he became the second president ever to attend the Daytona 500. The presidential motorcade took to the track to join in… Continue Reading →

Naama Issachar, who was pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin last month for drug charges and returned to Israel after being imprisoned in Russia since April, continues to light Shabbos candles every week, a practice she began in the Russian… Continue Reading →

A Rebbe in a Kiryas Joel Yeshiva was arrested on Friday. The crime? Hitting a child. Sources tell YWN that the 13-year-old child was hit by his Rebbe, and the child immediately called the police to file a complaint. The… Continue Reading →

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that he doesn’t believe the U.S. will pursue war with his country, because it will harm President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection bid. Rouhani said that Trump knows that war with… Continue Reading →

David Ourlicht was a college student, walking down a street near campus, when he became one of millions of New Yorkers swept up in the era of stop and frisk. A police officer accosted Ourlicht, deeming suspicious a bulge in… Continue Reading →

American passengers were taken off a cruise liner on Sunday to fly home after being quarantined for two weeks off Japan, while China said the rate of new coronavirus cases… Read more » The post Americans Disembark From Virus-Hit Cruise;… Continue Reading →

BERLIN (AP) — Record high temperatures reportedly measured in Antarctica will take months to verify, the U.N. weather agency said Sunday. A spokesman for the World Meteorological Organization said the measurements made by researchers from Argentina and Brazil earlier this… Continue Reading →

Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz is vowing to form a government that will include neither the indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor the predominantly Arab parties in Parliament. In a series of TV interviews two weeks before national elections, Gantz… Continue Reading →

New York Courts Snowmobiling Tourists With Free Weekend ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – New York is courting winter tourists with a fee-free weekend for out-of-state snowmobilers. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the… Read more » The post Regional Briefs – February 16,… Continue Reading →

A mass tefillah gathering took place at the Kosel on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. for those affected by the coronavirus. The gathering was organized by Harav Shmuel Eliyahu, the Chief Rabbi of Tzfat, together with the Israeli branch of the… Continue Reading →

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that he doesn’t believe the U.S. will pursue war with his country, because it will harm President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection bid. Rouhani said that Trump knows that war with Iran will “ruin” his… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Gilad Shalit, the former IDF soldier captured by Hamas and held in captivity in the Gaza Strip for more than five years, got engaged over the weekend. A selfie featuring a smiling Shalit, 33, and girlfriend Nitzan… Continue Reading →

Yeshiva of Miami, under the leadership of Rabbi Dovid Wechsler, strives to provide our talmidim with a satisfying Yeshiva experience which affords them the opportunity to grow and develop as b’nei Torah, each at their own pace. The Yeshiva is… Continue Reading →

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett spoke about the security situation in Israel in an interview on Channel 12 News on Motzei Shabbos: “Three months after I became defense minister, the amount of launched rockets fell by 80% and the riots by… Continue Reading →

A judge has ordered the developers of a condo tower under construction in New York City at 200 Amsterdam Avenue to remove several floors from the top of the building… Read more » The post Judge: Top floors of New… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — David Ourlicht was a college student, walking down a street near campus, when he became one of millions of New Yorkers swept up in the era of stop and frisk. A police officer accosted Ourlicht, deeming… Continue Reading →

If there is a state where Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg could expect a return on investment, it is Virginia. By investing millions on state legislative races, Bloomberg helped Democrats take back the statehouse last fall. With full control of… Continue Reading →