Month February 2020

A new coronavirus case in California could be the first in the U.S. that has no known connection to travel abroad or another known case, a possible sign the virus is spreading in a U.S. community, health officials said. The… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Full disclosure: This is the third time in the past year that we have published this article. With only minor changes. That’s because on Monday, March 2, for the third time in the past 12 months, Israelis… Continue Reading →

  Over a thousand graduates, parents, and friends of Nesivos Chachma gathered at Binyanei HaUmah for a historic fundraiser to guarantee the future of the yeshiva. Throughout the event live footage was broadcast in the hall of the hundreds of… Continue Reading →

Governor Murphy’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget proposal calls for Lakewood to receive nearly $23.5 million in state aid.  Included in the budget is a total of $23,472,641 in school district aid, with $14,958,782 in Equalization Aid, $3,052,174 in transportation aid,… Continue Reading →

Stocks are falling sharply on Wall Street as investors continue to flee risky assets as countries take increasingly drastic measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak and as more big-name companies… Read more » The post Markets Shudder Again on Virus… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (AP) — A former housekeeper at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence is suing the leader’s wife Sara for pain and suffering allegedly caused during her employment there, the housekeeper’s attorney said Thursday. Opheer Shimson says his client… Continue Reading →

PM Benjamin Netanyahu arrived on Thursday to visit MDA’s National Operations Center in Kiryat Ono, where a joint call center for Magen David Adom and the Ministry of Health was established on Saturday night specifically to deal with the Coronavirus…. Continue Reading →

BERLIN (AP) — He led Germany’s army in World War I and served for nearly a decade as the country’s president, but thanks to his role in Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, Paul von Hindenburg is an honorary… Continue Reading →

Saudi Arabia on Thursday banned foreign pilgrims from entering the kingdom to visit Islam’s holiest sites over the new coronavirus, potentially disrupting the plans of millions of faithful ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and as the annual… Continue Reading →

Lebanon’s president Thursday inaugurated the Mediterranean country’s first offshore exploratory drilling for oil and gas, calling it a “historic day” for the cash-strapped country. Michel Aoun spoke aboard the drill… Read more » The post Lebanon Begins ‘Historic’ Offshore Oil… Continue Reading →

Russia successfully test-launched its Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile from a military vessel for the first time early last month, the TASS news agency said on Thursday, citing two military… Read more » The post Russia Conducts First Ship-Based Hypersonic… Continue Reading →

New York’s governor says he will ask state lawmakers in coming days to approve $40 million to help state health officials respond to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, told reporters Wednesday that the funding will help… Continue Reading →

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s governor says he believes President Donald Trump is punishing his home state for being too liberal. In the past few weeks, New York has come out on the losing end on a series of… Continue Reading →

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked all elementary, middle and high schools nationwide on Thursday to close until late March to help control the spread of the new virus in the country. The request caught many local… Continue Reading →

I recently attended a shalom zachar for the son of a friend and found myself sitting next to a mutual friend who happens to be a school administrator in Lakewood. Knowing that now is the time of year when unplaced… Continue Reading →

MADRID (AP) — Israel’s ambassador to Spain has denounced a Carnival parade performance in a small town that featured men and women dressed up like Jewish Holocaust victims and Nazi soldiers. Rodica Radian-Gordon said in a tweet Wednesday that the… Continue Reading →

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is bracing his supporters for a difficult stretch, with the sobering assertion that front-runner Bernie Sanders will likely emerge from next week’s Super Tuesday contests well ahead in the race for delegates. The disclosure, made… Continue Reading →

The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.1% in the final quarter of last year, but damage from the spreading coronavirus is likely depressing growth in the current… Read more » The post Economy Grew at 2.1% in… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] 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… Continue Reading →

Reports from Syria Thursday afternoon said that an Israeli drone attacked and destroyed a vehicle on the Syrian side of the Golan border. One person was killed in the attack.… Read more » The post Syria Claims Israel Eliminated Hezbollah… Continue Reading →

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An Israeli drone fired a missile at a car in southern Syria on Thursday, killing one person, Syrian state TV reported. The state-run media outlet gave no further details on the attack near the southern village… Continue Reading →