Month February 2020

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that same-sex couples and single men should be eligible for surrogacy in the country, saying its surrogacy law now is discriminatory. The court gave the government one year to change the law,… Continue Reading →

Monaco has agreed to grant the Simon Wiesenthal Center access to its state archives to learn more about the country’s role in the Holocaust, The Jewish Chronicle reported on Monday. In 1997, the center asked several countries for access to… Continue Reading →

Two sea lions rescued off the coast of California are making their debut at a new home in a Hawaii aquatic park. The sea lions, named Niblet and Brawler, are… Read more » The post Rescued California Sea Lions Now… Continue Reading →

Thousands upon thousands of people are now at the Kosel for a Yom Tefillah joined by Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky and other Gedolim ahead of the elections next week. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem) The post HAPPENING NOW: Thousands Pack… Continue Reading →

The Yamina party on Thursday demanded an apology from Blue and White MK Yair Lapid, who compared Rabbi Rafi Peretz to a supporter of terrorism. Speaking on possible coalition scenarios,… Read more » The post Yamina Indignant Over Lapid Slur… Continue Reading →

Following up on the amazing success of its Start the Daf initiative that had nearly 7,000 learning the first daf of Masechtas Berachos in memory of Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz zt”l, Klal Govoah will be hosting yet another record-breaking shiur as… Continue Reading →

BALTIMORE (AP) — The disgraced former mayor of Baltimore was sentenced to three years in federal prison Thursday for arranging fraudulent sales of her self-published children’s books to nonprofits and foundations to promote her political career and fund her run… Continue Reading →

PARIS (AP) — Powerful wind in Paris sent a tree crashing down onto a car near the Eiffel Tower on Thursday, killing the driver. The man driving the car on the picturesque embankment of the Seine River was the only… Continue Reading →

CROWN HEIGHTS (VINnews) — The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a hate crime against a Jewish boy that took place in Crown Heights this week. A black male approached the victim in the Crunch Fitness gym located on… Continue Reading →

A Jewish boy was the victim of a hate attack in Crown Heights this week. CHI reports that the victim was using a piece of exercise equipment at the “Crunch Gym” this past Tuesday, when he was suddenly attacked. The… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Americans view Bernie Sanders as the least religious of four Democratic presidential front-runners, a survey released Thursday found. Sixty percent of the 6,395 respondents to the online poll described the Jewish Vermont senator as “not too religious”… Continue Reading →

Heathrow Airport’s plans to increase capacity of Europe’s biggest travel hub by over 50% were stalled Thursday when a British court said the government failed to consider its commitment to… Read more » The post U.K. Court Blocks Heathrow Airport… Continue Reading →

In his budget address yesterday, Governor Phil Murphy proposed increasing the funding for the New Jersey Nonpublic Security Grant Program (NJ-NSGP), more than doubling it from its current $2 million to $5 million. Unfortunately, events over the past year have… Continue Reading →

BROOKLYN (VINnews) – The New York Lottery today announced one second-prize ticket for the February 26 Powerball drawing was sold in BROOKLYN. The ticket is worth a guaranteed $1,000,007. The ticket was purchased at NEW ANCHOR GROC & HALAL MEAT… Continue Reading →

Next Sunday, in honor of both the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo and the 110th Yahrzeit of Hagaon Rav Eliezer Gordon zt”l, founder of the famed Telshe Yeshiva, the Roshei Yeshiva of Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo will… Continue Reading →

The Israeli government gave approvals for plans to build 1,739 housing units in Yehudah and Shomron on Thursday. Of the 1,739 homes given the green light by the Civil Administration’s… Read more » The post Government Approves Plans for 1700… Continue Reading →

U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today joined Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) and the entire New Jersey delegation in demanding Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chad Wolf explain why the recently-released DHS budget… Continue Reading →

Two-and-half months after a deadly attack on the Jersey City Kosher Supermarket, the business’s owner, whose wife was among those killed, has opened a new market. The new supermarket has… Read more » The post New Kosher Supermarket Opens in… Continue Reading →

A website called “סכנה מביתנו” (“Danger from [Yisrael] Beiteinu]” is beginning to scare Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman. The website, run by former Russian refusenik Natalia Rotenberg, opens the Hebrew-speaking public’s eyes to the depths that Liberman is willing to… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — About 4 in 10 American adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 10 is severely so, government researchers said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention findings come from a 2017-18 health survey that measures… Continue Reading →

ROCKLAND COUNTY(VINnews) — An arrest warrant was issued Monday against Rabbi Yehuda Oshri after he failed to appear in court despite being subpoenaed to testify in a local trial between the East Ramapo School District and the NAACP. Oshry failed… Continue Reading →